Comoros vs Eritrea: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Comoros

33.9%

in 2025

Eritrea

34.5%

in 2025

Comoros rank

204th

Eritrea rank

202nd

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

Eritrea currently reports 34.5% against 33.9% in Comoros, a difference of 0.6%.

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

Comoros ranks 204th and Eritrea ranks 202nd 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.