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.
