Algeria vs Brunei: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Algeria
75.8%
in 2025
Brunei
75.0%
in 2025
Algeria rank
86th
Brunei rank
89th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Algeria
- Brunei
How they compare
Algeria currently reports 75.8% against 75.0% in Brunei, a difference of 0.8%.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Algeria ahead.
Algeria ranks 86th and Brunei ranks 89th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Algeria averaged higher in 7 and Brunei in 33.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Algeria | Brunei | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.3% | Algeria |
| 1100s | 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.4% | Algeria |
| 1200s | 0.5% | 0.0% | 0.5% | Algeria |
| 1300s | 0.7% | 0.0% | 0.7% | Algeria |
| 1400s | 0.9% | 0.1% | 0.8% | Algeria |
| 1500s | 1.2% | 0.3% | 0.9% | Algeria |
| 1600s | 1.6% | 0.9% | 0.8% | Algeria |
| 1700s | 2.2% | 2.7% | 0.5% | Brunei |
| 1710s | 2.5% | 3.0% | 0.5% | Brunei |
| 1720s | 2.7% | 3.3% | 0.6% | Brunei |
| 1730s | 3.0% | 3.6% | 0.7% | Brunei |
| 1740s | 3.2% | 4.0% | 0.7% | Brunei |
| 1750s | 3.6% | 4.3% | 0.8% | Brunei |
| 1760s | 3.9% | 4.8% | 0.9% | Brunei |
| 1770s | 4.3% | 5.2% | 0.9% | Brunei |
| 1780s | 4.7% | 5.7% | 1.0% | Brunei |
| 1790s | 5.1% | 6.2% | 1.1% | Brunei |
| 1800s | 5.6% | 6.8% | 1.2% | Brunei |
| 1810s | 6.1% | 7.5% | 1.4% | Brunei |
| 1820s | 6.7% | 8.2% | 1.5% | Brunei |
| 1830s | 7.4% | 9.0% | 1.6% | Brunei |
| 1840s | 8.1% | 9.8% | 1.8% | Brunei |
| 1850s | 8.8% | 10.8% | 1.9% | Brunei |
| 1860s | 9.7% | 11.8% | 2.1% | Brunei |
| 1870s | 10.6% | 12.9% | 2.3% | Brunei |
| 1880s | 11.6% | 14.2% | 2.6% | Brunei |
| 1890s | 12.7% | 15.5% | 2.8% | Brunei |
| 1900s | 13.9% | 17.0% | 3.1% | Brunei |
| 1910s | 15.2% | 18.6% | 3.4% | Brunei |
| 1920s | 16.7% | 20.4% | 3.7% | Brunei |
| 1930s | 18.3% | 22.3% | 4.0% | Brunei |
| 1940s | 20.0% | 24.4% | 4.4% | Brunei |
| 1950s | 25.2% | 33.8% | 8.6% | Brunei |
| 1960s | 36.7% | 53.2% | 16.4% | Brunei |
| 1970s | 40.4% | 62.1% | 21.8% | Brunei |
| 1980s | 47.2% | 61.2% | 13.9% | Brunei |
| 1990s | 55.6% | 68.4% | 12.8% | Brunei |
| 2000s | 63.3% | 73.2% | 10.0% | Brunei |
| 2010s | 69.8% | 75.0% | 5.2% | Brunei |
| 2020s | 74.4% | 74.8% | 0.4% | Brunei |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Algeria or Brunei?
- Algeria, at 75.8% against 75.0% in Brunei as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Algeria and Brunei?
- 0.8%, with Algeria ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Algeria and Brunei?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Algeria and Brunei rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Algeria ranks 86th and Brunei ranks 89th 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.