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In 2008, by the United Nations count, more people lived in towns and cities than in the countryside. It was not one morning when the world changed. It was a census line being crossed. Since then the urban share has kept climbing. Most of us now live in cities.

The human majority became urban in 2008, by the UN count.

World Urbanization Prospects · United Nations · 2008 · Factapp