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
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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.

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About this data

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
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Share of the population living in urban areas, combining UN estimates with modelled historical data.