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I mean i haven't looked into the source but i assume it probably means not rural. This is an interesting point because of course we could go into more depth about the way that the US and China differ in their respective urban vs rural population distribution. China still has a larger proportion of its population living in rural areas than is the case in "developed" countries. And one of the major problems that China has been working on is solving the economic and infrastructure disparity between urban and rural. This is a huge task and one that is still ongoing. That being said the majority of China's population is now living in urban areas, which is a big change from just 70 years ago when the majority was still rural. So while this graph doesn't tell the whole picture it is still fairly representative. As for rural populations in the West, doing a proper analysis of their economic and class makeup is a whole topic into its own and is not as simple as one would think because on the one hand you do have many people in the US living in rural areas in fairly pronounced proverty conditions (Appalachia, Midwest, etc.) but you also have some quite affluent petty bourgeois farmers.
Also with several rounds of white flight, there are a lot of petty b's living in the blurry line between urban and rural
Indeed, there is a whole complex history behind this as these things are not static and change over time. Around the mid century there was a big shift in population in the US from urban to suburban which was not equally distributed across race and class lines.