Angola vs Mongolia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Angola
71.5%
in 2025
Mongolia
71.1%
in 2025
Angola rank
100th
Mongolia rank
101st
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Angola
- Mongolia
How they compare
Angola currently reports 71.5% against 71.1% in Mongolia, a difference of 0.4%.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Angola ahead.
Angola ranks 100th and Mongolia ranks 101st of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Angola averaged higher in 21 and Mongolia in 19.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Angola | Mongolia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Angola |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Angola |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Angola |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Angola |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Angola |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Angola |
| 1600s | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | Angola |
| 1700s | 0.7% | 0.3% | 0.4% | Angola |
| 1710s | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.5% | Angola |
| 1720s | 0.9% | 0.3% | 0.6% | Angola |
| 1730s | 0.9% | 0.4% | 0.6% | Angola |
| 1740s | 1.0% | 0.4% | 0.6% | Angola |
| 1750s | 1.1% | 0.5% | 0.6% | Angola |
| 1760s | 1.2% | 0.6% | 0.6% | Angola |
| 1770s | 1.3% | 0.7% | 0.6% | Angola |
| 1780s | 1.5% | 0.9% | 0.6% | Angola |
| 1790s | 1.6% | 1.1% | 0.6% | Angola |
| 1800s | 1.8% | 1.3% | 0.5% | Angola |
| 1810s | 1.9% | 1.5% | 0.4% | Angola |
| 1820s | 2.1% | 1.8% | 0.3% | Angola |
| 1830s | 2.3% | 2.2% | 0.1% | Angola |
| 1840s | 2.5% | 2.6% | 0.1% | Mongolia |
| 1850s | 2.8% | 3.2% | 0.4% | Mongolia |
| 1860s | 3.0% | 3.8% | 0.7% | Mongolia |
| 1870s | 3.3% | 4.5% | 1.2% | Mongolia |
| 1880s | 3.7% | 5.4% | 1.8% | Mongolia |
| 1890s | 4.0% | 6.5% | 2.5% | Mongolia |
| 1900s | 4.4% | 7.8% | 3.5% | Mongolia |
| 1910s | 4.8% | 9.4% | 4.6% | Mongolia |
| 1920s | 5.3% | 11.3% | 6.0% | Mongolia |
| 1930s | 5.8% | 13.6% | 7.8% | Mongolia |
| 1940s | 6.3% | 16.3% | 10.0% | Mongolia |
| 1950s | 8.0% | 26.4% | 18.4% | Mongolia |
| 1960s | 12.1% | 41.5% | 29.4% | Mongolia |
| 1970s | 18.2% | 48.3% | 30.1% | Mongolia |
| 1980s | 30.3% | 55.2% | 25.0% | Mongolia |
| 1990s | 43.6% | 56.8% | 13.2% | Mongolia |
| 2000s | 55.3% | 61.7% | 6.5% | Mongolia |
| 2010s | 63.3% | 67.9% | 4.6% | Mongolia |
| 2020s | 69.5% | 69.9% | 0.5% | Mongolia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Angola or Mongolia?
- Angola, at 71.5% against 71.1% in Mongolia as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Angola and Mongolia?
- 0.4%, with Angola ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Angola and Mongolia?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Angola and Mongolia rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Angola ranks 100th and Mongolia ranks 101st 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.