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

Canada currently reports 82.9% against 81.3% in Bahamas, a difference of 1.5%.

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.

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
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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