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
How they compare
China currently reports 66.3% against 66.2% in Panama, a difference of 0.1%.
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.
Across the 40 decades both report, China averaged higher in 13 and Panama in 27.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | China | Panama | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 5.0% | 0.0% | 5.0% | China |
| 1100s | 5.0% | 0.0% | 5.0% | China |
| 1200s | 5.0% | 0.0% | 5.0% | China |
| 1300s | 5.0% | 0.0% | 5.0% | China |
| 1400s | 5.0% | 0.1% | 4.9% | China |
| 1500s | 6.5% | 0.4% | 6.1% | China |
| 1600s | 7.0% | 1.2% | 5.8% | China |
| 1700s | 6.0% | 3.6% | 2.4% | China |
| 1710s | 6.0% | 4.0% | 2.0% | China |
| 1720s | 6.0% | 4.4% | 1.6% | China |
| 1730s | 6.0% | 4.8% | 1.2% | China |
| 1740s | 6.0% | 5.3% | 0.7% | China |
| 1750s | 6.0% | 5.8% | 0.2% | China |
| 1760s | 6.0% | 6.4% | 0.4% | Panama |
| 1770s | 6.0% | 7.0% | 1.0% | Panama |
| 1780s | 6.0% | 7.6% | 1.6% | Panama |
| 1790s | 6.0% | 8.3% | 2.3% | Panama |
| 1800s | 6.0% | 9.1% | 3.1% | Panama |
| 1810s | 6.0% | 10.0% | 4.0% | Panama |
| 1820s | 6.0% | 11.0% | 5.0% | Panama |
| 1830s | 6.1% | 12.0% | 6.0% | Panama |
| 1840s | 6.1% | 13.2% | 7.0% | Panama |
| 1850s | 6.2% | 14.4% | 8.2% | Panama |
| 1860s | 6.2% | 15.8% | 9.5% | Panama |
| 1870s | 6.3% | 17.3% | 11.0% | Panama |
| 1880s | 6.4% | 18.9% | 12.6% | Panama |
| 1890s | 6.4% | 20.7% | 14.3% | Panama |
| 1900s | 6.5% | 22.7% | 16.2% | Panama |
| 1910s | 6.6% | 24.9% | 18.3% | Panama |
| 1920s | 6.6% | 27.2% | 20.6% | Panama |
| 1930s | 7.0% | 29.8% | 22.8% | Panama |
| 1940s | 8.0% | 32.7% | 24.7% | Panama |
| 1950s | 14.0% | 39.4% | 25.3% | Panama |
| 1960s | 18.0% | 44.2% | 26.2% | Panama |
| 1970s | 17.5% | 48.6% | 31.1% | Panama |
| 1980s | 23.0% | 51.4% | 28.4% | Panama |
| 1990s | 29.7% | 57.8% | 28.1% | Panama |
| 2000s | 42.4% | 63.8% | 21.4% | Panama |
| 2010s | 56.5% | 65.5% | 9.0% | Panama |
| 2020s | 65.2% | 65.9% | 0.7% | Panama |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, China or Panama?
- China, at 66.3% against 66.2% in Panama as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between China and Panama?
- 0.1%, with China ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for China and Panama?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do China and Panama rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- China ranks 117th and Panama ranks 118th 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.