Bhutan vs Maldives: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Bhutan

43.4%

in 2025

Maldives

42.5%

in 2025

Bhutan rank

181st

Maldives rank

183rd

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

Bhutan currently reports 43.4% against 42.5% in Maldives, a difference of 0.9%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 76 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Maldives ahead.

Bhutan ranks 181st and Maldives ranks 183rd 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.