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Cities were population sinks everywhere, not just in Europe. Until the late nineteenth century urban mortality was higher than rural mortality everywhere in the world, and in the eighteenth-century cities driving economic dynamism an excess of deaths over births was the norm, so cities could only hold their size through continuous migration of young adults from the countryside. The places generating the growth were consuming the people who made it.
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urban mortality was higher than rural mortality, explains Shaw Taylor. However, the problem was significantly worse in Europe and North America due to the higher levels of urbanization. In the new cities that drove the economic dynamism of these geographies du
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