3.0. Urbanity
3.1. "In over one-half of the countries of the regions, more than 70% of the population are located in rural areas. Among the developing countries, it is only in Malaysia, Philippines, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea, Hongkong, Taiwan and Mongolia that proportion of rural dwellers fall below 60% of the population." 10
3.2. "Compared with the advanced countries of Europe where migration from the countryside and urbanization progressed along with industrialization, one sees in the developing countries urbanization taking place both with and without industrialization. Moreover the speed of this urbanization has been two to five times faster than when Europe underwent its industrial development, and it has continued for more than thirty years... Three factors have combined to produce the increase in urban population. One has been the natural growth in urban population; another has been the expansion of urban administrative jurisdiction; and the third has been the inflow of population from the countryside." 11
9 Extracted from Table 3 (Human Development Index Rankings) The Far East and Australasia, p.34.
10 Williams, p.6.
