Statizoid

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

Barbados
59.7%
in 2025
Mauritania
61.5%
in 2025
Barbados rank
142nd
Mauritania rank
139th

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

  • Barbados
  • Mauritania
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How they compare

Mauritania currently reports 61.5% against 59.7% in Barbados, a difference of 1.8%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Mauritania ahead.

Barbados ranks 142nd and Mauritania ranks 139th 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
Last refreshed

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