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Ethiopia vs Vanuatu: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Ethiopia
24.1%
in 2025
Vanuatu
22.3%
in 2025
Ethiopia rank
225th
Vanuatu rank
227th

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

  • Ethiopia
  • Vanuatu
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How they compare

Ethiopia currently reports 24.1% against 22.3% in Vanuatu, a difference of 1.8%.

That makes Ethiopia's figure about 1.1 times Vanuatu's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Ethiopia ahead.

Ethiopia ranks 225th and Vanuatu ranks 227th of 238 countries.

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About this data

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

Share of the population living in urban areas, combining UN estimates with modelled historical data.