Benin vs Somalia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Benin

53.4%

in 2025

Somalia

55.1%

in 2025

Benin rank

163rd

Somalia rank

160th

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

Somalia currently reports 55.1% against 53.4% in Benin, a difference of 1.8%.

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

Benin ranks 163rd and Somalia ranks 160th 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.