In the last decade the overall increase in population has been particularly large at about 70 million people, which is larger than the urban population of all countries except Brazil, China, Indonesia, Russia, and the United States.
Therefore, even though India’s level of urbanisation continues to be  24  BIS Review 106/2006  low and its urban population growth rate is not among the fastest in the world, the magnitude of urbanisation in India per se is large.