Chile vs Denmark: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Chile
89.2%
in 2025
Denmark
88.8%
in 2025
Chile rank
42nd
Denmark rank
45th

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

  • Chile
  • Denmark
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How they compare

Chile currently reports 89.2% against 88.8% in Denmark, a difference of 0.3%.

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

Chile ranks 42nd and Denmark ranks 45th of 238 countries.

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