Afghanistan vs Guyana: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Afghanistan
25.9%
in 2025
Guyana
26.5%
in 2025
Afghanistan rank
222nd
Guyana rank
220th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Afghanistan
- Guyana
How they compare
Guyana currently reports 26.5% against 25.9% in Afghanistan, a difference of 0.6%.
Across all 108 years both countries report, Guyana has been ahead every year.
Afghanistan ranks 222nd and Guyana ranks 220th of 238 countries.
Guyana has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Afghanistan | Guyana | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Guyana |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Guyana |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Guyana |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Guyana |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Guyana |
| 1500s | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Guyana |
| 1600s | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | Guyana |
| 1700s | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.3% | Guyana |
| 1710s | 0.4% | 0.7% | 0.4% | Guyana |
| 1720s | 0.4% | 0.8% | 0.4% | Guyana |
| 1730s | 0.5% | 1.0% | 0.5% | Guyana |
| 1740s | 0.5% | 1.1% | 0.6% | Guyana |
| 1750s | 0.6% | 1.3% | 0.8% | Guyana |
| 1760s | 0.7% | 1.6% | 0.9% | Guyana |
| 1770s | 0.7% | 1.8% | 1.1% | Guyana |
| 1780s | 0.8% | 2.1% | 1.3% | Guyana |
| 1790s | 0.9% | 2.5% | 1.5% | Guyana |
| 1800s | 1.0% | 2.9% | 1.8% | Guyana |
| 1810s | 1.2% | 3.4% | 2.2% | Guyana |
| 1820s | 1.3% | 3.9% | 2.6% | Guyana |
| 1830s | 1.5% | 4.6% | 3.1% | Guyana |
| 1840s | 1.7% | 5.3% | 3.7% | Guyana |
| 1850s | 1.9% | 6.2% | 4.4% | Guyana |
| 1860s | 2.1% | 7.3% | 5.2% | Guyana |
| 1870s | 2.4% | 8.5% | 6.1% | Guyana |
| 1880s | 2.7% | 9.9% | 7.2% | Guyana |
| 1890s | 3.0% | 11.6% | 8.6% | Guyana |
| 1900s | 3.4% | 13.5% | 10.1% | Guyana |
| 1910s | 3.8% | 15.7% | 11.9% | Guyana |
| 1920s | 4.3% | 18.4% | 14.1% | Guyana |
| 1930s | 4.8% | 21.4% | 16.6% | Guyana |
| 1940s | 5.4% | 25.0% | 19.6% | Guyana |
| 1950s | 6.7% | 28.5% | 21.8% | Guyana |
| 1960s | 9.4% | 29.6% | 20.2% | Guyana |
| 1970s | 13.4% | 29.8% | 16.4% | Guyana |
| 1980s | 16.5% | 29.5% | 13.0% | Guyana |
| 1990s | 17.8% | 29.3% | 11.5% | Guyana |
| 2000s | 19.8% | 27.8% | 8.0% | Guyana |
| 2010s | 24.1% | 26.4% | 2.4% | Guyana |
| 2020s | 25.5% | 26.5% | 0.9% | Guyana |
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 Guyana?
- Guyana, at 26.5% against 25.9% in Afghanistan as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Afghanistan and Guyana?
- 0.6%, with Guyana ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Afghanistan and Guyana?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Afghanistan and Guyana rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Afghanistan ranks 222nd and Guyana ranks 220th 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 modeled historical data.