Brunei vs El Salvador: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Brunei
75.0%
in 2025
El Salvador
75.5%
in 2025
Brunei rank
89th
El Salvador rank
87th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Brunei
- El Salvador
How they compare
El Salvador currently reports 75.5% against 75.0% in Brunei, a difference of 0.5%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Brunei ahead.
Brunei ranks 89th and El Salvador ranks 87th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Brunei averaged higher in 28 and El Salvador in 12.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Brunei | El Salvador | 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% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Brunei |
| 1500s | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | Brunei |
| 1600s | 0.9% | 0.7% | 0.2% | Brunei |
| 1700s | 2.7% | 2.0% | 0.7% | Brunei |
| 1710s | 3.0% | 2.2% | 0.9% | Brunei |
| 1720s | 3.3% | 2.4% | 0.9% | Brunei |
| 1730s | 3.6% | 2.7% | 0.9% | Brunei |
| 1740s | 4.0% | 3.1% | 0.9% | Brunei |
| 1750s | 4.3% | 3.5% | 0.9% | Brunei |
| 1760s | 4.8% | 3.9% | 0.9% | Brunei |
| 1770s | 5.2% | 4.4% | 0.8% | Brunei |
| 1780s | 5.7% | 4.9% | 0.8% | Brunei |
| 1790s | 6.2% | 5.5% | 0.7% | Brunei |
| 1800s | 6.8% | 6.2% | 0.6% | Brunei |
| 1810s | 7.5% | 7.0% | 0.5% | Brunei |
| 1820s | 8.2% | 7.9% | 0.3% | Brunei |
| 1830s | 9.0% | 8.9% | 0.1% | Brunei |
| 1840s | 9.8% | 10.0% | 0.2% | El Salvador |
| 1850s | 10.8% | 11.2% | 0.5% | El Salvador |
| 1860s | 11.8% | 12.6% | 0.8% | El Salvador |
| 1870s | 12.9% | 14.2% | 1.3% | El Salvador |
| 1880s | 14.2% | 16.0% | 1.9% | El Salvador |
| 1890s | 15.5% | 18.0% | 2.5% | El Salvador |
| 1900s | 17.0% | 20.3% | 3.3% | El Salvador |
| 1910s | 18.6% | 22.8% | 4.2% | El Salvador |
| 1920s | 20.4% | 25.6% | 5.3% | El Salvador |
| 1930s | 22.3% | 28.8% | 6.5% | El Salvador |
| 1940s | 24.4% | 32.5% | 8.0% | El Salvador |
| 1950s | 33.8% | 37.4% | 3.6% | El Salvador |
| 1960s | 53.2% | 38.9% | 14.3% | Brunei |
| 1970s | 62.1% | 40.6% | 21.6% | Brunei |
| 1980s | 61.2% | 45.5% | 15.7% | Brunei |
| 1990s | 68.4% | 52.2% | 16.3% | Brunei |
| 2000s | 73.2% | 60.6% | 12.7% | Brunei |
| 2010s | 75.0% | 69.1% | 5.9% | Brunei |
| 2020s | 74.8% | 74.3% | 0.5% | 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 El Salvador?
- El Salvador, at 75.5% against 75.0% in Brunei as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Brunei and El Salvador?
- 0.5%, with El Salvador ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Brunei and El Salvador?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Brunei and El Salvador rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Brunei ranks 89th and El Salvador ranks 87th of 238 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) β 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.