Afghanistan vs Burundi: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Afghanistan
25.9%
in 2025
Burundi
25.7%
in 2025
Afghanistan rank
222nd
Burundi rank
223rd
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Afghanistan
- Burundi
How they compare
Afghanistan currently reports 25.9% against 25.7% in Burundi, a difference of 0.2%.
Across all 108 years both countries report, Afghanistan has been ahead every year.
Afghanistan ranks 222nd and Burundi ranks 223rd of 238 countries.
Afghanistan has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Afghanistan | Burundi | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Afghanistan |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Afghanistan |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Afghanistan |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Afghanistan |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Afghanistan |
| 1500s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Afghanistan |
| 1600s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Afghanistan |
| 1700s | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | Afghanistan |
| 1710s | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.2% | Afghanistan |
| 1720s | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.2% | Afghanistan |
| 1730s | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.2% | Afghanistan |
| 1740s | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.2% | Afghanistan |
| 1750s | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.3% | Afghanistan |
| 1760s | 0.7% | 0.3% | 0.3% | Afghanistan |
| 1770s | 0.7% | 0.4% | 0.4% | Afghanistan |
| 1780s | 0.8% | 0.4% | 0.4% | Afghanistan |
| 1790s | 0.9% | 0.4% | 0.5% | Afghanistan |
| 1800s | 1.0% | 0.5% | 0.6% | Afghanistan |
| 1810s | 1.2% | 0.5% | 0.7% | Afghanistan |
| 1820s | 1.3% | 0.6% | 0.8% | Afghanistan |
| 1830s | 1.5% | 0.6% | 0.9% | Afghanistan |
| 1840s | 1.7% | 0.7% | 1.0% | Afghanistan |
| 1850s | 1.9% | 0.7% | 1.1% | Afghanistan |
| 1860s | 2.1% | 0.8% | 1.3% | Afghanistan |
| 1870s | 2.4% | 0.9% | 1.5% | Afghanistan |
| 1880s | 2.7% | 1.0% | 1.7% | Afghanistan |
| 1890s | 3.0% | 1.1% | 1.9% | Afghanistan |
| 1900s | 3.4% | 1.2% | 2.2% | Afghanistan |
| 1910s | 3.8% | 1.3% | 2.5% | Afghanistan |
| 1920s | 4.3% | 1.4% | 2.9% | Afghanistan |
| 1930s | 4.8% | 1.5% | 3.3% | Afghanistan |
| 1940s | 5.4% | 1.7% | 3.7% | Afghanistan |
| 1950s | 6.7% | 1.4% | 5.3% | Afghanistan |
| 1960s | 9.4% | 2.3% | 7.2% | Afghanistan |
| 1970s | 13.4% | 3.5% | 9.9% | Afghanistan |
| 1980s | 16.5% | 5.2% | 11.3% | Afghanistan |
| 1990s | 17.8% | 7.1% | 10.7% | Afghanistan |
| 2000s | 19.8% | 9.1% | 10.7% | Afghanistan |
| 2010s | 24.1% | 14.5% | 9.6% | Afghanistan |
| 2020s | 25.5% | 22.9% | 2.6% | Afghanistan |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Afghanistan or Burundi?
- Afghanistan, at 25.9% against 25.7% in Burundi as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Afghanistan and Burundi?
- 0.2%, with Afghanistan ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Afghanistan and Burundi?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Afghanistan and Burundi rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Afghanistan ranks 222nd and Burundi ranks 223rd of 238 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data, published as Do more people live in urban or rural areas?. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Share of the population living in urban areas, combining UN estimates with modelled historical data.