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Burundi vs Ethiopia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Burundi
25.7%
in 2025
Ethiopia
24.1%
in 2025
Burundi rank
223rd
Ethiopia rank
225th

Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time

  • Burundi
  • Ethiopia
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How they compare

Burundi currently reports 25.7% against 24.1% in Ethiopia, a difference of 1.6%.

That makes Burundi's figure about 1.1 times Ethiopia's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Ethiopia ahead.

Burundi ranks 223rd and Ethiopia ranks 225th of 238 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Unit
%
Source
HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
239 places, 24,444 data points, 1000–2025
Last refreshed

Share of the population living in urban areas, combining UN estimates with modelled historical data.