November 10, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. ESTToday at 6:00 a.m. EST Keith Moore is head of editorial at Gapminder Foundation, a Swedish group that promotes access to reliable facts and data....more Keith Moore ...

The question of where gun ownership is highest in the United States, particularly concerning the prevalence in rural versus ...

Rural environments are often difficult to define in administrative and professional contexts and carry notable biases and complexities. Population and density thresholds are the most common ...

Analysis of a nationally representative sample of adults with mental health needs shows that rural residents have fewer ambulatory mental health visits than their urban counterparts do. Even among ...

Most Americans in urban, rural and suburban areas say people who live in the same type of community as they do generally share their values, but they are less convinced about those in other types of ...

WASHINGTON – Challenges with the cash-strapped United States Postal Service sent many Americans to their wit’s end during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in communities reliant on the mail for ...

Hundreds of urban hospitals have taken advantage of a 2016 policy change that allows them to be simultaneously classified by Medicare as rural and urban facilities for payment purposes, according to a ...

Patricia Robertson's piece seems to raise an awkward double standard: It's okay for rural Canadians to be judgmental toward "urbanites," but not the other way around. When rural Canadians slag urban ...

BENGALURU: Karnataka has emerged as a frontrunner in narrowing the urban-rural divide in monthly per capita consumer expenditure (MPCE), outperforming the national average and several other ...

New Delhi: The average monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) in India saw significant growth in 2023-24, fuelled by higher spending across rural and urban households and a narrowing ...