Currently, approximately 56% of the global population, totaling 4.4 billion people, resides in urban centers. This demographic shift is important as cities account for over 80% of global GDP.

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 ...

In the past four years, he said, more than 50% of rural counties have seen their population decline. Vilsack pointed to rural America's diminishing impact as a reason Congress was unable to pass a ...

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

Projections based on national definitions or a building-based definition come to far higher projections of changes in urban population and land as compared to projections based on the Degree of ...

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 ...

The study stops short of offering a new global population estimate, but says even in the most accurate dataset, the rural population is “underestimated by half compared to reported figures”.

In this article, we will take a look at the 20 countries with the largest rural population in the world. If you want to skip our discussion on the rural economy trends, you can go directly to the ...

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 ...