Question

What percentage of the human population lived in cities 100 years ago?

Answer 1

By 1800, still over 90 percent of the global (and country-level) population lived in rural areas. Urbanization in the United States began to increase rapidly through the 19th century, reaching 40 percent by 1900. By 1950 this reached 64%, and nearly 80% by 2000.

Answer 2

A little more than 50% of the human population lived in cities 100 years ago, with increasing urbanization taking place because of technological advancements.

What is urbanization?

Urbanization is the population shift from rural to urban areas.

Some adverse effects of urbanization on the human population include:

• Overcrowding of cities
• Unemployment
• Housing shortages
• Slum development
• Sanitation and other health hazards
• Water shortages
• Degraded environmental quality.

Thus, more than 50% of the human population lived in cities 100 years ago, with increasing urbanization taking place because of technological advancements.

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