Faroe Islands vs Mauritius: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Faroe Islands

39.6%

in 2025

Mauritius

39.0%

in 2025

Faroe Islands rank

188th

Mauritius rank

190th

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

Faroe Islands currently reports 39.6% against 39.0% in Mauritius, a difference of 0.6%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 101 shared years of data; in 1700 it was Faroe Islands ahead.

Faroe Islands ranks 188th and Mauritius ranks 190th 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.