Croatia vs Liberia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Croatia
57.8%
in 2025
Liberia
56.1%
in 2025
Croatia rank
151st
Liberia rank
154th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Croatia
- Liberia
How they compare
Croatia currently reports 57.8% against 56.1% in Liberia, a difference of 1.7%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Liberia ahead.
Croatia ranks 151st and Liberia ranks 154th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Croatia averaged higher in 13 and Liberia in 27.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Croatia | Liberia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Liberia |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Liberia |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Liberia |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Liberia |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Liberia |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Liberia |
| 1600s | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.0% | Liberia |
| 1700s | 1.0% | 1.1% | 0.1% | Liberia |
| 1710s | 1.0% | 1.3% | 0.3% | Liberia |
| 1720s | 1.0% | 1.4% | 0.4% | Liberia |
| 1730s | 1.0% | 1.6% | 0.6% | Liberia |
| 1740s | 1.0% | 1.7% | 0.7% | Liberia |
| 1750s | 1.0% | 1.9% | 0.9% | Liberia |
| 1760s | 1.0% | 2.0% | 1.0% | Liberia |
| 1770s | 1.0% | 2.2% | 1.2% | Liberia |
| 1780s | 1.0% | 2.4% | 1.4% | Liberia |
| 1790s | 1.0% | 2.7% | 1.7% | Liberia |
| 1800s | 1.0% | 2.9% | 1.9% | Liberia |
| 1810s | 1.0% | 3.2% | 2.2% | Liberia |
| 1820s | 1.2% | 3.5% | 2.3% | Liberia |
| 1830s | 1.5% | 3.9% | 2.3% | Liberia |
| 1840s | 1.9% | 4.2% | 2.3% | Liberia |
| 1850s | 2.4% | 4.6% | 2.2% | Liberia |
| 1860s | 3.0% | 5.1% | 2.1% | Liberia |
| 1870s | 3.7% | 5.5% | 1.8% | Liberia |
| 1880s | 4.7% | 6.1% | 1.4% | Liberia |
| 1890s | 5.8% | 6.7% | 0.8% | Liberia |
| 1900s | 7.3% | 7.3% | 0.0% | Croatia |
| 1910s | 9.1% | 8.0% | 1.1% | Croatia |
| 1920s | 11.4% | 8.7% | 2.7% | Croatia |
| 1930s | 14.3% | 9.6% | 4.7% | Croatia |
| 1940s | 17.8% | 10.5% | 7.3% | Croatia |
| 1950s | 25.7% | 15.3% | 10.4% | Croatia |
| 1960s | 34.7% | 21.8% | 12.9% | Croatia |
| 1970s | 43.7% | 30.2% | 13.5% | Croatia |
| 1980s | 50.6% | 38.8% | 11.8% | Croatia |
| 1990s | 55.0% | 47.6% | 7.4% | Croatia |
| 2000s | 55.5% | 45.6% | 9.9% | Croatia |
| 2010s | 55.6% | 50.5% | 5.1% | Croatia |
| 2020s | 57.1% | 54.7% | 2.4% | Croatia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Croatia or Liberia?
- Croatia, at 57.8% against 56.1% in Liberia as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Croatia and Liberia?
- 1.7%, with Croatia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Croatia and Liberia?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Croatia and Liberia rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Croatia ranks 151st and Liberia ranks 154th of 238 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) β 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.