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Cook Islands vs Malaysia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Cook Islands
76.9%
in 2025
Malaysia
77.4%
in 2025
Cook Islands rank
85th
Malaysia rank
82nd

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

  • Cook Islands
  • Malaysia
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How they compare

Malaysia currently reports 77.4% against 76.9% in Cook Islands, a difference of 0.5%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 76 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Cook Islands ahead.

Cook Islands ranks 85th and Malaysia ranks 82nd of 238 countries.

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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.