Canada vs Germany: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Canada
82.9%
in 2025
Germany
82.1%
in 2025
Canada rank
61st
Germany rank
62nd
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Canada
- Germany
How they compare
Canada currently reports 82.9% against 82.1% in Germany, a difference of 0.8%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Germany ahead.
Canada ranks 61st and Germany ranks 62nd of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Canada averaged higher in 13 and Germany in 27.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Canada | Germany | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 2.2% | 2.2% | Germany |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 3.3% | 3.3% | Germany |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 4.9% | 4.9% | Germany |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 7.4% | 7.4% | Germany |
| 1400s | 0.1% | 11.1% | 11.0% | Germany |
| 1500s | 0.2% | 8.2% | 8.0% | Germany |
| 1600s | 0.7% | 8.5% | 7.8% | Germany |
| 1700s | 2.0% | 7.7% | 5.7% | Germany |
| 1710s | 2.0% | 8.1% | 6.1% | Germany |
| 1720s | 2.3% | 8.5% | 6.2% | Germany |
| 1730s | 2.7% | 8.9% | 6.2% | Germany |
| 1740s | 3.1% | 9.4% | 6.2% | Germany |
| 1750s | 3.7% | 9.8% | 6.2% | Germany |
| 1760s | 4.3% | 10.3% | 6.0% | Germany |
| 1770s | 5.0% | 10.8% | 5.8% | Germany |
| 1780s | 5.8% | 11.4% | 5.5% | Germany |
| 1790s | 6.8% | 11.9% | 5.1% | Germany |
| 1800s | 7.9% | 12.5% | 4.6% | Germany |
| 1810s | 9.3% | 13.2% | 3.9% | Germany |
| 1820s | 10.8% | 13.4% | 2.6% | Germany |
| 1830s | 12.6% | 13.7% | 1.1% | Germany |
| 1840s | 14.7% | 14.0% | 0.7% | Canada |
| 1850s | 17.2% | 14.3% | 2.9% | Canada |
| 1860s | 20.0% | 14.5% | 5.5% | Canada |
| 1870s | 23.4% | 14.8% | 8.5% | Canada |
| 1880s | 27.3% | 15.1% | 12.1% | Canada |
| 1890s | 31.8% | 15.4% | 16.4% | Canada |
| 1900s | 37.5% | 21.8% | 15.7% | Canada |
| 1910s | 45.4% | 27.3% | 18.2% | Canada |
| 1920s | 49.5% | 34.1% | 15.5% | Canada |
| 1930s | 56.0% | 42.6% | 13.4% | Canada |
| 1940s | 60.0% | 53.2% | 6.8% | Canada |
| 1950s | 65.5% | 72.9% | 7.4% | Germany |
| 1960s | 72.4% | 77.9% | 5.5% | Germany |
| 1970s | 75.8% | 79.8% | 4.0% | Germany |
| 1980s | 76.2% | 80.0% | 3.8% | Germany |
| 1990s | 77.5% | 80.0% | 2.6% | Germany |
| 2000s | 79.8% | 80.2% | 0.4% | Germany |
| 2010s | 81.3% | 80.7% | 0.6% | Canada |
| 2020s | 82.4% | 81.8% | 0.6% | Canada |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Canada or Germany?
- Canada, at 82.9% against 82.1% in Germany as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Canada and Germany?
- 0.8%, with Canada ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and Germany?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Canada and Germany rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Canada ranks 61st and Germany ranks 62nd 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.