Brazil vs Libya: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Brazil
88.2%
in 2025
Libya
87.9%
in 2025
Brazil rank
47th
Libya rank
48th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Brazil
- Libya
How they compare
Brazil currently reports 88.2% against 87.9% in Libya, a difference of 0.3%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Libya ahead.
Brazil ranks 47th and Libya ranks 48th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Brazil averaged higher in 28 and Libya in 12.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Brazil | Libya | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | Libya |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | Libya |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | Libya |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.5% | Libya |
| 1400s | 0.1% | 0.8% | 0.6% | Libya |
| 1500s | 0.4% | 1.0% | 0.6% | Libya |
| 1600s | 1.2% | 1.3% | 0.1% | Libya |
| 1700s | 3.6% | 1.8% | 1.8% | Brazil |
| 1710s | 4.1% | 2.0% | 2.1% | Brazil |
| 1720s | 4.5% | 2.2% | 2.3% | Brazil |
| 1730s | 4.9% | 2.4% | 2.5% | Brazil |
| 1740s | 5.4% | 2.6% | 2.7% | Brazil |
| 1750s | 5.9% | 2.9% | 3.0% | Brazil |
| 1760s | 6.4% | 3.2% | 3.2% | Brazil |
| 1770s | 7.0% | 3.5% | 3.6% | Brazil |
| 1780s | 7.7% | 3.8% | 3.9% | Brazil |
| 1790s | 8.4% | 4.2% | 4.3% | Brazil |
| 1800s | 9.2% | 4.6% | 4.7% | Brazil |
| 1810s | 10.1% | 5.0% | 5.1% | Brazil |
| 1820s | 11.1% | 5.5% | 5.6% | Brazil |
| 1830s | 12.1% | 6.0% | 6.1% | Brazil |
| 1840s | 13.3% | 6.6% | 6.7% | Brazil |
| 1850s | 14.6% | 7.2% | 7.4% | Brazil |
| 1860s | 15.9% | 7.9% | 8.1% | Brazil |
| 1870s | 17.5% | 8.6% | 8.8% | Brazil |
| 1880s | 19.1% | 9.5% | 9.7% | Brazil |
| 1890s | 20.9% | 10.4% | 10.6% | Brazil |
| 1900s | 22.9% | 11.3% | 11.6% | Brazil |
| 1910s | 25.1% | 12.4% | 12.7% | Brazil |
| 1920s | 27.5% | 13.6% | 13.9% | Brazil |
| 1930s | 30.1% | 14.9% | 15.2% | Brazil |
| 1940s | 33.0% | 16.3% | 16.7% | Brazil |
| 1950s | 40.2% | 22.5% | 17.6% | Brazil |
| 1960s | 48.3% | 28.2% | 20.1% | Brazil |
| 1970s | 59.6% | 59.5% | 0.1% | Brazil |
| 1980s | 71.1% | 75.5% | 4.5% | Libya |
| 1990s | 77.6% | 83.8% | 6.2% | Libya |
| 2000s | 82.7% | 87.9% | 5.1% | Libya |
| 2010s | 85.5% | 87.9% | 2.4% | Libya |
| 2020s | 87.5% | 87.9% | 0.3% | Libya |
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 Libya?
- Brazil, at 88.2% against 87.9% in Libya as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Brazil and Libya?
- 0.3%, with Brazil ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Brazil and Libya?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Brazil and Libya rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Brazil ranks 47th and Libya ranks 48th 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.