Bahrain vs Kuwait: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Bahrain
100.0%
in 2025
Kuwait
100.0%
in 2025
Bahrain rank
1st
Kuwait rank
1st
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Bahrain
- Kuwait
How they compare
Bahrain currently reports 100.0% against 100.0% in Kuwait, a difference of 0.0%.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Kuwait ahead.
Bahrain ranks 1st and Kuwait ranks 1st of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Bahrain averaged higher in 4 and Kuwait in 34.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Bahrain | Kuwait | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Kuwait |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Kuwait |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Kuwait |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Kuwait |
| 1400s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Kuwait |
| 1500s | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | Kuwait |
| 1600s | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.0% | Kuwait |
| 1700s | 1.5% | 1.5% | 0.0% | Kuwait |
| 1710s | 1.7% | 1.5% | 0.1% | Bahrain |
| 1720s | 1.8% | 1.8% | 0.1% | Bahrain |
| 1730s | 2.0% | 2.1% | 0.1% | Kuwait |
| 1740s | 2.2% | 2.4% | 0.2% | Kuwait |
| 1750s | 2.4% | 2.8% | 0.4% | Kuwait |
| 1760s | 2.6% | 3.3% | 0.7% | Kuwait |
| 1770s | 2.9% | 3.8% | 1.0% | Kuwait |
| 1780s | 3.1% | 4.5% | 1.3% | Kuwait |
| 1790s | 3.4% | 5.2% | 1.8% | Kuwait |
| 1800s | 3.8% | 6.1% | 2.3% | Kuwait |
| 1810s | 4.1% | 7.1% | 2.9% | Kuwait |
| 1820s | 4.5% | 8.2% | 3.7% | Kuwait |
| 1830s | 4.9% | 9.6% | 4.7% | Kuwait |
| 1840s | 5.4% | 11.2% | 5.8% | Kuwait |
| 1850s | 5.9% | 13.1% | 7.2% | Kuwait |
| 1860s | 6.5% | 15.3% | 8.8% | Kuwait |
| 1870s | 7.1% | 17.8% | 10.7% | Kuwait |
| 1880s | 7.8% | 20.8% | 13.0% | Kuwait |
| 1890s | 8.5% | 24.3% | 15.7% | Kuwait |
| 1900s | 9.3% | 28.3% | 19.0% | Kuwait |
| 1910s | 10.2% | 33.0% | 22.8% | Kuwait |
| 1920s | 11.2% | 38.5% | 27.3% | Kuwait |
| 1930s | 12.3% | 44.9% | 32.7% | Kuwait |
| 1940s | 13.4% | 52.4% | 39.0% | Kuwait |
| 1950s | 75.4% | 68.6% | 6.8% | Bahrain |
| 1960s | 81.6% | 78.3% | 3.2% | Bahrain |
| 1970s | 78.8% | 87.8% | 9.0% | Kuwait |
| 1980s | 83.7% | 97.2% | 13.4% | Kuwait |
| 1990s | 88.2% | 98.2% | 10.0% | Kuwait |
| 2000s | 91.6% | 99.7% | 8.2% | Kuwait |
| 2010s | 100.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 2020s | 100.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | — |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Bahrain or Kuwait?
- Bahrain, at 100.0% against 100.0% in Kuwait as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Bahrain and Kuwait?
- 0.0%, with Bahrain ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Bahrain and Kuwait?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Bahrain and Kuwait rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Bahrain ranks 1st and Kuwait ranks 1st 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.