Belize vs Egypt: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Belize

41.6%

in 2025

Egypt

42.9%

in 2025

Belize rank

184th

Egypt rank

182nd

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

Egypt currently reports 42.9% against 41.6% in Belize, a difference of 1.3%.

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

Belize ranks 184th and Egypt ranks 182nd 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.