Fig 1.
Individual population behavior and group changes using agent-based simulation.
Table 1.
Behavioral rules and probability of population agents.
Table 2.
Basic information of the two villages in the research area.
Fig 2.
Resident population pyramid of the two villages.
Fig 3.
Process of simulating and predicting the rural population changes using agent-based modeling.
Fig 4.
Operational interfaces in GAMA platform for rural population simulation.
Table 3.
Comparison of simulation result verification in Yunfeng Village in 2024.
Table 4.
Comparison of simulation result verification in Shihan Village in 2024.
Table 5.
Paired samples T-test.
Table 6.
Bootstrap check for paired samples T-test.
Fig 5.
Comparison of simulation verification of gender structure of rural population.
Fig 6.
Results of population structure changes in two village types.
Fig 7.
Predicting the retained population of villages in the next 11 years based on agent-based simulation.
Fig 8.
Age structure of the population in Yunfeng Village with a low migration rate over the next 11 years.
Fig 9.
Population age structure of Shihan Village with a high migration rate over the next 11 years.
Fig 10.
Predicted influence of different birth and migration rates on rural age structure.