Austria vs Italy: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Austria
69.7%
in 2025
Italy
69.7%
in 2025
Austria rank
107th
Italy rank
108th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Austria
- Italy
How they compare
Austria currently reports 69.7% against 69.7% in Italy, a difference of 0.0%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Italy ahead.
Austria ranks 107th and Italy ranks 108th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Austria averaged higher in 10 and Italy in 30.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Austria | Italy | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 10.0% | 10.0% | Italy |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 10.0% | 10.0% | Italy |
| 1200s | 0.5% | 12.0% | 11.5% | Italy |
| 1300s | 1.0% | 21.4% | 20.4% | Italy |
| 1400s | 1.3% | 17.6% | 16.3% | Italy |
| 1500s | 1.3% | 21.0% | 19.7% | Italy |
| 1600s | 3.0% | 18.4% | 15.4% | Italy |
| 1700s | 4.8% | 16.9% | 12.1% | Italy |
| 1710s | 5.3% | 17.0% | 11.7% | Italy |
| 1720s | 5.8% | 17.0% | 11.2% | Italy |
| 1730s | 6.3% | 17.1% | 10.8% | Italy |
| 1740s | 6.8% | 17.1% | 10.3% | Italy |
| 1750s | 7.3% | 17.2% | 9.9% | Italy |
| 1760s | 7.5% | 17.3% | 9.8% | Italy |
| 1770s | 7.7% | 17.3% | 9.6% | Italy |
| 1780s | 8.0% | 17.4% | 9.4% | Italy |
| 1790s | 9.0% | 17.4% | 8.4% | Italy |
| 1800s | 10.0% | 17.5% | 7.5% | Italy |
| 1810s | 11.0% | 17.3% | 6.3% | Italy |
| 1820s | 12.0% | 17.1% | 5.1% | Italy |
| 1830s | 13.0% | 16.8% | 3.8% | Italy |
| 1840s | 15.0% | 16.6% | 1.6% | Italy |
| 1850s | 18.0% | 16.4% | 1.6% | Austria |
| 1860s | 23.0% | 16.2% | 6.8% | Austria |
| 1870s | 26.0% | 20.4% | 5.6% | Austria |
| 1880s | 29.0% | 24.6% | 4.4% | Austria |
| 1890s | 33.0% | 28.7% | 4.3% | Austria |
| 1900s | 36.0% | 32.9% | 3.1% | Austria |
| 1910s | 40.0% | 37.1% | 2.9% | Austria |
| 1920s | 52.9% | 41.3% | 11.6% | Austria |
| 1930s | 56.4% | 45.5% | 11.0% | Austria |
| 1940s | 60.0% | 49.6% | 10.4% | Austria |
| 1950s | 49.4% | 56.4% | 7.0% | Italy |
| 1960s | 50.6% | 61.7% | 11.1% | Italy |
| 1970s | 52.8% | 65.7% | 12.9% | Italy |
| 1980s | 58.6% | 66.8% | 8.2% | Italy |
| 1990s | 65.6% | 66.8% | 1.2% | Italy |
| 2000s | 66.9% | 67.6% | 0.6% | Italy |
| 2010s | 67.6% | 69.2% | 1.6% | Italy |
| 2020s | 69.1% | 69.6% | 0.4% | Italy |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Austria or Italy?
- Austria, at 69.7% against 69.7% in Italy as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Austria and Italy?
- 0.0%, with Austria ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Austria and Italy?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Austria and Italy rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Austria ranks 107th and Italy ranks 108th 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.