NCSU, UGa study: world population now more urban than rural

A team of researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of Georgia have concluded that on May 23 - yesterday - the majority of the world's people now reside in cities, not the countryside.

This is the first time in human history that more people lived in towns and cities than in the country. Here's an excerpt from an NCSU report today:

Working with United Nations estimates that predict the world will be 51.3 percent urban by 2010, the researchers projected the May 23, 2007, transition day based on the average daily rural and urban population increases from 2005 to 2010. On that day, a predicted global urban population of 3,303,992,253 will exceed that of 3,303,866,404 rural people.

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