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> Do you mean the U.S or the whole world Both: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/world-urbanization-prospects-2014.html http://www.un.org/e

• sgustard 11y ago
  Re the US, the statistics don't call out suburbs; per http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-suburban-are-big-american-cities/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-suburban-are-big-ame... "Nationally, 26 percent of Americans described where they live as urban, 53 percent said suburban and 21 percent said rural."
• dragonwriter 11y ago
  But that contradicts the "most people live in big cities"; it is "most people live in cities", but of them most of them live in smaller cities. And it only deals with the urban/rural distinction, which subsumes suburbia into "urban". This has value for lots of uses, but isn't particularly useful for discussing transit, where suburbia is -- while still very distinct from rural areas -- very different from narrow-sense urban.