Eswatini vs East Timor: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Eswatini

26.7%

in 2025

East Timor

28.8%

in 2025

Eswatini rank

219th

East Timor rank

217th

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

East Timor currently reports 28.8% against 26.7% in Eswatini, a difference of 2.1%.

That makes East Timor's figure about 1.1 times Eswatini's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was East Timor ahead.

Eswatini ranks 219th and East Timor ranks 217th 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.