Statizoid

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
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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.

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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.