56%
Russia has the largest rural population with a total rural population of about 37,650,000 of its citizens living in rural areas. The country with the highest percentage of its citizens living in rural areas is Bosnia and Herzegovina with 51.4%.
India has the largest percentage of rural population, with over 65% of its population living in rural areas.
Approximately 85% of the population in Ghana have access to electricity. However, there are disparities between urban and rural areas, with electricity access being more limited in rural regions.
Percentage of rural and urban population in Pakistan is 72% to 28% in 2010.
59%
Greying rural population refers to the increasing proportion of elderly individuals in rural areas. It is a demographic trend characterized by a higher number of aging residents in rural communities. This phenomenon has implications for healthcare, social services, and economic development in these areas.
Urbanization is the process of increasing the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas. This shift is typically driven by factors such as industrialization, economic opportunities, and population growth.
Overall, 2008 is listed at the date when globally the people in Urban Population centers equaled those living in rural areas with about 3.3 billion living in urban areas, and 3.3 billion in rural areas.
As of 2021, it is estimated that around 46% of the global population lives in rural areas. However, this percentage can vary greatly by country, with some nations having a much higher proportion of their population living in rural areas compared to others.
Conditions in Ghana are often much better in the towns and cities than in the rural areas. Rural areas include primitive huts and there are very few huts that have running water or electricity.
By the end of the 1700s, the majority of people living in Colonial America resided in rural areas, with around 90% of the population living outside of urban centers. Rural life was predominant, with agriculture being the main occupation for many colonists.
The communists provided the peasants living in rural areas with weapons.