Afghanistan vs Eswatini: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Afghanistan

25.9%

in 2025

Eswatini

26.7%

in 2025

Afghanistan rank

222nd

Eswatini rank

219th

Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time

Eswatini currently reports 26.7% against 25.9% in Afghanistan, a difference of 0.8%.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Afghanistan ahead.

Afghanistan ranks 222nd and Eswatini ranks 219th of 238 countries.

Indicator: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Unit: %
Source: HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 239 places, 24,444 data points, 1000–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Share of the population living in urban areas, combining UN estimates with modelled historical data.