ARCU 3100 Lecture 3: LECTURE.THREE
17 Apr 2018
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During the same people rate of comparing 30% of 2. 5 billion with 54 percent of 7. 6 billion. Increase in global population since 1950: 5 billion. Increase in urban population since 1950: 4. 1 billion. Urban growth roughly equal to overall population growth since 1955. Population growth associated primarily with rural areas. Vast majority of population growth since 1950 occurred in asia and africa. Birth rate are much lower in cities than in rural areas. Birthrates in most developed countries are at or below 0. Dropping of fertility rate hints at the notion of a larger urbanized country. The idea of urbanizing the country in larger cities gives an ability to decrease. Resources become at large a factor of not necessarily population growth the urbanization of the country (for example: saudi arabia, libya) High level of urbanization results in lower increase of rate of urbanization.
