Chad vs Saint Lucia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Chad
27.6%
in 2025
Saint Lucia
29.1%
in 2025
Chad rank
218th
Saint Lucia rank
215th

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

  • Chad
  • Saint Lucia
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How they compare

Saint Lucia currently reports 29.1% against 27.6% in Chad, a difference of 1.5%.

That makes Saint Lucia's figure about 1.1 times Chad's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Chad ahead.

Chad ranks 218th and Saint Lucia ranks 215th of 238 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Chad averaged higher in 17 and Saint Lucia in 23.

Head to head by decade

Decade Chad Saint Lucia 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% 0.2% Chad
1710s 0.5% 0.2% 0.3% Chad
1720s 0.5% 0.3% 0.2% Chad
1730s 0.6% 0.3% 0.2% Chad
1740s 0.6% 0.4% 0.2% Chad
1750s 0.7% 0.5% 0.2% Chad
1760s 0.8% 0.6% 0.2% Chad
1770s 0.8% 0.7% 0.1% Chad
1780s 0.9% 0.9% 0.1% Chad
1790s 1.0% 1.0% 0.0% Saint Lucia
1800s 1.1% 1.2% 0.1% Saint Lucia
1810s 1.2% 1.5% 0.3% Saint Lucia
1820s 1.3% 1.8% 0.5% Saint Lucia
1830s 1.5% 2.2% 0.7% Saint Lucia
1840s 1.6% 2.6% 1.0% Saint Lucia
1850s 1.8% 3.1% 1.3% Saint Lucia
1860s 1.9% 3.7% 1.8% Saint Lucia
1870s 2.1% 4.5% 2.4% Saint Lucia
1880s 2.3% 5.4% 3.0% Saint Lucia
1890s 2.5% 6.4% 3.9% Saint Lucia
1900s 2.8% 7.7% 4.9% Saint Lucia
1910s 3.0% 9.3% 6.2% Saint Lucia
1920s 3.3% 11.1% 7.8% Saint Lucia
1930s 3.6% 13.3% 9.7% Saint Lucia
1940s 4.0% 16.0% 12.0% Saint Lucia
1950s 5.2% 19.5% 14.2% Saint Lucia
1960s 8.4% 21.0% 12.6% Saint Lucia
1970s 15.1% 24.0% 8.9% Saint Lucia
1980s 20.2% 28.0% 7.8% Saint Lucia
1990s 21.5% 29.1% 7.6% Saint Lucia
2000s 21.7% 23.9% 2.1% Saint Lucia
2010s 22.8% 20.4% 2.5% Chad
2020s 26.1% 28.3% 2.2% Saint Lucia

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 Saint Lucia?
Saint Lucia, at 29.1% against 27.6% in Chad as of 2025.
What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Chad and Saint Lucia?
1.5%, with Saint Lucia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Chad and Saint Lucia?
108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
How do Chad and Saint Lucia rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
Chad ranks 218th and Saint Lucia ranks 215th 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

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 modeled historical data.