Congo vs Nigeria: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Congo

64.1%

in 2025

Nigeria

63.8%

in 2025

Congo rank

126th

Nigeria rank

128th

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

Congo currently reports 64.1% against 63.8% in Nigeria, a difference of 0.3%.

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

Congo ranks 126th and Nigeria ranks 128th 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.