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

Barbados

59.7%

in 2025

Jamaica

59.4%

in 2025

Barbados rank

142nd

Jamaica rank

145th

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

Barbados currently reports 59.7% against 59.4% in Jamaica, a difference of 0.3%.

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

Barbados ranks 142nd and Jamaica ranks 145th 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.