Albania vs Azerbaijan: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Albania
58.9%
in 2025
Azerbaijan
58.6%
in 2025
Albania rank
149th
Azerbaijan rank
150th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Albania
- Azerbaijan
How they compare
Albania currently reports 58.9% against 58.6% in Azerbaijan, a difference of 0.3%.
The two have swapped places 5 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Azerbaijan ahead.
Albania ranks 149th and Azerbaijan ranks 150th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Albania averaged higher in 1 and Azerbaijan in 24.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Albania | Azerbaijan | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | — |
| 1600s | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | — |
| 1700s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1710s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1720s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1730s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1740s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1750s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1760s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1770s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1780s | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.1% | Albania |
| 1790s | 1.0% | 1.2% | 0.2% | Azerbaijan |
| 1800s | 1.0% | 1.5% | 0.5% | Azerbaijan |
| 1810s | 1.0% | 1.8% | 0.8% | Azerbaijan |
| 1820s | 1.1% | 2.3% | 1.2% | Azerbaijan |
| 1830s | 1.4% | 2.9% | 1.5% | Azerbaijan |
| 1840s | 1.7% | 3.6% | 1.9% | Azerbaijan |
| 1850s | 2.1% | 4.5% | 2.4% | Azerbaijan |
| 1860s | 2.7% | 5.6% | 3.0% | Azerbaijan |
| 1870s | 3.3% | 7.0% | 3.7% | Azerbaijan |
| 1880s | 4.1% | 8.8% | 4.7% | Azerbaijan |
| 1890s | 5.2% | 11.0% | 5.8% | Azerbaijan |
| 1900s | 6.5% | 13.8% | 7.3% | Azerbaijan |
| 1910s | 8.1% | 17.2% | 9.1% | Azerbaijan |
| 1920s | 10.1% | 21.5% | 11.4% | Azerbaijan |
| 1930s | 12.6% | 26.9% | 14.2% | Azerbaijan |
| 1940s | 15.8% | 33.6% | 17.8% | Azerbaijan |
| 1950s | 25.8% | 46.7% | 20.9% | Azerbaijan |
| 1960s | 31.2% | 49.4% | 18.2% | Azerbaijan |
| 1970s | 32.6% | 51.7% | 19.1% | Azerbaijan |
| 1980s | 34.6% | 53.4% | 18.8% | Azerbaijan |
| 1990s | 38.2% | 52.4% | 14.2% | Azerbaijan |
| 2000s | 45.7% | 52.2% | 6.4% | Azerbaijan |
| 2010s | 54.8% | 55.2% | 0.4% | Azerbaijan |
| 2020s | 58.0% | 58.5% | 0.4% | Azerbaijan |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Albania or Azerbaijan?
- Albania, at 58.9% against 58.6% in Azerbaijan as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Albania and Azerbaijan?
- 0.3%, with Albania ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Albania and Azerbaijan?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Albania and Azerbaijan rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Albania ranks 149th and Azerbaijan ranks 150th 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.