Chad vs Eswatini: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Chad
27.6%
in 2025
Eswatini
26.7%
in 2025
Chad rank
218th
Eswatini rank
219th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Chad
- Eswatini
How they compare
Chad currently reports 27.6% against 26.7% in Eswatini, a difference of 0.9%.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Chad ahead.
Chad ranks 218th and Eswatini ranks 219th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Chad averaged higher in 36 and Eswatini in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Chad | Eswatini | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Chad |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Chad |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Chad |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Chad |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Chad |
| 1500s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Chad |
| 1600s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | Chad |
| 1700s | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.3% | Chad |
| 1710s | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.3% | Chad |
| 1720s | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.3% | Chad |
| 1730s | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.4% | Chad |
| 1740s | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.4% | Chad |
| 1750s | 0.7% | 0.3% | 0.4% | Chad |
| 1760s | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.5% | Chad |
| 1770s | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.5% | Chad |
| 1780s | 0.9% | 0.4% | 0.6% | Chad |
| 1790s | 1.0% | 0.4% | 0.6% | Chad |
| 1800s | 1.1% | 0.4% | 0.7% | Chad |
| 1810s | 1.2% | 0.5% | 0.7% | Chad |
| 1820s | 1.3% | 0.5% | 0.8% | Chad |
| 1830s | 1.5% | 0.6% | 0.9% | Chad |
| 1840s | 1.6% | 0.6% | 1.0% | Chad |
| 1850s | 1.8% | 0.7% | 1.1% | Chad |
| 1860s | 1.9% | 0.8% | 1.2% | Chad |
| 1870s | 2.1% | 0.8% | 1.3% | Chad |
| 1880s | 2.3% | 0.9% | 1.4% | Chad |
| 1890s | 2.5% | 1.0% | 1.5% | Chad |
| 1900s | 2.8% | 1.1% | 1.7% | Chad |
| 1910s | 3.0% | 1.2% | 1.8% | Chad |
| 1920s | 3.3% | 1.3% | 2.0% | Chad |
| 1930s | 3.6% | 1.5% | 2.2% | Chad |
| 1940s | 4.0% | 1.6% | 2.4% | Chad |
| 1950s | 5.2% | 2.3% | 2.9% | Chad |
| 1960s | 8.4% | 6.4% | 2.0% | Chad |
| 1970s | 15.1% | 13.9% | 1.2% | Chad |
| 1980s | 20.2% | 21.6% | 1.4% | Eswatini |
| 1990s | 21.5% | 23.0% | 1.6% | Eswatini |
| 2000s | 21.7% | 22.4% | 0.6% | Eswatini |
| 2010s | 22.8% | 23.2% | 0.4% | Eswatini |
| 2020s | 26.1% | 25.6% | 0.4% | Chad |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Chad or Eswatini?
- Chad, at 27.6% against 26.7% in Eswatini as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Chad and Eswatini?
- 0.9%, with Chad ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Chad and Eswatini?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Chad and Eswatini rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Chad ranks 218th and Eswatini ranks 219th 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.