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

Chad

27.6%

in 2025

Tajikistan

26.2%

in 2025

Chad rank

218th

Tajikistan rank

221st

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

Chad currently reports 27.6% against 26.2% in Tajikistan, a difference of 1.4%.

That makes Chad's figure about 1.1 times Tajikistan's.

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

Chad ranks 218th and Tajikistan ranks 221st 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.