New UN report reveals global population becoming more urban
People's Daily Online - China
The 2009 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects report, launched on Thursday by the UN Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) at the UN Headquarters in New York, said that with 50.5 percent, or 3.5 billion people worldwide living in cities in 2010, the global population as a whole is becoming more urban and less rural.
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