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• Urbanization

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• Access to electricity, urban vs. rural
• City population
• Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
• Employment in agriculture vs. urban population
• Level of urbanization vs. GNP per capita
• Minimum number of inhabitants for a settlement to classify as an urban area
• Number of countries with a given minimum urban population threshold
• Number of people living in the capital city
• Number of people living in urban and rural areasUN (1960 to 2017)
• People living in urban slum households
• Population density
• Population density by city
• Population density vs. GDP per capita
• Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million
• Population living in urban and rural areasUN
• Share of people living in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million
• Share of people living in urban areasUN
• Share of people living in urban areasEuropean Commission (2015)
• Share of population in multidimensional poverty: Urban vs. rural
• Share of the population living in urban areas
• Share of the population living in urbanized areas
• Share of the rural population living near a road
• Share of the urban population living in slums
• Share of the urban population who live in the largest city
• Urban and rural populations in the United StatesUS Census Bureau
• Urban area over the long-termHYDE
• Urban land area
• Urban policies that respond to population dynamics
• Urban population vs. GDP per capita
• Urban population vs. female labor force participation rate
• Urbanization over the past 500 yearsHistorical sources & UN