Eritrea vs Sudan: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Eritrea
34.5%
in 2025
Sudan
34.9%
in 2025
Eritrea rank
202nd
Sudan rank
200th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Eritrea
- Sudan
How they compare
Sudan currently reports 34.9% against 34.5% in Eritrea, a difference of 0.4%.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Sudan ahead.
Eritrea ranks 202nd and Sudan ranks 200th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Eritrea averaged higher in 4 and Sudan in 36.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Eritrea | Sudan | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Sudan |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Sudan |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Sudan |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Sudan |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Sudan |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Sudan |
| 1600s | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.0% | Sudan |
| 1700s | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.0% | Sudan |
| 1710s | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.1% | Sudan |
| 1720s | 0.9% | 0.9% | 0.1% | Sudan |
| 1730s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.1% | Sudan |
| 1740s | 1.1% | 1.1% | 0.1% | Sudan |
| 1750s | 1.2% | 1.2% | 0.1% | Sudan |
| 1760s | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0.1% | Sudan |
| 1770s | 1.4% | 1.5% | 0.1% | Sudan |
| 1780s | 1.5% | 1.6% | 0.1% | Sudan |
| 1790s | 1.7% | 1.8% | 0.1% | Sudan |
| 1800s | 1.8% | 1.9% | 0.1% | Sudan |
| 1810s | 2.0% | 2.1% | 0.1% | Sudan |
| 1820s | 2.2% | 2.3% | 0.1% | Sudan |
| 1830s | 2.4% | 2.5% | 0.1% | Sudan |
| 1840s | 2.6% | 2.8% | 0.2% | Sudan |
| 1850s | 2.9% | 3.0% | 0.2% | Sudan |
| 1860s | 3.1% | 3.3% | 0.2% | Sudan |
| 1870s | 3.4% | 3.6% | 0.2% | Sudan |
| 1880s | 3.8% | 4.0% | 0.2% | Sudan |
| 1890s | 4.1% | 4.4% | 0.3% | Sudan |
| 1900s | 4.5% | 4.8% | 0.3% | Sudan |
| 1910s | 4.9% | 5.2% | 0.3% | Sudan |
| 1920s | 5.4% | 5.7% | 0.3% | Sudan |
| 1930s | 5.9% | 6.3% | 0.4% | Sudan |
| 1940s | 6.5% | 6.9% | 0.4% | Sudan |
| 1950s | 8.6% | 8.6% | 0.1% | Eritrea |
| 1960s | 11.6% | 14.5% | 2.9% | Sudan |
| 1970s | 13.5% | 18.8% | 5.3% | Sudan |
| 1980s | 15.6% | 23.0% | 7.4% | Sudan |
| 1990s | 26.2% | 31.8% | 5.6% | Sudan |
| 2000s | 34.9% | 32.4% | 2.5% | Eritrea |
| 2010s | 35.5% | 33.7% | 1.8% | Eritrea |
| 2020s | 34.8% | 34.8% | 0.0% | Eritrea |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Eritrea or Sudan?
- Sudan, at 34.9% against 34.5% in Eritrea as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Eritrea and Sudan?
- 0.4%, with Sudan ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Eritrea and Sudan?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Eritrea and Sudan rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Eritrea ranks 202nd and Sudan ranks 200th 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.