Albania vs Ghana: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Albania

58.9%

in 2025

Ghana

58.9%

in 2025

Albania rank

149th

Ghana rank

148th

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

Ghana currently reports 58.9% against 58.9% in Albania, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Ghana ahead.

Albania ranks 149th and Ghana ranks 148th 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.