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For many, it’s a long way to the city

Access to urban centres is vastly unequal.
Inequality mapping

This map of travel time to cities shows places where trips take only minutes (bright yellow) versus where they take weeks (purple). Credit: The Malaria Atlas Project, University of Oxford

Nearly half of the residents of low-income countries live more than one hour’s travel from a city, where vital resources such as education and health care are concentrated.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-00496-6

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