El Salvador vs Russia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
El Salvador
75.5%
in 2025
Russia
75.3%
in 2025
El Salvador rank
87th
Russia rank
88th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- El Salvador
- Russia
How they compare
El Salvador currently reports 75.5% against 75.3% in Russia, a difference of 0.2%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Russia ahead.
El Salvador ranks 87th and Russia ranks 88th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, El Salvador averaged higher in 23 and Russia in 9.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | El Salvador | Russia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1400s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | — |
| 1500s | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | — |
| 1600s | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.0% | — |
| 1700s | 2.0% | 2.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1710s | 2.2% | 2.0% | 0.2% | El Salvador |
| 1720s | 2.4% | 2.0% | 0.4% | El Salvador |
| 1730s | 2.7% | 2.0% | 0.7% | El Salvador |
| 1740s | 3.1% | 2.0% | 1.1% | El Salvador |
| 1750s | 3.5% | 2.0% | 1.5% | El Salvador |
| 1760s | 3.9% | 2.0% | 1.9% | El Salvador |
| 1770s | 4.4% | 2.0% | 2.4% | El Salvador |
| 1780s | 4.9% | 2.0% | 2.9% | El Salvador |
| 1790s | 5.5% | 2.0% | 3.5% | El Salvador |
| 1800s | 6.2% | 2.0% | 4.2% | El Salvador |
| 1810s | 7.0% | 1.9% | 5.1% | El Salvador |
| 1820s | 7.9% | 2.4% | 5.5% | El Salvador |
| 1830s | 8.9% | 3.0% | 5.8% | El Salvador |
| 1840s | 10.0% | 3.8% | 6.2% | El Salvador |
| 1850s | 11.2% | 4.7% | 6.5% | El Salvador |
| 1860s | 12.6% | 5.9% | 6.7% | El Salvador |
| 1870s | 14.2% | 7.4% | 6.8% | El Salvador |
| 1880s | 16.0% | 9.3% | 6.7% | El Salvador |
| 1890s | 18.0% | 11.6% | 6.4% | El Salvador |
| 1900s | 20.3% | 14.5% | 5.8% | El Salvador |
| 1910s | 22.8% | 18.1% | 4.7% | El Salvador |
| 1920s | 25.6% | 22.6% | 3.0% | El Salvador |
| 1930s | 28.8% | 28.3% | 0.6% | El Salvador |
| 1940s | 32.5% | 35.3% | 2.9% | Russia |
| 1950s | 37.4% | 48.6% | 11.3% | Russia |
| 1960s | 38.9% | 58.0% | 19.1% | Russia |
| 1970s | 40.6% | 66.2% | 25.6% | Russia |
| 1980s | 45.5% | 71.8% | 26.3% | Russia |
| 1990s | 52.2% | 73.2% | 21.1% | Russia |
| 2000s | 60.6% | 73.3% | 12.8% | Russia |
| 2010s | 69.1% | 74.2% | 5.1% | Russia |
| 2020s | 74.3% | 74.9% | 0.6% | Russia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, El Salvador or Russia?
- El Salvador, at 75.5% against 75.3% in Russia as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between El Salvador and Russia?
- 0.2%, with El Salvador ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for El Salvador and Russia?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do El Salvador and Russia rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- El Salvador ranks 87th and Russia ranks 88th of 238 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) – 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.