Statizoid

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

China
66.3%
in 2025
Panama
66.2%
in 2025
China rank
117th
Panama rank
118th

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

  • China
  • Panama
0204060100015122025

How they compare

China currently reports 66.3% against 66.2% in Panama, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was China ahead.

China ranks 117th and Panama ranks 118th of 238 countries.

Individual pages

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 modelled historical data.