Azerbaijan vs Croatia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Azerbaijan
58.6%
in 2025
Croatia
57.8%
in 2025
Azerbaijan rank
150th
Croatia rank
151st
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Azerbaijan
- Croatia
How they compare
Azerbaijan currently reports 58.6% against 57.8% in Croatia, a difference of 0.8%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Croatia ahead.
Azerbaijan ranks 150th and Croatia ranks 151st of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Azerbaijan averaged higher in 21 and Croatia in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Azerbaijan | Croatia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | — |
| 1600s | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | — |
| 1700s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1710s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1720s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1730s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1740s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1750s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1760s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1770s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1780s | 0.9% | 1.0% | 0.1% | Croatia |
| 1790s | 1.2% | 1.0% | 0.2% | Azerbaijan |
| 1800s | 1.5% | 1.0% | 0.5% | Azerbaijan |
| 1810s | 1.8% | 1.0% | 0.9% | Azerbaijan |
| 1820s | 2.3% | 1.2% | 1.1% | Azerbaijan |
| 1830s | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1.4% | Azerbaijan |
| 1840s | 3.6% | 1.9% | 1.7% | Azerbaijan |
| 1850s | 4.5% | 2.4% | 2.1% | Azerbaijan |
| 1860s | 5.6% | 3.0% | 2.6% | Azerbaijan |
| 1870s | 7.0% | 3.7% | 3.3% | Azerbaijan |
| 1880s | 8.8% | 4.7% | 4.1% | Azerbaijan |
| 1890s | 11.0% | 5.8% | 5.2% | Azerbaijan |
| 1900s | 13.8% | 7.3% | 6.5% | Azerbaijan |
| 1910s | 17.2% | 9.1% | 8.1% | Azerbaijan |
| 1920s | 21.5% | 11.4% | 10.1% | Azerbaijan |
| 1930s | 26.9% | 14.3% | 12.6% | Azerbaijan |
| 1940s | 33.6% | 17.8% | 15.8% | Azerbaijan |
| 1950s | 46.7% | 25.7% | 21.1% | Azerbaijan |
| 1960s | 49.4% | 34.7% | 14.7% | Azerbaijan |
| 1970s | 51.7% | 43.7% | 8.0% | Azerbaijan |
| 1980s | 53.4% | 50.6% | 2.8% | Azerbaijan |
| 1990s | 52.4% | 55.0% | 2.6% | Croatia |
| 2000s | 52.2% | 55.5% | 3.4% | Croatia |
| 2010s | 55.2% | 55.6% | 0.4% | Croatia |
| 2020s | 58.5% | 57.1% | 1.3% | Azerbaijan |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Azerbaijan or Croatia?
- Azerbaijan, at 58.6% against 57.8% in Croatia as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Azerbaijan and Croatia?
- 0.8%, with Azerbaijan ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Azerbaijan and Croatia?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Azerbaijan and Croatia rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Azerbaijan ranks 150th and Croatia ranks 151st 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.