The data displays the percentage of Chinese population living in urban areas until 2016. In 2012, about 53% of the total population lived in cities.
Degree of urbanization in China – additional information Urbanization is generally defined as a process of people migrating from rural to urban areas, during which towns and cities are formed and increase in size. Even though urbanization is not exclusively a modern phenomenon, industrialization and modernization did accelerate its progress. As shown in the statistic at hand, the degree of urbanization of China, the world’s second-biggest economy, rose from 39% in 2002 to around 53% in 2012.
2006 | 44.34 |
2007 | 45.89 |
2008 | 46.99 |
2009 | 48.34 |
2010 | 49.95 |
2011 | 51.27 |
2012 | 52.57 |
2013 | 53.73 |
2014 | 54.77 |
2015 | 56.1 |
2016 | 57.35 |