Chile vs Venezuela: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Chile
89.2%
in 2025
Venezuela
89.3%
in 2025
Chile rank
42nd
Venezuela rank
41st
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Chile
- Venezuela
How they compare
Venezuela currently reports 89.3% against 89.2% in Chile, a difference of 0.1%.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Venezuela ahead.
Chile ranks 42nd and Venezuela ranks 41st of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Chile averaged higher in 8 and Venezuela in 32.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Chile | Venezuela | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Venezuela |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Venezuela |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Venezuela |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Venezuela |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1% | Venezuela |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.4% | Venezuela |
| 1600s | 0.3% | 1.5% | 1.1% | Venezuela |
| 1700s | 1.0% | 4.4% | 3.4% | Venezuela |
| 1710s | 1.4% | 5.0% | 3.5% | Venezuela |
| 1720s | 1.7% | 5.4% | 3.8% | Venezuela |
| 1730s | 1.9% | 5.9% | 4.0% | Venezuela |
| 1740s | 2.3% | 6.5% | 4.3% | Venezuela |
| 1750s | 2.6% | 7.1% | 4.5% | Venezuela |
| 1760s | 3.1% | 7.8% | 4.7% | Venezuela |
| 1770s | 3.6% | 8.5% | 5.0% | Venezuela |
| 1780s | 4.2% | 9.4% | 5.2% | Venezuela |
| 1790s | 4.9% | 10.3% | 5.4% | Venezuela |
| 1800s | 5.7% | 11.2% | 5.5% | Venezuela |
| 1810s | 6.6% | 12.3% | 5.7% | Venezuela |
| 1820s | 7.7% | 13.5% | 5.7% | Venezuela |
| 1830s | 9.0% | 14.8% | 5.7% | Venezuela |
| 1840s | 10.5% | 16.2% | 5.6% | Venezuela |
| 1850s | 12.3% | 17.7% | 5.4% | Venezuela |
| 1860s | 14.3% | 19.4% | 5.0% | Venezuela |
| 1870s | 16.7% | 21.2% | 4.5% | Venezuela |
| 1880s | 19.5% | 23.3% | 3.7% | Venezuela |
| 1890s | 22.8% | 25.5% | 2.7% | Venezuela |
| 1900s | 26.6% | 27.9% | 1.3% | Venezuela |
| 1910s | 31.0% | 30.6% | 0.4% | Chile |
| 1920s | 36.2% | 33.5% | 2.7% | Chile |
| 1930s | 42.2% | 36.6% | 5.5% | Chile |
| 1940s | 49.2% | 40.1% | 9.1% | Chile |
| 1950s | 62.7% | 57.2% | 5.5% | Chile |
| 1960s | 71.3% | 66.4% | 4.9% | Chile |
| 1970s | 78.4% | 75.4% | 3.0% | Chile |
| 1980s | 82.5% | 81.5% | 1.0% | Chile |
| 1990s | 84.4% | 86.1% | 1.7% | Venezuela |
| 2000s | 86.7% | 88.6% | 1.9% | Venezuela |
| 2010s | 87.5% | 88.9% | 1.5% | Venezuela |
| 2020s | 88.7% | 89.2% | 0.5% | Venezuela |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Chile or Venezuela?
- Venezuela, at 89.3% against 89.2% in Chile as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Chile and Venezuela?
- 0.1%, with Venezuela ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Chile and Venezuela?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Chile and Venezuela rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Chile ranks 42nd and Venezuela ranks 41st 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.