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Barbados vs Fiji: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Barbados
59.7%
in 2025
Fiji
59.5%
in 2025
Barbados rank
142nd
Fiji rank
143rd

Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time

  • Barbados
  • Fiji
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How they compare

Barbados currently reports 59.7% against 59.5% in Fiji, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Fiji ahead.

Barbados ranks 142nd and Fiji ranks 143rd of 238 countries.

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About this data

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