鈥淪ignificant Proportion鈥 of World鈥檚 Rural Population Missing From Global Estimates, Says Study
Aalto UniversityGovernments, international bodies and researchers rely on global population data for resource allocation and infrastructure planning to disease epidemiology and disaster risk management. In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from Aalto University in Finland show the profound and systematic extent to which these datasets underestimate rural population figures worldwide.