If analysing the urbanisation process during recent decades, we could ascertain that the average annual growth
rate of urbanisation process of 2.7% was twice as high as the rate of rural population growth, of 1.3%. If the highest
rates of rural population urbanisation were recorded in the former USSR, South America and Europe, during the
same period, the weight of rural population decreased in Africa, North America, Asia, Central America and
Oceania, though increasing in terms of number, due to a high birth rate registered for the population of villages.
Likewise, in the former USSR, South America and Europe, rural population decreased both in terms of weight and
in absolute figures due to a keen migration process.1