Urban Settlement: Data, Measures, and Trends

David Bloom, David Canning (), Günther Fink, Tarun Khanna and Patrick Salyer
Additional contact information
David Bloom: Harvard School of Public Health
Tarun Khanna: Harvard Business School
Patrick Salyer: Harvard School of Public Health

PGDA Working Papers from Program on the Global Demography of Aging

Abstract: This paper examines data on urbanization. We review the most commonly used data sources and highlight the difficulties inherent in defining and measuring the size of urban versus rural populations. We show that differences in the measurement of urban populations across countries and over time are significant and discuss the methods used for these measurements, as well as for projecting urbanization. We also analyze recent trends and patterns in urbanization. Finally, we describe the principal channels of urbanization and examine their relative contributions to the global urbanization process.

Keywords: urbanization; urbanization data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/pgda/WorkingPapers/2007/PGDA_WP_29.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gdm:wpaper:2907

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in PGDA Working Papers from Program on the Global Demography of Aging
Series data maintained by Günther Fink ().