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

Barbados

59.7%

in 2025

Poland

60.1%

in 2025

Barbados rank

142nd

Poland rank

141st

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

Poland currently reports 60.1% against 59.7% in Barbados, a difference of 0.4%.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Poland ahead.

Barbados ranks 142nd and Poland ranks 141st 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.