Burundi vs Rwanda: Urban area over the long-term

Burundi
390.75 km² per grid cell
in 2025
Rwanda
369.67 km² per grid cell
in 2025
Burundi rank
137th
Rwanda rank
138th

Urban area over the long-term over time

  • Burundi
  • Rwanda
0100200300400100015122025

How they compare

Burundi currently reports 390.75 km² per grid cell against 369.67 km² per grid cell in Rwanda, a difference of 21.07 km² per grid cell.

That makes Burundi's figure about 1.1 times Rwanda's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Burundi ahead.

Burundi ranks 137th and Rwanda ranks 138th of 202 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Urban area over the long-term
Unit
km² per grid cell
Source
HYDE (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
202 places, 21,816 data points, 1000–2025
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Total built-up area of a country over time.