Rural Community Urban Community

 Families in rural community tend to have  -Urbanized, educated and professional

more children, which they consider as an families with two incomes desire to only
asset because having more children means have one or two children due to the
having a plenty of helping hands in demand of time that they to devote in
cultivating and harvesting their farmland parenting amidst their career life.
or managing a small business.
 -Urban families may not have a same
 Rural families view multiple children and kinship as rural families have because
large kinship network as critical couples live on their own and they deal
investment this ensure that the family will with life’s challenges on their own.
have a successor generation to preserve
their kinship or take over the agricultural
work.

These differing versions of family life determining the economic and social policies that countries craft
regarding their respective populations. Less developed countries rely highly on agriculture to maintain
high levels of population growth. With this, the United Nations (1980) report on urban and rural
population growth states that, “These areas contained 85 percent of the world rural population in 1975
and are projected to contain 90 percent by the end of 20 th century”.

In 2011, global agricultural population accounted for 37 percent of the total world population compared
to the statistics in 1980 in which rural and urban population percentages were more or less the same.
Such statement showed that global agriculture population has declined.

In contrast, a blog site “Nourishing the Planet” states that the agricultural population shrunk as a share
of total population between 1980 and 2011, it grew numerically from 2.2 billion to 2.6 billion people
during this period.

Urban population have grown due to the natural outcome of siginificant migration to the cities by
people seeking work in the modernized sectors of society.