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Rural depopulation

Rural depopulation is a phenomenon affecting rural

Rural

Rural areas are large and isolated areas of a country, often with low populations. Today, 75 percent of the United States' inhabitants live in suburban and urban areas, but cities occupy only 2 percent of the country....
locales in both developed and developing countries, whereby net population movement leaves rural places with decreasing population and urban places with increasing population, caused by the migration of people from rural areas to urban areas.

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Rural depopulation is a phenomenon affecting rural

Rural

Rural areas are large and isolated areas of a country, often with low populations. Today, 75 percent of the United States' inhabitants live in suburban and urban areas, but cities occupy only 2 percent of the country....
locales in both developed and developing countries, whereby net population movement leaves rural places with decreasing population and urban places with increasing population, caused by the migration of people from rural areas to urban areas.

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Migration of the disadvantaged
Migration of the disadvantaged

Migration of the disadvantaged is a phenomenon, where the marginalization populations move out from cities to depopulated suburban or rural areas....
Urbanization
Urbanization

Urbanization is the physical growth of rural or natural land into urban areas as a result of population im-migration to an existing urban area....
Rural exodus
Rural exodus

Rural exodus is a term used to describe the migratory patterns that normally occur in a region following the mechanisation of agriculture. In such a situation, there tends to be a movement of peoples from rural sociology into urban areas....