Data Map Shows How Urban Population Is Growing Rapidly Around the Globe

We all might assume that the world’s urban population has grown considerably in recent decades. Now, UNICEF has provided some visual documentation of this trend, in the form of a data map that displays country-level population shifts from 1950 to 2050. The map shows that in the United States, the urban population in 2010 was roughly 255 million people (the urban population was 82% of the total population) and will be home to 365 million urbanites in 2050 (90% of the total population). In 1950, the United States was 64% urban. Other nations contain urban populations that are growing at a similarly rapid pace.

According to data about children living in rural and urban areas in California, 92% of children in California live in urban regions compared to 8% that live in rural areas.

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