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SUBMITTER: Gaughan AE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4755125 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gaughan Andrea E AE Stevens Forrest R FR Huang Zhuojie Z Nieves Jeremiah J JJ Sorichetta Alessandro A Lai Shengjie S Ye Xinyue X Linard Catherine C Hornby Graeme M GM Hay Simon I SI Yu Hongjie H Tatem Andrew J AJ
Scientific data 20160216
According to UN forecasts, global population will increase to over 8 billion by 2025, with much of this anticipated population growth expected in urban areas. In China, the scale of urbanization has, and continues to be, unprecedented in terms of magnitude and rate of change. Since the late 1970s, the percentage of Chinese living in urban areas increased from ~18% to over 50%. To quantify these patterns spatially we use time-invariant or temporally-explicit data, including census data for 1990, ...[more]