Cape Verde vs Malaysia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Cape Verde
77.6%
in 2025
Malaysia
77.4%
in 2025
Cape Verde rank
81st
Malaysia rank
82nd
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Cape Verde
- Malaysia
How they compare
Cape Verde currently reports 77.6% against 77.4% in Malaysia, a difference of 0.2%.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 102 shared years of data; in 1600 it was Malaysia ahead.
Cape Verde ranks 81st and Malaysia ranks 82nd of 238 countries.
Malaysia has averaged higher in every one of the 34 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Cape Verde | Malaysia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1600s | 0.4% | 0.7% | 0.3% | Malaysia |
| 1700s | 1.2% | 2.0% | 0.9% | Malaysia |
| 1710s | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1.0% | Malaysia |
| 1720s | 1.4% | 2.5% | 1.1% | Malaysia |
| 1730s | 1.6% | 2.8% | 1.2% | Malaysia |
| 1740s | 1.7% | 3.0% | 1.3% | Malaysia |
| 1750s | 1.9% | 3.3% | 1.4% | Malaysia |
| 1760s | 2.1% | 3.6% | 1.5% | Malaysia |
| 1770s | 2.3% | 4.0% | 1.7% | Malaysia |
| 1780s | 2.5% | 4.3% | 1.9% | Malaysia |
| 1790s | 2.7% | 4.7% | 2.0% | Malaysia |
| 1800s | 3.0% | 5.2% | 2.2% | Malaysia |
| 1810s | 3.3% | 5.7% | 2.4% | Malaysia |
| 1820s | 3.6% | 6.2% | 2.7% | Malaysia |
| 1830s | 3.9% | 6.8% | 2.9% | Malaysia |
| 1840s | 4.3% | 7.5% | 3.2% | Malaysia |
| 1850s | 4.7% | 8.2% | 3.5% | Malaysia |
| 1860s | 5.1% | 9.0% | 3.8% | Malaysia |
| 1870s | 5.6% | 9.8% | 4.2% | Malaysia |
| 1880s | 6.2% | 10.8% | 4.6% | Malaysia |
| 1890s | 6.8% | 11.8% | 5.0% | Malaysia |
| 1900s | 7.4% | 12.9% | 5.5% | Malaysia |
| 1910s | 8.1% | 14.2% | 6.1% | Malaysia |
| 1920s | 8.9% | 15.5% | 6.6% | Malaysia |
| 1930s | 9.7% | 17.0% | 7.3% | Malaysia |
| 1940s | 10.6% | 18.6% | 8.0% | Malaysia |
| 1950s | 6.6% | 23.3% | 16.7% | Malaysia |
| 1960s | 11.4% | 27.6% | 16.3% | Malaysia |
| 1970s | 21.2% | 31.3% | 10.1% | Malaysia |
| 1980s | 32.3% | 40.2% | 8.0% | Malaysia |
| 1990s | 48.9% | 55.1% | 6.2% | Malaysia |
| 2000s | 57.4% | 66.4% | 8.9% | Malaysia |
| 2010s | 66.5% | 73.1% | 6.6% | Malaysia |
| 2020s | 75.4% | 76.2% | 0.8% | Malaysia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Cape Verde or Malaysia?
- Cape Verde, at 77.6% against 77.4% in Malaysia as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Cape Verde and Malaysia?
- 0.2%, with Cape Verde ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Cape Verde and Malaysia?
- 102 years are reported by both, from 1600 to 2025.
- How do Cape Verde and Malaysia rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Cape Verde ranks 81st and Malaysia ranks 82nd 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.