Congo vs Gambia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Congo
64.1%
in 2025
Gambia
65.0%
in 2025
Congo rank
126th
Gambia rank
123rd
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Congo
- Gambia
How they compare
Gambia currently reports 65.0% against 64.1% in Congo, a difference of 0.9%.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Congo ahead.
Congo ranks 126th and Gambia ranks 123rd of 238 countries.
Congo has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Congo | Gambia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Congo |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Congo |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Congo |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Congo |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Congo |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Congo |
| 1600s | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | Congo |
| 1700s | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.1% | Congo |
| 1710s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | Congo |
| 1720s | 1.1% | 1.1% | 0.1% | Congo |
| 1730s | 1.3% | 1.2% | 0.1% | Congo |
| 1740s | 1.5% | 1.3% | 0.2% | Congo |
| 1750s | 1.7% | 1.4% | 0.3% | Congo |
| 1760s | 1.9% | 1.5% | 0.4% | Congo |
| 1770s | 2.2% | 1.7% | 0.5% | Congo |
| 1780s | 2.5% | 1.8% | 0.7% | Congo |
| 1790s | 2.9% | 2.0% | 0.9% | Congo |
| 1800s | 3.3% | 2.2% | 1.1% | Congo |
| 1810s | 3.8% | 2.4% | 1.4% | Congo |
| 1820s | 4.3% | 2.6% | 1.7% | Congo |
| 1830s | 4.9% | 2.9% | 2.0% | Congo |
| 1840s | 5.6% | 3.2% | 2.4% | Congo |
| 1850s | 6.4% | 3.5% | 2.9% | Congo |
| 1860s | 7.3% | 3.8% | 3.5% | Congo |
| 1870s | 8.4% | 4.1% | 4.2% | Congo |
| 1880s | 9.6% | 4.5% | 5.0% | Congo |
| 1890s | 10.9% | 5.0% | 6.0% | Congo |
| 1900s | 12.5% | 5.4% | 7.0% | Congo |
| 1910s | 14.3% | 6.0% | 8.3% | Congo |
| 1920s | 16.3% | 6.5% | 9.8% | Congo |
| 1930s | 18.6% | 7.2% | 11.5% | Congo |
| 1940s | 21.3% | 7.8% | 13.5% | Congo |
| 1950s | 34.1% | 10.1% | 24.0% | Congo |
| 1960s | 37.3% | 9.8% | 27.5% | Congo |
| 1970s | 40.8% | 18.6% | 22.1% | Congo |
| 1980s | 51.3% | 31.7% | 19.7% | Congo |
| 1990s | 56.3% | 39.6% | 16.8% | Congo |
| 2000s | 60.9% | 51.6% | 9.2% | Congo |
| 2010s | 63.0% | 58.9% | 4.1% | Congo |
| 2020s | 63.8% | 63.6% | 0.2% | Congo |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Congo or Gambia?
- Gambia, at 65.0% against 64.1% in Congo as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Congo and Gambia?
- 0.9%, with Gambia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Congo and Gambia?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Congo and Gambia rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Congo ranks 126th and Gambia ranks 123rd 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.