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Urbanization in China 2016

Degree of urbanization in China from 2006 to 2016

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