People Statistics > Percentage living in rural
areas.
(most recent) by country
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Rank
#1
Countries
Bhutan:
Amount
91%
# 2 Burundi:
#3
Uganda:
90%
88%
# 4 Papua New Guinea:
#5
Nepal:
87%
85%
= 6 Malawi:
=6
Ethiopia:
84%
84%
= 6 Solomon Islands:
=9
Burkina Faso:
84%
82%
= 9 Lesotho:
=9
Rwanda:
82%
82%
# 12 Cambodia:
# 13
Eritrea:
# 14 Sri Lanka:
81%
80%
79%
= 15
Samoa:
78%
= 15 Liechtenstein:
= 15
Niger:
78%
78%
= 18 Afghanistan:
= 18
Vanuatu:
77%
77%
= 20 Swaziland:
= 20
Bangladesh:
76%
76%
= 22 Tajikistan:
= 22
Chad:
75%
75%
= 24 Gambia, The:
= 24
Yemen:
74%
74%
= 24 Vietnam:
# 27
Madagascar:
74%
73%
# 28 India:
= 29
Burma:
72%
71%
= 29 Maldives:
# 31
Saint Lucia:
71%
70%
= 32 Saint Kitts and Nevis:
= 32
Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
68%
68%
= 32 Namibia:
= 32
Thailand:
68%
68%
= 32 Mali:
# 37
Tonga:
= 38 Guinea-Bissau:
68%
67%
66%
= 38
Pakistan:
66%
= 38 Kyrgyzstan:
= 41
Togo:
66%
65%
= 41 Guinea:
= 41
Zimbabwe:
65%
65%
= 41 Somalia:
= 41
Comoros:
65%
65%
= 41 Tanzania:
= 47
Zambia:
65%
64%
= 47 Angola:
= 47
Mozambique:
64%
64%
= 50 Uzbekistan:
= 50
Haiti:
63%
63%
= 52 Antigua and Barbuda:
= 52
Guyana:
62%
62%
= 52 Sao Tome and Principe:
= 55
Kenya:
62%
61%
= 55 Sierra Leone:
= 55
Sudan:
61%
61%
# 58 Grenada:
# 59
Egypt:
59%
58%
= 60 Mauritius:
= 60
Central African Republic:
= 62 Albania:
57%
57%
56%
= 62
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
56%
= 64 Ghana:
= 64
Benin:
55%
55%
= 64 Turkmenistan:
= 64
Aruba:
55%
55%
= 68 Moldova:
= 68
Guatemala:
54%
54%
= 68 Indonesia:
= 68
Honduras:
54%
54%
= 72 Nigeria:
= 72
Kiribati:
53%
53%
= 72 Liberia:
= 75
Belize:
53%
52%
= 75 Equatorial Guinea:
= 77
Syria:
52%
50%
= 77 Seychelles:
= 77
Azerbaijan:
50%
50%
= 77 Senegal:
= 81
Cameroon:
50%
49%
= 81 Slovenia:
= 83
Barbados:
49%
48%
= 83 Georgia:
= 83
Botswana:
= 83 French Polynesia:
48%
48%
48%
= 83
Fiji:
48%
= 83 Serbia and Montenegro:
= 83
Jamaica:
48%
48%
= 90 Tuvalu:
= 90
Portugal:
45%
45%
= 90 Romania:
= 93
Cape Verde:
45%
44%
= 93 Kazakhstan:
= 95
South Africa:
44%
43%
= 95 Paraguay:
= 95
Mongolia:
43%
43%
= 95 Nicaragua:
= 95
Slovakia:
43%
43%
= 95 Panama:
= 95
Morocco:
43%
43%
# 102 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:
= 103 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
42%
41%
= 103 Algeria:
= 103 Croatia:
41%
41%
= 103 Dominican Republic:
= 107 Ireland:
41%
40%
= 107 El Salvador:
= 109 Greece:
= 109 Philippines:
40%
39%
39%
= 109 Finland:
39%
= 109 Costa Rica:
= 109 New Caledonia:
39%
39%
= 114 Poland:
= 114 Mauritania:
38%
38%
= 114 Ecuador:
# 117 Bolivia:
38%
37%
= 118 Armenia:
= 118 Malaysia:
36%
36%
= 118 Tunisia:
= 121 Japan:
36%
35%
= 121 Hungary:
= 123 Netherlands:
35%
34%
= 123 Austria:
= 123 Turkey:
34%
34%
= 123 Marshall Islands:
= 123 Latvia:
34%
34%
= 128 Lithuania:
= 128 Italy:
33%
33%
= 128 Iran:
= 128 Iraq:
33%
33%
= 128 Ukraine:
# 133 Switzerland:
= 134 Cyprus:
33%
32%
31%
= 134 Estonia:
31%
= 134 Palau:
= 137 Netherlands Antilles:
31%
30%
= 137 Cook Islands:
= 137 Bulgaria:
30%
30%
# 140 Belarus:
# 141 Dominica:
29%
28%
# 142 Russia:
= 143 Peru:
27%
26%
= 143 Czech Republic:
= 145 French Guiana:
26%
25%
= 145 Mexico:
= 145 Trinidad and Tobago:
25%
25%
= 148 Suriname:
= 148 Cuba:
24%
24%
= 148 Colombia:
= 148 France:
24%
24%
= 148 Spain:
# 153 Oman:
24%
22%
= 154 Norway:
= 154 Jordan:
21%
21%
= 156 United States:
= 156 Korea, South:
= 156 Canada:
20%
20%
20%
= 159 Sweden:
17%
= 159 Brazil:
= 161 Djibouti:
17%
16%
= 161 Gabon:
= 163 Denmark:
16%
15%
= 163 United Arab Emirates:
= 165 New Zealand:
15%
14%
= 165 Libya:
= 167 Chile:
14%
13%
= 167 Lebanon:
= 169 Germany:
13%
12%
= 169 Venezuela:
= 169 Saudi Arabia:
12%
12%
= 172 Bahamas, The:
= 172 San Marino:
11%
11%
= 172 United Kingdom:
= 175 American Samoa:
11%
10%
= 175 Argentina:
= 175 Bahrain:
10%
10%
# 178 Reunion:
= 179 Luxembourg:
9%
8%
= 179 Andorra:
= 179 Israel:
= 179 Qatar:
8%
8%
8%
= 179 Malta:
8%
= 184 Iceland:
= 184 Uruguay:
7%
7%
= 186 Western Sahara:
= 186 Guam:
6%
6%
= 186 Northern Mariana Islands:
= 186 Virgin Islands:
6%
6%
= 190 Kuwait:
= 190 Martinique:
4%
4%
= 192 Belgium:
= 192 Puerto Rico:
Weighted average:
3%
3%
44.0%