Urbanization Ratio

Dataset

DOI

The World Countries Urbanization ratio dataset comprises information on urbanization ratio’s per each country for the period 1500-2000. Data has been gathered and organized in 50-years intervals for the period 1500-1800, using as geographical reference the current list of existing world countries.

Please consult the working paper for a description of the data and sources.

Identifier
DOI	https://doi.org/10.34894/YESEB2
Metadata Access	https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/YESEB2

Provenance
Creator	Fink-Jensen, Jonathan
Publisher	DataverseNL
Contributor	van Leeuwen, Bas
Publication Year	2026
Rights	CC0-1.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess	true
Contact	van Leeuwen, Bas

Representation
Resource Type	Dataset
Format	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document; application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Size	18881; 77153
Version	1.0
Discipline	Humanities