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World Population Becomes More Urban Than Rural

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the country-sprawls dept.

biohack writes "A major demographic shift took place on Wednesday, May 23, 2007: For the first time in human history, the earth's population is more urban than rural. According to scientists from North Carolina State University and the University of Georgia, on that day, a predicted global urban population of 3,303,992,253 exceeded that of 3,303,866,404 rural people. In the US, the tipping point from a majority rural to a majority urban population came early in the late 1910s."

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  1. Re:Who is gonna milk the cows by Fengpost · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, that is why they invented the "Voluntary Milking System." Yes, it runs on Linux!

    http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4275702675.html

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  2. Re:Stats all the way to the single digits by Yvanhoe · · Score: 3, Informative

    More plausible is that this is a projection : they know a rough estimate of the population at Jan 1st 2007 and they know the birth rate, death rate, the rate of urbanization, the differences in fertility and life expectancy in cities and countryside and they get a non-round number, not precise but that bears some information nonetheless.

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