Benin vs Romania: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Benin
53.4%
in 2025
Romania
52.2%
in 2025
Benin rank
163rd
Romania rank
166th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Benin
- Romania
How they compare
Benin currently reports 53.4% against 52.2% in Romania, a difference of 1.2%.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Romania ahead.
Benin ranks 163rd and Romania ranks 166th of 238 countries.
Romania has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Benin | Romania | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Romania |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Romania |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Romania |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Romania |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Romania |
| 1500s | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | Romania |
| 1600s | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.3% | Romania |
| 1700s | 0.2% | 1.0% | 0.8% | Romania |
| 1710s | 0.2% | 1.0% | 0.8% | Romania |
| 1720s | 0.2% | 1.0% | 0.8% | Romania |
| 1730s | 0.2% | 1.0% | 0.8% | Romania |
| 1740s | 0.3% | 1.0% | 0.7% | Romania |
| 1750s | 0.3% | 1.0% | 0.7% | Romania |
| 1760s | 0.4% | 1.0% | 0.6% | Romania |
| 1770s | 0.4% | 1.0% | 0.6% | Romania |
| 1780s | 0.5% | 1.0% | 0.5% | Romania |
| 1790s | 0.5% | 1.0% | 0.5% | Romania |
| 1800s | 0.6% | 1.0% | 0.4% | Romania |
| 1810s | 0.7% | 1.1% | 0.4% | Romania |
| 1820s | 0.8% | 1.4% | 0.6% | Romania |
| 1830s | 0.9% | 1.8% | 0.9% | Romania |
| 1840s | 1.0% | 2.2% | 1.2% | Romania |
| 1850s | 1.2% | 2.8% | 1.6% | Romania |
| 1860s | 1.4% | 3.5% | 2.1% | Romania |
| 1870s | 1.5% | 4.3% | 2.8% | Romania |
| 1880s | 1.8% | 5.4% | 3.6% | Romania |
| 1890s | 2.0% | 6.7% | 4.7% | Romania |
| 1900s | 2.3% | 8.4% | 6.1% | Romania |
| 1910s | 2.6% | 10.5% | 7.9% | Romania |
| 1920s | 3.0% | 13.2% | 10.2% | Romania |
| 1930s | 3.5% | 16.5% | 13.0% | Romania |
| 1940s | 3.9% | 20.6% | 16.7% | Romania |
| 1950s | 7.8% | 29.8% | 22.0% | Romania |
| 1960s | 12.8% | 37.5% | 24.7% | Romania |
| 1970s | 22.3% | 45.8% | 23.6% | Romania |
| 1980s | 30.9% | 52.1% | 21.2% | Romania |
| 1990s | 36.6% | 53.8% | 17.3% | Romania |
| 2000s | 40.2% | 53.1% | 13.0% | Romania |
| 2010s | 45.7% | 53.6% | 7.9% | Romania |
| 2020s | 51.4% | 52.3% | 0.9% | Romania |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Benin or Romania?
- Benin, at 53.4% against 52.2% in Romania as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Benin and Romania?
- 1.2%, with Benin ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Benin and Romania?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Benin and Romania rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Benin ranks 163rd and Romania ranks 166th 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.