Brunei vs Bulgaria: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Brunei
75.0%
in 2025
Bulgaria
74.2%
in 2025
Brunei rank
89th
Bulgaria rank
91st
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
How they compare
Brunei currently reports 75.0% against 74.2% in Bulgaria, a difference of 0.8%.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Brunei ahead.
Brunei ranks 89th and Bulgaria ranks 91st of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Brunei averaged higher in 39 and Bulgaria in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Brunei | Bulgaria | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Brunei |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Brunei |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Brunei |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Brunei |
| 1400s | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | Brunei |
| 1500s | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | Brunei |
| 1600s | 0.9% | 0.3% | 0.6% | Brunei |
| 1700s | 2.7% | 1.0% | 1.7% | Brunei |
| 1710s | 3.0% | 1.0% | 2.0% | Brunei |
| 1720s | 3.3% | 1.0% | 2.3% | Brunei |
| 1730s | 3.6% | 1.0% | 2.6% | Brunei |
| 1740s | 4.0% | 1.0% | 3.0% | Brunei |
| 1750s | 4.3% | 1.0% | 3.3% | Brunei |
| 1760s | 4.8% | 1.0% | 3.8% | Brunei |
| 1770s | 5.2% | 1.0% | 4.2% | Brunei |
| 1780s | 5.7% | 1.0% | 4.7% | Brunei |
| 1790s | 6.2% | 1.0% | 5.2% | Brunei |
| 1800s | 6.8% | 1.0% | 5.8% | Brunei |
| 1810s | 7.5% | 1.2% | 6.3% | Brunei |
| 1820s | 8.2% | 1.5% | 6.7% | Brunei |
| 1830s | 9.0% | 1.9% | 7.1% | Brunei |
| 1840s | 9.8% | 2.4% | 7.5% | Brunei |
| 1850s | 10.8% | 3.0% | 7.8% | Brunei |
| 1860s | 11.8% | 3.7% | 8.1% | Brunei |
| 1870s | 12.9% | 4.6% | 8.3% | Brunei |
| 1880s | 14.2% | 5.8% | 8.4% | Brunei |
| 1890s | 15.5% | 7.2% | 8.3% | Brunei |
| 1900s | 17.0% | 9.0% | 7.9% | Brunei |
| 1910s | 18.6% | 11.3% | 7.3% | Brunei |
| 1920s | 20.4% | 14.1% | 6.2% | Brunei |
| 1930s | 22.3% | 17.7% | 4.7% | Brunei |
| 1940s | 24.4% | 22.1% | 2.4% | Brunei |
| 1950s | 33.8% | 31.4% | 2.4% | Brunei |
| 1960s | 53.2% | 43.8% | 9.3% | Brunei |
| 1970s | 62.1% | 57.4% | 4.8% | Brunei |
| 1980s | 61.2% | 65.0% | 3.8% | Bulgaria |
| 1990s | 68.4% | 67.6% | 0.9% | Brunei |
| 2000s | 73.2% | 70.0% | 3.2% | Brunei |
| 2010s | 75.0% | 73.0% | 2.0% | Brunei |
| 2020s | 74.8% | 73.7% | 1.2% | Brunei |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Brunei or Bulgaria?
- Brunei, at 75.0% against 74.2% in Bulgaria as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Brunei and Bulgaria?
- 0.8%, with Brunei ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Brunei and Bulgaria?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Brunei and Bulgaria rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Brunei ranks 89th and Bulgaria ranks 91st 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 modelled historical data.