Brazil vs Greenland: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Brazil
88.2%
in 2025
Greenland
88.6%
in 2025
Brazil rank
47th
Greenland rank
46th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Brazil
- Greenland
How they compare
Greenland currently reports 88.6% against 88.2% in Brazil, a difference of 0.4%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Brazil ahead.
Brazil ranks 47th and Greenland ranks 46th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Brazil averaged higher in 30 and Greenland in 10.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Brazil | Greenland | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Brazil |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Brazil |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Brazil |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Brazil |
| 1400s | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | Brazil |
| 1500s | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.3% | Brazil |
| 1600s | 1.2% | 0.2% | 1.0% | Brazil |
| 1700s | 3.6% | 0.5% | 3.1% | Brazil |
| 1710s | 4.1% | 0.6% | 3.5% | Brazil |
| 1720s | 4.5% | 0.7% | 3.7% | Brazil |
| 1730s | 4.9% | 0.9% | 4.0% | Brazil |
| 1740s | 5.4% | 1.1% | 4.3% | Brazil |
| 1750s | 5.9% | 1.3% | 4.6% | Brazil |
| 1760s | 6.4% | 1.5% | 4.9% | Brazil |
| 1770s | 7.0% | 1.8% | 5.2% | Brazil |
| 1780s | 7.7% | 2.2% | 5.5% | Brazil |
| 1790s | 8.4% | 2.7% | 5.8% | Brazil |
| 1800s | 9.2% | 3.2% | 6.1% | Brazil |
| 1810s | 10.1% | 3.8% | 6.3% | Brazil |
| 1820s | 11.1% | 4.6% | 6.5% | Brazil |
| 1830s | 12.1% | 5.5% | 6.6% | Brazil |
| 1840s | 13.3% | 6.6% | 6.7% | Brazil |
| 1850s | 14.6% | 7.9% | 6.6% | Brazil |
| 1860s | 15.9% | 9.5% | 6.4% | Brazil |
| 1870s | 17.5% | 11.4% | 6.1% | Brazil |
| 1880s | 19.1% | 13.7% | 5.5% | Brazil |
| 1890s | 20.9% | 16.4% | 4.5% | Brazil |
| 1900s | 22.9% | 19.7% | 3.3% | Brazil |
| 1910s | 25.1% | 23.6% | 1.5% | Brazil |
| 1920s | 27.5% | 28.4% | 0.8% | Greenland |
| 1930s | 30.1% | 34.0% | 3.9% | Greenland |
| 1940s | 33.0% | 40.8% | 7.8% | Greenland |
| 1950s | 40.2% | 52.2% | 12.0% | Greenland |
| 1960s | 48.3% | 66.7% | 18.3% | Greenland |
| 1970s | 59.6% | 74.3% | 14.7% | Greenland |
| 1980s | 71.1% | 78.2% | 7.1% | Greenland |
| 1990s | 77.6% | 80.7% | 3.2% | Greenland |
| 2000s | 82.7% | 82.6% | 0.1% | Brazil |
| 2010s | 85.5% | 85.7% | 0.2% | Greenland |
| 2020s | 87.5% | 87.9% | 0.4% | Greenland |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Brazil or Greenland?
- Greenland, at 88.6% against 88.2% in Brazil as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Brazil and Greenland?
- 0.4%, with Greenland ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and Greenland?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Brazil and Greenland rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Brazil ranks 47th and Greenland ranks 46th 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.