Eritrea vs Jersey: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Eritrea

34.5%

in 2025

Jersey

34.5%

in 2025

Eritrea rank

202nd

Jersey rank

203rd

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

Eritrea currently reports 34.5% against 34.5% in Jersey, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Jersey ahead.

Eritrea ranks 202nd and Jersey ranks 203rd 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.