Number of people living in urban and rural areas, World
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- Annual growth rate of urban agglomerations with 300,00 inhabitants or more
- Annual growth rate of urban population share
- Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
- Employment in agriculture vs. urban population
- Minimum number of inhabitants for a settlement to qualify as an urban area
- Number of countries with a given minimum urban population threshold
- Number of people living in the capital cityUnited Nations
- Number of people living in urban slum households
- Population density
- Population density of the capital city
- Population density of the world's largest cities
- Population density vs. GDP per capita
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million
- Population living in urban and rural areasHYDE
- Population of cities, towns and villages
- Population the world's largest citiesUnited Nations
- Population with basic handwashing facilities, urban vs. rural
- Sanitation facilities usage in rural areas
- Sanitation facilities usage in urban areas
- Share of children who are stunted in urban and rural areas
- Share of people living in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million
- Share of people living in urban and rural areasUN
- Share of people living in urban areasEuropean Commission
- Share of population living in cities, towns and villages
- Share of population living in multidimensional poverty: urban vs. rural areasCurrent estimates, scatterplot
- Share of the population living in urban areasUN
- Share of the population living in urban areasUN and HYDE projections
- Share of the population living in urbanized areasHYDE
- Share of the population living in urbanized areas vs. GDP per capita
- Share of the rural and urban population with access to clean fuels for cooking
- Share of the rural population living near a road
- Share of the urban and rural population using safely managed drinking water services
- Share of the urban and rural population using safely managed sanitation services
- Share of the urban population living in slums
- Share of the urban population who live in the largest city
- Share of urban population by agglomeration size
- Share of urban population by source
- Share of urban population living in inadequate housing
- Share of urban population with convenient access to an open public space
- Share of urban population with convenient access to open public spaces
- Share of urban populations with convenient access to public transport
- Share using safely managed drinking water, rural vs. urban
- Urban and rural population projected to 2050HYDE & UN projections
- Urban area over the long-termHYDE
- Urban land area
- Urban policies that respond to population dynamics
- Urban population vs. female labor force participation rate