Population data critical for planning and development. With current estimates placing 43% of the world's 8.2 billion people in rural areas, the new findings have far-reaching consequences ...

Rural men are dying earlier than their urban counterparts, and they're spending fewer of their later years in good health, ...

Earlier in 2025, wildfires in southern California killed 30 people, destroyed more than 18,000 homes and burned more than ...

The Center for Rural Pennsylvania defines urban and rural counties as those with a population density at or above, or below, 261 people per square mile, respectively. Forty-eight of Pennsylvania's ...

As of now, Jiaxing has launched a total of 394 urban-rural bus routes, with 1,583 vehicles in operation, achieving full coverage of urban-rural public transport across all 62 towns and 740 ...

While most gut microbiome research focuses on high-income countries, a groundbreaking study led by two scientists from South ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal ...

A global study published Wednesday in Nature found that the average height of urban children and adolescents ages 5 to 19 is now slightly shorter than that of their peers in rural areas in most ...

Nonmetropolitan, or rural, counties grew by 134,000 residents between 2023 and 2024, reversing a decade-long trend of population decline that happened between 2010 and 2020.

The map shows the location of the 307 rural areas analysed in the study. The reported populations in the graphic were found to be underestimated by between 53 and 84 percent. Global population ...

With an aging population and fewer physicians available, the burden on rural communities is set to grow. Rural men are dying earlier than their urban counterparts, and they're spending fewer of ...