Despite having roughly similar amounts of people in roughly the same area of the world, China and India have developed very, very differently. One difference: how quickly they urbanized. While China's urban population jumped 41% a year from 1950 to 2005, India is "still waking up to its urban realities and opportunities," says McKinsey Quarterly.
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