Cameroon vs Cote d'Ivoire: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Cameroon
55.7%
in 2025
Cote d'Ivoire
54.5%
in 2025
Cameroon rank
158th
Cote d'Ivoire rank
161st

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

  • Cameroon
  • Cote d'Ivoire
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How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 55.7% against 54.5% in Cote d'Ivoire, a difference of 1.1%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Cameroon ahead.

Cameroon ranks 158th and Cote d'Ivoire ranks 161st 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.