Cyprus vs New Caledonia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Cyprus

66.7%

in 2025

New Caledonia

68.2%

in 2025

Cyprus rank

116th

New Caledonia rank

113th

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

New Caledonia currently reports 68.2% against 66.7% in Cyprus, a difference of 1.5%.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Cyprus ahead.

Cyprus ranks 116th and New Caledonia ranks 113th 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.