In other words, even the best datasets are only capturing about half of the people living in rural areas. “We were very surprised to see how large this underrepresentation is,” Josias Láng-Ritter, a ...

Most estimates place Earth’s human population at around 8.2 billion, but Josias Láng-Ritter—a postdoctoral researcher at ...

The map shows the location of the 307 rural areas analysed in the study ... researchers from Aalto University in Finland show the profound and systematic extent to which these datasets ...

"When dams are built, large areas are flooded and ... "For example, here in Finland, the population data is nowadays very reliable, even in rural regions, as we were the second country in the ...