Cote d'Ivoire vs Haiti: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Cote d'Ivoire
54.5%
in 2025
Haiti
55.6%
in 2025
Cote d'Ivoire rank
161st
Haiti rank
159th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Haiti
How they compare
Haiti currently reports 55.6% against 54.5% in Cote d'Ivoire, a difference of 1.1%.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Haiti ahead.
Cote d'Ivoire ranks 161st and Haiti ranks 159th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Cote d'Ivoire averaged higher in 6 and Haiti in 34.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Cote d'Ivoire | Haiti | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Haiti |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Haiti |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Haiti |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Haiti |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Haiti |
| 1500s | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | Haiti |
| 1600s | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | Haiti |
| 1700s | 0.1% | 1.2% | 1.1% | Haiti |
| 1710s | 0.1% | 1.4% | 1.3% | Haiti |
| 1720s | 0.1% | 1.5% | 1.4% | Haiti |
| 1730s | 0.2% | 1.6% | 1.5% | Haiti |
| 1740s | 0.2% | 1.8% | 1.6% | Haiti |
| 1750s | 0.2% | 2.0% | 1.7% | Haiti |
| 1760s | 0.3% | 2.2% | 1.9% | Haiti |
| 1770s | 0.4% | 2.4% | 2.0% | Haiti |
| 1780s | 0.4% | 2.6% | 2.2% | Haiti |
| 1790s | 0.5% | 2.8% | 2.3% | Haiti |
| 1800s | 0.6% | 3.1% | 2.5% | Haiti |
| 1810s | 0.7% | 3.4% | 2.7% | Haiti |
| 1820s | 0.9% | 3.7% | 2.8% | Haiti |
| 1830s | 1.1% | 4.1% | 3.0% | Haiti |
| 1840s | 1.3% | 4.5% | 3.2% | Haiti |
| 1850s | 1.5% | 4.9% | 3.4% | Haiti |
| 1860s | 1.8% | 5.4% | 3.5% | Haiti |
| 1870s | 2.2% | 5.9% | 3.7% | Haiti |
| 1880s | 2.6% | 6.4% | 3.8% | Haiti |
| 1890s | 3.2% | 7.1% | 3.9% | Haiti |
| 1900s | 3.8% | 7.7% | 3.9% | Haiti |
| 1910s | 4.6% | 8.5% | 3.9% | Haiti |
| 1920s | 5.5% | 9.3% | 3.8% | Haiti |
| 1930s | 6.6% | 10.1% | 3.6% | Haiti |
| 1940s | 7.9% | 11.1% | 3.2% | Haiti |
| 1950s | 13.0% | 13.5% | 0.6% | Haiti |
| 1960s | 23.5% | 17.0% | 6.6% | Cote d'Ivoire |
| 1970s | 32.2% | 20.3% | 11.9% | Cote d'Ivoire |
| 1980s | 38.3% | 21.5% | 16.8% | Cote d'Ivoire |
| 1990s | 41.2% | 29.5% | 11.7% | Cote d'Ivoire |
| 2000s | 44.9% | 41.8% | 3.1% | Cote d'Ivoire |
| 2010s | 49.3% | 49.1% | 0.2% | Cote d'Ivoire |
| 2020s | 53.2% | 54.1% | 1.0% | Haiti |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Cote d'Ivoire or Haiti?
- Haiti, at 55.6% against 54.5% in Cote d'Ivoire as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Cote d'Ivoire and Haiti?
- 1.1%, with Haiti ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Cote d'Ivoire and Haiti?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Cote d'Ivoire and Haiti rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Cote d'Ivoire ranks 161st and Haiti ranks 159th 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 modelled historical data.