Department of Computer Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QF, UK.
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, London, W1T 4TJ, UK.
Sci Rep. 2021 Feb 17;11(1):3952. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-83238-5.
Urbanization plays a crucial role in the economic development of every country. The mutual relationship between the urbanization of any country and its economic productive structure is far from being understood. We analyzed the historical evolution of product exports for all countries using the World Trade Web with respect to patterns of urbanization from 1995 to 2010. Using the evolving framework of economic complexity, we reveal that a country's economic development in terms of its production and export of goods, is interwoven with the urbanization process during the early stages of its economic development and growth. Meanwhile in urbanized countries, the reciprocal relation between economic growth and urbanization fades away with respect to its later stages, becoming negligible for countries highly dependent on the export of resources where urbanization is not linked to any structural economic transformation.
城市化在每个国家的经济发展中都起着至关重要的作用。任何国家的城市化与其经济生产结构之间的相互关系还远未被理解。我们使用世界贸易网分析了 1995 年至 2010 年期间所有国家产品出口的历史演变，以及城市化模式。利用经济复杂性不断发展的框架，我们揭示了一个国家在生产和出口货物方面的经济发展，与经济发展和增长的早期城市化进程交织在一起。同时，在城市化国家，经济增长与城市化之间的相互关系在其后期阶段逐渐消失，对于高度依赖资源出口的国家来说变得微不足道，在这些国家，城市化与任何结构性经济转型都没有联系。
