According to a survey on urbanization, the population in Myanmar’s cities and towns is expected to increase from 15.4 million, or 30 per cent of the country’s total population, in 2014 to 20 million in 2030.
ON 4 January, 1948, the Union of Burma successfully freed itself from the clutches of colonialists and achieved sovereignty. However, the nation had almost been reduced to ashes after becoming a war zone during the Second World War.