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GCSE Geography · key term
The speed at which the percentage of a population living in urban areas changes over time.
Used by Edexcel
Specification 4.1, 4.2 · Paper 2
The speed at which the proportion of people living in towns and cities increases.
Revise: Global Urbanisation TrendsThe rate of urbanisation describes how quickly that percentage is increasing. A country can therefore be highly urbanised but urbanising slowly.
How quickly the proportion of a population living in urban areas changes over time.
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Paper 1
Revise: Global Trends and Regional Variations in UrbanisationThe rate of urbanisation describes how quickly that percentage changes. These are different: a region where most people already live in towns and cities can have a high level of urbanisation but a slow rate of further change.