US
325.7 million 2018
WORLD
7.7 billion people
In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living, and was estimated to have reached 7.7 billion people as of November 2018.
World population - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
Georgia Guidestones
US 4.4% world population
500 M 6.5 % of 7.7 B
=eliminate 93.5% of population
US: 93.5 % of 325.7 eliminate 304 M
surviving is 20.7 million
#people in US living in cities over 50 k 126,208,061
#people in US living in cities over 100 k 93,925,293
=must be leaving out suburban areas
“U.S. Cities are Home to 62.7 Percent of the U.S. Population, but Comprise Just 3.5 Percent of Land Area” https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-33.html
“America has grown even more urban. According to new numbers just released from the U.S. Census Bureau, 80.7 percent of the U.S. population lived in urban areas as of the 2010 Census, a boost from the 79 percent counted in 2000. That brings the country's total urban population to 249,253,271, a number attained via a growth rate of 12.1 percent between 2000 and 2010, outpacing the nation as a whole, which grew at 9.7 percent..
“The New York-Newark metro area is still the nation's most populous, with 18,351,295 residents. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim is still the second, with 12,150,996, and the Chicago area is still third, with 8,608,208. Despite all the booms and busts in other cities over the years, these three have been the most populous since the 1950 Census, when urban areas were first delineated by the Census Bureau. Their dominance likely extends even farther back in history.
“But we're not just talking about cities here. The new figures represent the population in "urban areas," which the Census Bureau defines as "densely developed residential, commercial and other nonresidential areas."
“There are officially two types of urban areas: “urbanized areas” of 50,000 or more people and “urban clusters” of between 2,500 and 50,000 people. For the 2010 count, the Census Bureau has defined 486 urbanized areas, accounting for 71.2 percent of the U.S. population. The 3,087 urban clusters account for 9.5 percent of the U.S. population.
“Though these smaller urban clusters account for a relatively small portion of the total population, they make up the vast majority of the roughly 3,500 "urban" areas in the U.S. But is a town of 2,500 people really what we think of as "urban"?”
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2012/03/us-urban-population-what-does-urban-really-mean/1589/
“If roughly 80 percent of our population is urban, roughly 80 percent of our urban areas are actually small towns. ”
Still lots less than 98%
What would happen if all the big cities ceased to exist, and only small towns and rural areas were left?
Farms would still work – less need of mass crops
still be transportation
electrical grid would work for surviving areas
LE and govt would still work
communications would work
there would be mechanics, doctors, grocery stores, roads, bridges, truck drivers, pilots, sheriffs hwy patrol
new poster - think I posted this wrong place first couple times sorry