Bahamas vs Canada: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Bahamas
81.3%
in 2025
Canada
82.9%
in 2025
Bahamas rank
64th
Canada rank
61st
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Bahamas
- Canada
How they compare
Canada currently reports 82.9% against 81.3% in Bahamas, a difference of 1.6%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Bahamas ahead.
Bahamas ranks 64th and Canada ranks 61st of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Bahamas averaged higher in 30 and Canada in 10.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Bahamas | Canada | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Bahamas |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Bahamas |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Bahamas |
| 1300s | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Bahamas |
| 1400s | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | Bahamas |
| 1500s | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.4% | Bahamas |
| 1600s | 1.7% | 0.7% | 1.1% | Bahamas |
| 1700s | 5.2% | 2.0% | 3.2% | Bahamas |
| 1710s | 5.9% | 2.0% | 3.9% | Bahamas |
| 1720s | 6.4% | 2.3% | 4.1% | Bahamas |
| 1730s | 7.0% | 2.7% | 4.3% | Bahamas |
| 1740s | 7.7% | 3.1% | 4.6% | Bahamas |
| 1750s | 8.4% | 3.7% | 4.8% | Bahamas |
| 1760s | 9.2% | 4.3% | 5.0% | Bahamas |
| 1770s | 10.1% | 5.0% | 5.1% | Bahamas |
| 1780s | 11.1% | 5.8% | 5.3% | Bahamas |
| 1790s | 12.1% | 6.8% | 5.3% | Bahamas |
| 1800s | 13.3% | 7.9% | 5.4% | Bahamas |
| 1810s | 14.6% | 9.3% | 5.3% | Bahamas |
| 1820s | 16.0% | 10.8% | 5.1% | Bahamas |
| 1830s | 17.5% | 12.6% | 4.9% | Bahamas |
| 1840s | 19.1% | 14.7% | 4.4% | Bahamas |
| 1850s | 21.0% | 17.2% | 3.8% | Bahamas |
| 1860s | 23.0% | 20.0% | 2.9% | Bahamas |
| 1870s | 25.1% | 23.4% | 1.8% | Bahamas |
| 1880s | 27.5% | 27.3% | 0.3% | Bahamas |
| 1890s | 30.2% | 31.8% | 1.6% | Canada |
| 1900s | 33.0% | 37.5% | 4.5% | Canada |
| 1910s | 36.2% | 45.4% | 9.2% | Canada |
| 1920s | 39.6% | 49.5% | 9.9% | Canada |
| 1930s | 43.4% | 56.0% | 12.6% | Canada |
| 1940s | 47.5% | 60.0% | 12.5% | Canada |
| 1950s | 54.7% | 65.5% | 10.8% | Canada |
| 1960s | 60.2% | 72.4% | 12.2% | Canada |
| 1970s | 68.4% | 75.8% | 7.4% | Canada |
| 1980s | 77.0% | 76.2% | 0.8% | Bahamas |
| 1990s | 80.7% | 77.5% | 3.3% | Bahamas |
| 2000s | 81.7% | 79.8% | 2.0% | Bahamas |
| 2010s | 82.2% | 81.3% | 0.9% | Bahamas |
| 2020s | 81.4% | 82.4% | 1.0% | Canada |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Bahamas or Canada?
- Canada, at 82.9% against 81.3% in Bahamas as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Bahamas and Canada?
- 1.6%, with Canada ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Bahamas and Canada?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Bahamas and Canada rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Bahamas ranks 64th and Canada ranks 61st 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.