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Across most upper-middle-income countries – in Eastern Europe, East Asia, North and Southern Africa, and South America – between 50% to 80% of people do. In many low to lower-middle-income countries, the majority still live in rural areas. But this is changing quickly.
May 16, 2018 · The 2018 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects produced by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) notes that future increases in the size of...
Total urban and rural population, given as estimates to 2023, and UN projections to 2050. Projections are based on the UN World Urbanization Prospects and its median fertility scenario.
rural populations for 233 countries and areas of the world and for close to 1,900 urban settlements with 300,000 inhabitants or more in 2018, as published in World Urbanization Prospects: The...
Jan 17, 2024 · Share of the total population living in urban areas, given as estimates by HYDE until 2023 and UN projections through 2050, using the median fertility scenario for future urbanization trends.
Sep 3, 2019 · It’s expected that over a third of the projected urban growth between now and 2050 will occur in just three countries: India, China, and Nigeria. By 2050, it is projected that India could add 416 million urban dwellers, China 255 million, and Nigeria 189 million. Urbanization and its complications.
Nov 4, 2020 · Overall, more people in the world live in urban than in rural setting since 2010. In 2020, 56.2 percent of the world population was urban. Half of these people lived in towns of less than 500,000 inhabitants. The percent of people living in urban areas has risen in every content. Image: Statista.
