  Urbanization plays a crucial role in the economic development of every
country. The mutual relationship between the urbanization of any country and
its economic productive structure is far from being understood. We analyzed the
historical evolution of product exports for all countries using the World Trade
Web (WTW) with respect to patterns of urbanization from 1995-2010. Using the
evolving framework of economic complexity, we reveal that a country's economic
development in terms of its production and export of goods, is interwoven with
the urbanization process during the early stages of its economic development
and growth. Meanwhile in urbanized countries, the reciprocal relation between
economic growth and urbanization fades away with respect to its later stages,
becoming negligible for countries highly dependent on the export of resources
where urbanization is not linked to any structural economic transformation.
