Gabon vs Israel: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Gabon
92.1%
in 2025
Israel
91.6%
in 2025
Gabon rank
35th
Israel rank
36th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Gabon
- Israel
How they compare
Gabon currently reports 92.1% against 91.6% in Israel, a difference of 0.5%.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Israel ahead.
Gabon ranks 35th and Israel ranks 36th of 238 countries.
Israel has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Gabon | Israel | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 1.4% | 1.4% | Israel |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 1.7% | 1.7% | Israel |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 2.1% | 2.1% | Israel |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 2.5% | 2.5% | Israel |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 2.8% | 2.7% | Israel |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 3.6% | 3.4% | Israel |
| 1600s | 0.4% | 4.3% | 3.9% | Israel |
| 1700s | 1.1% | 4.9% | 3.8% | Israel |
| 1710s | 1.3% | 5.5% | 4.2% | Israel |
| 1720s | 1.4% | 5.9% | 4.5% | Israel |
| 1730s | 1.5% | 6.4% | 4.9% | Israel |
| 1740s | 1.7% | 7.0% | 5.3% | Israel |
| 1750s | 1.8% | 7.5% | 5.7% | Israel |
| 1760s | 2.0% | 8.1% | 6.1% | Israel |
| 1770s | 2.2% | 8.7% | 6.5% | Israel |
| 1780s | 2.4% | 9.4% | 7.0% | Israel |
| 1790s | 2.6% | 10.0% | 7.4% | Israel |
| 1800s | 2.9% | 10.7% | 7.9% | Israel |
| 1810s | 3.2% | 11.6% | 8.5% | Israel |
| 1820s | 3.5% | 12.6% | 9.2% | Israel |
| 1830s | 3.8% | 13.7% | 9.9% | Israel |
| 1840s | 4.2% | 14.9% | 10.8% | Israel |
| 1850s | 4.5% | 16.2% | 11.7% | Israel |
| 1860s | 5.0% | 17.6% | 12.6% | Israel |
| 1870s | 5.5% | 19.4% | 13.9% | Israel |
| 1880s | 6.0% | 21.3% | 15.3% | Israel |
| 1890s | 6.5% | 23.4% | 16.9% | Israel |
| 1900s | 7.2% | 25.8% | 18.6% | Israel |
| 1910s | 7.9% | 28.3% | 20.5% | Israel |
| 1920s | 8.6% | 31.0% | 22.4% | Israel |
| 1930s | 9.4% | 34.0% | 24.6% | Israel |
| 1940s | 10.3% | 37.2% | 26.9% | Israel |
| 1950s | 11.8% | 72.1% | 60.4% | Israel |
| 1960s | 19.8% | 80.6% | 60.8% | Israel |
| 1970s | 42.6% | 86.5% | 43.9% | Israel |
| 1980s | 61.7% | 89.7% | 28.0% | Israel |
| 1990s | 74.3% | 90.8% | 16.5% | Israel |
| 2000s | 82.9% | 91.6% | 8.7% | Israel |
| 2010s | 87.9% | 91.7% | 3.8% | Israel |
| 2020s | 91.3% | 91.5% | 0.2% | Israel |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Gabon or Israel?
- Gabon, at 92.1% against 91.6% in Israel as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Gabon and Israel?
- 0.5%, with Gabon ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Gabon and Israel?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Gabon and Israel rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Gabon ranks 35th and Israel ranks 36th 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.