This book is a detailed account of the provincial population of China and its changes from 1368 to 1953. The maps and databases show the number, density, and proportion of urban population in different time periods

"The world made significant progress on reducing poverty between 1981 and 2001 — the number of people in developing countries living on less than US$1 a day fell from 1.5 billion to 1.1 billion, or from 40 to 21 percent of the world's population. In fact, however, nearly all this progress...