Bulgaria vs Dominica: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Bulgaria
74.2%
in 2025
Dominica
74.0%
in 2025
Bulgaria rank
91st
Dominica rank
92nd
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Bulgaria
- Dominica
How they compare
Bulgaria currently reports 74.2% against 74.0% in Dominica, a difference of 0.2%.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Bulgaria ahead.
Bulgaria ranks 91st and Dominica ranks 92nd of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Bulgaria averaged higher in 39 and Dominica in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Bulgaria | Dominica | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Bulgaria |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Bulgaria |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Bulgaria |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Bulgaria |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Bulgaria |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | Bulgaria |
| 1600s | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.3% | Bulgaria |
| 1700s | 1.0% | 0.1% | 0.9% | Bulgaria |
| 1710s | 1.0% | 0.1% | 0.9% | Bulgaria |
| 1720s | 1.0% | 0.1% | 0.9% | Bulgaria |
| 1730s | 1.0% | 0.2% | 0.8% | Bulgaria |
| 1740s | 1.0% | 0.2% | 0.8% | Bulgaria |
| 1750s | 1.0% | 0.3% | 0.7% | Bulgaria |
| 1760s | 1.0% | 0.3% | 0.7% | Bulgaria |
| 1770s | 1.0% | 0.4% | 0.6% | Bulgaria |
| 1780s | 1.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | Bulgaria |
| 1790s | 1.0% | 0.6% | 0.4% | Bulgaria |
| 1800s | 1.0% | 0.8% | 0.2% | Bulgaria |
| 1810s | 1.2% | 1.0% | 0.3% | Bulgaria |
| 1820s | 1.5% | 1.2% | 0.3% | Bulgaria |
| 1830s | 1.9% | 1.5% | 0.4% | Bulgaria |
| 1840s | 2.4% | 1.9% | 0.5% | Bulgaria |
| 1850s | 3.0% | 2.3% | 0.6% | Bulgaria |
| 1860s | 3.7% | 2.9% | 0.8% | Bulgaria |
| 1870s | 4.6% | 3.7% | 1.0% | Bulgaria |
| 1880s | 5.8% | 4.6% | 1.2% | Bulgaria |
| 1890s | 7.2% | 5.7% | 1.5% | Bulgaria |
| 1900s | 9.0% | 7.2% | 1.9% | Bulgaria |
| 1910s | 11.3% | 9.0% | 2.3% | Bulgaria |
| 1920s | 14.1% | 11.2% | 2.9% | Bulgaria |
| 1930s | 17.7% | 14.0% | 3.7% | Bulgaria |
| 1940s | 22.1% | 20.0% | 2.1% | Bulgaria |
| 1950s | 31.4% | 36.5% | 5.2% | Dominica |
| 1960s | 43.8% | 38.1% | 5.7% | Bulgaria |
| 1970s | 57.4% | 41.4% | 16.0% | Bulgaria |
| 1980s | 65.0% | 54.4% | 10.5% | Bulgaria |
| 1990s | 67.6% | 64.8% | 2.8% | Bulgaria |
| 2000s | 70.0% | 66.2% | 3.8% | Bulgaria |
| 2010s | 73.0% | 69.7% | 3.3% | Bulgaria |
| 2020s | 73.7% | 72.9% | 0.8% | Bulgaria |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Bulgaria or Dominica?
- Bulgaria, at 74.2% against 74.0% in Dominica as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Bulgaria and Dominica?
- 0.2%, with Bulgaria ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Bulgaria and Dominica?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Bulgaria and Dominica rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Bulgaria ranks 91st and Dominica ranks 92nd 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.