Share of people living in urban areas
The urban area is the share of people living in cities and towns, as estimated by the European Commission using satellite imagery and census data. This differsfrom UN figures, which rely on national urban definitions.
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- Access to electricity, urban vs. rural
- 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 cityUN
- Number of people living in urban and rural areasUN
- Number of people living in urban slum households
- Population density
- Population density by city
- Population density of the capital city
- 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 cities
- 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 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