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Bolivia vs Mongolia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Bolivia
71.6%
in 2025
Mongolia
71.1%
in 2025
Bolivia rank
99th
Mongolia rank
101st

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

  • Bolivia
  • Mongolia
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How they compare

Bolivia currently reports 71.6% against 71.1% in Mongolia, a difference of 0.4%.

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

Bolivia ranks 99th and Mongolia ranks 101st of 238 countries.

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About this data

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
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Share of the population living in urban areas, combining UN estimates with modelled historical data.