Barbados vs Nicaragua: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Barbados
59.7%
in 2025
Nicaragua
59.4%
in 2025
Barbados rank
142nd
Nicaragua rank
144th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Barbados
- Nicaragua
How they compare
Barbados currently reports 59.7% against 59.4% in Nicaragua, a difference of 0.3%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Nicaragua ahead.
Barbados ranks 142nd and Nicaragua ranks 144th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Barbados averaged higher in 7 and Nicaragua in 33.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Barbados | Nicaragua | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Nicaragua |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Nicaragua |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Nicaragua |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Nicaragua |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | Nicaragua |
| 1500s | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | Nicaragua |
| 1600s | 0.1% | 1.2% | 1.1% | Nicaragua |
| 1700s | 0.2% | 3.5% | 3.3% | Nicaragua |
| 1710s | 0.2% | 4.0% | 3.8% | Nicaragua |
| 1720s | 0.2% | 4.3% | 4.1% | Nicaragua |
| 1730s | 0.3% | 4.8% | 4.5% | Nicaragua |
| 1740s | 0.3% | 5.2% | 4.9% | Nicaragua |
| 1750s | 0.4% | 5.7% | 5.3% | Nicaragua |
| 1760s | 0.5% | 6.2% | 5.7% | Nicaragua |
| 1770s | 0.6% | 6.8% | 6.2% | Nicaragua |
| 1780s | 0.8% | 7.5% | 6.7% | Nicaragua |
| 1790s | 1.0% | 8.2% | 7.2% | Nicaragua |
| 1800s | 1.3% | 9.0% | 7.7% | Nicaragua |
| 1810s | 1.6% | 9.8% | 8.3% | Nicaragua |
| 1820s | 2.0% | 10.8% | 8.8% | Nicaragua |
| 1830s | 2.5% | 11.8% | 9.3% | Nicaragua |
| 1840s | 3.1% | 12.9% | 9.8% | Nicaragua |
| 1850s | 3.9% | 14.2% | 10.3% | Nicaragua |
| 1860s | 4.8% | 15.5% | 10.7% | Nicaragua |
| 1870s | 6.0% | 17.0% | 11.0% | Nicaragua |
| 1880s | 7.6% | 18.6% | 11.1% | Nicaragua |
| 1890s | 9.5% | 20.4% | 10.9% | Nicaragua |
| 1900s | 11.8% | 22.3% | 10.5% | Nicaragua |
| 1910s | 14.8% | 24.5% | 9.7% | Nicaragua |
| 1920s | 18.5% | 26.8% | 8.3% | Nicaragua |
| 1930s | 23.1% | 29.3% | 6.3% | Nicaragua |
| 1940s | 28.8% | 32.1% | 3.3% | Nicaragua |
| 1950s | 40.0% | 36.6% | 3.4% | Barbados |
| 1960s | 42.1% | 42.5% | 0.4% | Nicaragua |
| 1970s | 54.3% | 49.2% | 5.1% | Barbados |
| 1980s | 63.5% | 52.3% | 11.3% | Barbados |
| 1990s | 63.2% | 54.3% | 8.9% | Barbados |
| 2000s | 60.9% | 55.9% | 5.0% | Barbados |
| 2010s | 59.2% | 57.7% | 1.5% | Barbados |
| 2020s | 59.4% | 59.1% | 0.4% | Barbados |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Barbados or Nicaragua?
- Barbados, at 59.7% against 59.4% in Nicaragua as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Barbados and Nicaragua?
- 0.3%, with Barbados ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Barbados and Nicaragua?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Barbados and Nicaragua rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Barbados ranks 142nd and Nicaragua ranks 144th 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.