Aruba vs Portugal: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Aruba

61.7%

in 2025

Portugal

61.5%

in 2025

Aruba rank

137th

Portugal rank

138th

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

Aruba currently reports 61.7% against 61.5% in Portugal, a difference of 0.3%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Portugal ahead.

Aruba ranks 137th and Portugal ranks 138th 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.