Austria vs Hungary: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Austria

69.7%

in 2025

Hungary

70.7%

in 2025

Austria rank

107th

Hungary rank

104th

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

Hungary currently reports 70.7% against 69.7% in Austria, a difference of 1.0%.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Hungary ahead.

Austria ranks 107th and Hungary ranks 104th 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.