Social Sciences and History / Unit 12 SSH 1119 short lesson, about 20 seconds
More Than Half Urban: The Continental Table
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The idea
The United Nations reports that more than half the world's population lives in urban areas, fifty-four and a half percent in twenty sixteen, though thresholds run from a thousand to fifty thousand. By continent: North America eighty-one percent, Europe seventy-four, Asia forty-eight, Africa forty-one.
In practice
Urbanization: population concentrating in metropolitan areas.
Where people slip
The UN's figures, dated.
Your place on the trail
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