Azerbaijan vs Ghana: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Azerbaijan
58.6%
in 2025
Ghana
58.9%
in 2025
Azerbaijan rank
150th
Ghana rank
148th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Azerbaijan
- Ghana
How they compare
Ghana currently reports 58.9% against 58.6% in Azerbaijan, a difference of 0.3%.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Ghana ahead.
Azerbaijan ranks 150th and Ghana ranks 148th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Azerbaijan averaged higher in 15 and Ghana in 25.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Azerbaijan | Ghana | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Ghana |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Ghana |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Ghana |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Ghana |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Ghana |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | Ghana |
| 1600s | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.2% | Ghana |
| 1700s | 1.0% | 1.5% | 0.5% | Ghana |
| 1710s | 1.0% | 1.7% | 0.7% | Ghana |
| 1720s | 1.0% | 1.9% | 0.9% | Ghana |
| 1730s | 1.0% | 2.1% | 1.1% | Ghana |
| 1740s | 1.0% | 2.3% | 1.3% | Ghana |
| 1750s | 1.0% | 2.5% | 1.5% | Ghana |
| 1760s | 1.0% | 2.7% | 1.7% | Ghana |
| 1770s | 1.0% | 3.0% | 2.0% | Ghana |
| 1780s | 0.9% | 3.3% | 2.3% | Ghana |
| 1790s | 1.2% | 3.6% | 2.4% | Ghana |
| 1800s | 1.5% | 3.9% | 2.5% | Ghana |
| 1810s | 1.8% | 4.3% | 2.5% | Ghana |
| 1820s | 2.3% | 4.7% | 2.4% | Ghana |
| 1830s | 2.9% | 5.2% | 2.3% | Ghana |
| 1840s | 3.6% | 5.7% | 2.1% | Ghana |
| 1850s | 4.5% | 6.2% | 1.7% | Ghana |
| 1860s | 5.6% | 6.8% | 1.2% | Ghana |
| 1870s | 7.0% | 7.5% | 0.4% | Ghana |
| 1880s | 8.8% | 8.2% | 0.6% | Azerbaijan |
| 1890s | 11.0% | 8.9% | 2.1% | Azerbaijan |
| 1900s | 13.8% | 9.8% | 4.0% | Azerbaijan |
| 1910s | 17.2% | 10.7% | 6.5% | Azerbaijan |
| 1920s | 21.5% | 11.8% | 9.8% | Azerbaijan |
| 1930s | 26.9% | 12.9% | 14.0% | Azerbaijan |
| 1940s | 33.6% | 14.1% | 19.5% | Azerbaijan |
| 1950s | 46.7% | 18.9% | 27.8% | Azerbaijan |
| 1960s | 49.4% | 26.1% | 23.3% | Azerbaijan |
| 1970s | 51.7% | 30.0% | 21.7% | Azerbaijan |
| 1980s | 53.4% | 32.6% | 20.8% | Azerbaijan |
| 1990s | 52.4% | 39.5% | 12.9% | Azerbaijan |
| 2000s | 52.2% | 47.1% | 5.1% | Azerbaijan |
| 2010s | 55.2% | 53.3% | 1.9% | Azerbaijan |
| 2020s | 58.5% | 57.5% | 0.9% | 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 Ghana?
- Ghana, at 58.9% against 58.6% in Azerbaijan as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Azerbaijan and Ghana?
- 0.3%, with Ghana ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Azerbaijan and Ghana?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Azerbaijan and Ghana rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Azerbaijan ranks 150th and Ghana ranks 148th 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.