16 August 2010

In 100 years we’ll be a fully urban species
Deccan Chronicle - India

The population of the world’s countryside will stop growing around 2019, according to the UN Population Division’s more conservative estimates, and by 2050 will have fallen by 600 million because of migration to the city. India’s rural population, one of the last to stop growing, is set to peak in 2025 at 909 million, and shrink to 743 million by 2050...(16 August 2010)

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