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Correlation of rural population and urban land area by year in the United States

Updated: 94d ago

This scatter chart displays rural population (people) against urban land area (km²) in the United States. The data is about countries per year.

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This chart uses 3 fields, including filters:

  • Country: Name of country.
  • Urban Land Area (km²): Urban land area in square kilometers, based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons.
  • Rural Population (people): Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages.

This chart is based on data from: World Bank.

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