Australia vs Belgium: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Australia
87.7%
in 2025
Belgium
87.7%
in 2025
Australia rank
49th
Belgium rank
50th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Australia
- Belgium
How they compare
Australia currently reports 87.7% against 87.7% in Belgium, a difference of 0.0%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Belgium ahead.
Australia ranks 49th and Belgium ranks 50th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Australia averaged higher in 7 and Belgium in 33.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | Belgium | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 3.0% | 3.0% | Belgium |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 9.9% | 9.9% | Belgium |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 12.5% | 12.5% | Belgium |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 15.0% | 15.0% | Belgium |
| 1400s | 0.1% | 26.2% | 26.1% | Belgium |
| 1500s | 0.2% | 29.6% | 29.4% | Belgium |
| 1600s | 0.5% | 29.3% | 28.8% | Belgium |
| 1700s | 1.6% | 30.6% | 29.0% | Belgium |
| 1710s | 1.9% | 28.9% | 27.0% | Belgium |
| 1720s | 2.2% | 27.2% | 25.0% | Belgium |
| 1730s | 2.6% | 25.6% | 23.0% | Belgium |
| 1740s | 3.0% | 23.9% | 20.8% | Belgium |
| 1750s | 3.5% | 22.2% | 18.7% | Belgium |
| 1760s | 4.1% | 22.1% | 18.0% | Belgium |
| 1770s | 4.8% | 22.0% | 17.2% | Belgium |
| 1780s | 5.6% | 21.9% | 16.3% | Belgium |
| 1790s | 6.6% | 21.8% | 15.2% | Belgium |
| 1800s | 7.7% | 21.7% | 14.0% | Belgium |
| 1810s | 8.9% | 26.3% | 17.4% | Belgium |
| 1820s | 10.4% | 31.0% | 20.6% | Belgium |
| 1830s | 12.2% | 35.6% | 23.5% | Belgium |
| 1840s | 14.2% | 40.3% | 26.1% | Belgium |
| 1850s | 16.6% | 44.9% | 28.4% | Belgium |
| 1860s | 19.3% | 49.6% | 30.2% | Belgium |
| 1870s | 22.5% | 54.2% | 31.7% | Belgium |
| 1880s | 26.3% | 58.9% | 32.5% | Belgium |
| 1890s | 30.7% | 63.5% | 32.8% | Belgium |
| 1900s | 35.8% | 68.1% | 32.3% | Belgium |
| 1910s | 41.8% | 72.8% | 31.0% | Belgium |
| 1920s | 48.7% | 77.4% | 28.7% | Belgium |
| 1930s | 56.9% | 82.1% | 25.2% | Belgium |
| 1940s | 66.3% | 86.7% | 20.4% | Belgium |
| 1950s | 78.8% | 64.1% | 14.7% | Australia |
| 1960s | 83.0% | 67.9% | 15.1% | Australia |
| 1970s | 85.8% | 72.5% | 13.3% | Australia |
| 1980s | 85.5% | 76.5% | 9.0% | Australia |
| 1990s | 85.3% | 80.1% | 5.1% | Australia |
| 2000s | 85.6% | 83.4% | 2.2% | Australia |
| 2010s | 86.8% | 86.1% | 0.7% | Australia |
| 2020s | 87.4% | 87.5% | 0.1% | Belgium |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Australia or Belgium?
- Australia, at 87.7% against 87.7% in Belgium as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Australia and Belgium?
- 0.0%, with Australia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Belgium?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Australia and Belgium rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Australia ranks 49th and Belgium ranks 50th 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.