Bahrain vs Singapore: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Bahrain
100.0%
in 2025
Singapore
100.0%
in 2025
Bahrain rank
1st
Singapore rank
1st
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Bahrain
- Singapore
How they compare
Bahrain currently reports 100.0% against 100.0% in Singapore, a difference of 0.0%.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Bahrain ahead.
Bahrain ranks 1st and Singapore ranks 1st of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Bahrain averaged higher in 12 and Singapore in 26.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Bahrain | Singapore | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Bahrain |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Bahrain |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Bahrain |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Bahrain |
| 1400s | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Bahrain |
| 1500s | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | Bahrain |
| 1600s | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.2% | Bahrain |
| 1700s | 1.5% | 1.0% | 0.5% | Bahrain |
| 1710s | 1.7% | 1.3% | 0.4% | Bahrain |
| 1720s | 1.8% | 1.5% | 0.3% | Bahrain |
| 1730s | 2.0% | 1.8% | 0.2% | Bahrain |
| 1740s | 2.2% | 2.2% | 0.0% | Bahrain |
| 1750s | 2.4% | 2.6% | 0.2% | Singapore |
| 1760s | 2.6% | 3.1% | 0.5% | Singapore |
| 1770s | 2.9% | 3.7% | 0.9% | Singapore |
| 1780s | 3.1% | 4.5% | 1.3% | Singapore |
| 1790s | 3.4% | 5.4% | 1.9% | Singapore |
| 1800s | 3.8% | 6.5% | 2.7% | Singapore |
| 1810s | 4.1% | 7.7% | 3.6% | Singapore |
| 1820s | 4.5% | 9.3% | 4.8% | Singapore |
| 1830s | 4.9% | 11.2% | 6.2% | Singapore |
| 1840s | 5.4% | 13.4% | 8.0% | Singapore |
| 1850s | 5.9% | 16.1% | 10.1% | Singapore |
| 1860s | 6.5% | 19.3% | 12.8% | Singapore |
| 1870s | 7.1% | 23.1% | 16.0% | Singapore |
| 1880s | 7.8% | 27.8% | 20.0% | Singapore |
| 1890s | 8.5% | 33.3% | 24.8% | Singapore |
| 1900s | 9.3% | 40.0% | 30.6% | Singapore |
| 1910s | 10.2% | 48.0% | 37.7% | Singapore |
| 1920s | 11.2% | 57.5% | 46.3% | Singapore |
| 1930s | 12.3% | 69.1% | 56.8% | Singapore |
| 1940s | 13.4% | 82.9% | 69.4% | Singapore |
| 1950s | 75.4% | 100.0% | 24.6% | Singapore |
| 1960s | 81.6% | 100.0% | 18.4% | Singapore |
| 1970s | 78.8% | 100.0% | 21.2% | Singapore |
| 1980s | 83.7% | 100.0% | 16.3% | Singapore |
| 1990s | 88.2% | 100.0% | 11.8% | Singapore |
| 2000s | 91.6% | 100.0% | 8.4% | Singapore |
| 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 Singapore?
- Bahrain, at 100.0% against 100.0% in Singapore as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Bahrain and Singapore?
- 0.0%, with Bahrain ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Bahrain and Singapore?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Bahrain and Singapore rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Bahrain ranks 1st and Singapore 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.