Gabon vs Lebanon: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Gabon
92.1%
in 2025
Lebanon
91.0%
in 2025
Gabon rank
35th
Lebanon rank
38th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Gabon
- Lebanon
How they compare
Gabon currently reports 92.1% against 91.0% in Lebanon, a difference of 1.1%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Lebanon ahead.
Gabon ranks 35th and Lebanon ranks 38th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Gabon averaged higher in 9 and Lebanon in 31.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Gabon | Lebanon | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.9% | 0.9% | Lebanon |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.9% | 0.9% | Lebanon |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.9% | 0.9% | Lebanon |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.8% | 0.8% | Lebanon |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.8% | 0.8% | Lebanon |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.8% | 0.7% | Lebanon |
| 1600s | 0.4% | 0.8% | 0.4% | Lebanon |
| 1700s | 1.1% | 0.8% | 0.3% | Gabon |
| 1710s | 1.3% | 0.9% | 0.4% | Gabon |
| 1720s | 1.4% | 1.0% | 0.4% | Gabon |
| 1730s | 1.5% | 1.2% | 0.4% | Gabon |
| 1740s | 1.7% | 1.4% | 0.3% | Gabon |
| 1750s | 1.8% | 1.6% | 0.2% | Gabon |
| 1760s | 2.0% | 1.8% | 0.2% | Gabon |
| 1770s | 2.2% | 2.2% | 0.0% | Gabon |
| 1780s | 2.4% | 2.5% | 0.1% | Lebanon |
| 1790s | 2.6% | 2.9% | 0.3% | Lebanon |
| 1800s | 2.9% | 3.4% | 0.5% | Lebanon |
| 1810s | 3.2% | 4.0% | 0.8% | Lebanon |
| 1820s | 3.5% | 4.7% | 1.2% | Lebanon |
| 1830s | 3.8% | 5.4% | 1.6% | Lebanon |
| 1840s | 4.2% | 6.3% | 2.2% | Lebanon |
| 1850s | 4.5% | 7.4% | 2.9% | Lebanon |
| 1860s | 5.0% | 8.6% | 3.7% | Lebanon |
| 1870s | 5.5% | 10.1% | 4.6% | Lebanon |
| 1880s | 6.0% | 11.8% | 5.8% | Lebanon |
| 1890s | 6.5% | 13.7% | 7.2% | Lebanon |
| 1900s | 7.2% | 16.0% | 8.8% | Lebanon |
| 1910s | 7.9% | 18.7% | 10.8% | Lebanon |
| 1920s | 8.6% | 21.8% | 13.2% | Lebanon |
| 1930s | 9.4% | 25.4% | 16.0% | Lebanon |
| 1940s | 10.3% | 29.7% | 19.3% | Lebanon |
| 1950s | 11.8% | 35.7% | 23.9% | Lebanon |
| 1960s | 19.8% | 49.7% | 29.9% | Lebanon |
| 1970s | 42.6% | 66.3% | 23.7% | Lebanon |
| 1980s | 61.7% | 79.3% | 17.6% | Lebanon |
| 1990s | 74.3% | 84.8% | 10.5% | Lebanon |
| 2000s | 82.9% | 86.7% | 3.8% | Lebanon |
| 2010s | 87.9% | 88.5% | 0.6% | Lebanon |
| 2020s | 91.3% | 90.3% | 1.0% | Gabon |
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 Lebanon?
- Gabon, at 92.1% against 91.0% in Lebanon as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Gabon and Lebanon?
- 1.1%, with Gabon ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Gabon and Lebanon?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Gabon and Lebanon rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Gabon ranks 35th and Lebanon ranks 38th 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.