China vs Nepal: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

China

66.3%

in 2025

Nepal

67.0%

in 2025

China rank

117th

Nepal rank

115th

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

Nepal currently reports 67.0% against 66.3% in China, a difference of 0.7%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was China ahead.

China ranks 117th and Nepal ranks 115th 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.