Emerging Challenges of Urban and Rural Population Distribution in the World: A Global and European Overview of Urban Growth

Abstract

The aim of this work is to make a first approximation to the reality of urbanization processes and their associated problems. We will emphasize the depopulation of the rural world through the analysis of the evolution of population growth and its unequal distribution from the second half of the 20th century to the present in the world and Europe. The main objective of the research is to carry out a study of the current situation of demographic imbalances, investigating the historical trend of rural depopulation and highlighting its causes, consequences and possible solutions. The depopulation of the rural environment is considered a global process, of great complexity and with social and economic implications of enormous proportions in today’s societies, in such a way that it already represents today one of the great challenges they face on an international scale.