 DIFFERENCES IN THE STANDARDS LIVING IN RURAL AND URBAN AREASNorbert Novák ()
Annals of Faculty of Economics, 2020, vol. 1, issue 1, 79-88 Abstract: Despite significant differences between developing and developed countries, health and access to health are of key importance worldwide. Even in countries where the majority of the population lives in rural areas, some resources are concentrated in cities. In the case of developing and developed countries, we can see significant differences between urban and rural areas, as the difference in development is even more acute in this respect. The reason for this phenomenon is that in developed countries the phase of urban explosion took a long time and affected fewer people than in developing countries. Overpopulation and changing habits are putting great pressure on both agriculture and rural areas. Explosive, uncoordinated growth can also lead to a significant increase in land use and a disproportionate spread of urban areas, which must be avoided at all costs. There is a strong correlation between population growth and urbanisation. As the population grows, the proportion of the urban population continues to grow, thereby increasingly contributing to the depopulation of rural areas. Changes in the world’s population also have a direct impact on the natural environment. There is no doubt that population growth is one of the main drivers of global change. Urbanisation is accompanied by a transformation of lifestyle and consumption patterns. Combined with income growth, urbanisation is accelerating dietary diversification in developing countries. While consumption of cereals and other crops will decline, consumption of vegetables, fruits, meat, dairy products and fish will increase. The growing demand for semi-processed or ready-to-eat foods is causing further concentration in food chains. The rapid change in eating habits is associated with urbanisation, among other things. People who give up farming are moving en masse to cities where their eating habits are changing. Even today, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and their proportion will inevitably continue to grow in the future. While the proportion of the urban population is increasing, rural regions continue to be home to the majority of the poor, where hunger is not uncommon. Nowadays, more and more people are studying the changes in the global population and the resulting situation. Keywords: Population; Working; Population density; Health status; Health; Urbanisation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ora:journl:v:1:y:2020:i:1:p:79-88 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Annals of Faculty of Economics from University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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