Canada vs Norway: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Canada

82.9%

in 2025

Norway

83.6%

in 2025

Canada rank

61st

Norway rank

59th

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

Norway currently reports 83.6% against 82.9% in Canada, a difference of 0.7%.

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

Canada ranks 61st and Norway ranks 59th of 238 countries.

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: 07 August 2026

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