Curacao vs Gabon: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Curacao

91.5%

in 2025

Gabon

92.1%

in 2025

Curacao rank

37th

Gabon rank

35th

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

Gabon currently reports 92.1% against 91.5% in Curacao, a difference of 0.6%.

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

Curacao ranks 37th and Gabon ranks 35th 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.