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

Cuba

77.2%

in 2025

Malaysia

77.4%

in 2025

Cuba rank

84th

Malaysia rank

82nd

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

Malaysia currently reports 77.4% against 77.2% in Cuba, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Cuba ahead.

Cuba ranks 84th and Malaysia ranks 82nd 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.