Denmark vs Sweden: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Denmark

88.8%

in 2025

Sweden

89.1%

in 2025

Denmark rank

45th

Sweden rank

43rd

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

Sweden currently reports 89.1% against 88.8% in Denmark, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Denmark ahead.

Denmark ranks 45th and Sweden ranks 43rd 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.