Georgia vs Mauritania: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Georgia
61.2%
in 2025
Mauritania
61.5%
in 2025
Georgia rank
140th
Mauritania rank
139th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Georgia
- Mauritania
How they compare
Mauritania currently reports 61.5% against 61.2% in Georgia, a difference of 0.3%.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Georgia ahead.
Georgia ranks 140th and Mauritania ranks 139th of 238 countries.
Georgia has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Georgia | Mauritania | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Georgia |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Georgia |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Georgia |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Georgia |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Georgia |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | Georgia |
| 1600s | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | Georgia |
| 1700s | 1.0% | 0.3% | 0.7% | Georgia |
| 1710s | 1.0% | 0.3% | 0.7% | Georgia |
| 1720s | 1.0% | 0.4% | 0.6% | Georgia |
| 1730s | 1.0% | 0.4% | 0.6% | Georgia |
| 1740s | 1.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | Georgia |
| 1750s | 1.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | Georgia |
| 1760s | 1.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | Georgia |
| 1770s | 1.0% | 0.6% | 0.4% | Georgia |
| 1780s | 1.0% | 0.7% | 0.3% | Georgia |
| 1790s | 1.1% | 0.7% | 0.3% | Georgia |
| 1800s | 1.3% | 0.8% | 0.5% | Georgia |
| 1810s | 1.6% | 0.9% | 0.8% | Georgia |
| 1820s | 2.1% | 0.9% | 1.1% | Georgia |
| 1830s | 2.6% | 1.0% | 1.5% | Georgia |
| 1840s | 3.2% | 1.1% | 2.1% | Georgia |
| 1850s | 4.0% | 1.2% | 2.8% | Georgia |
| 1860s | 5.0% | 1.3% | 3.7% | Georgia |
| 1870s | 6.3% | 1.5% | 4.8% | Georgia |
| 1880s | 7.8% | 1.6% | 6.2% | Georgia |
| 1890s | 9.8% | 1.8% | 8.0% | Georgia |
| 1900s | 12.2% | 1.9% | 10.3% | Georgia |
| 1910s | 15.3% | 2.1% | 13.2% | Georgia |
| 1920s | 19.1% | 2.3% | 16.8% | Georgia |
| 1930s | 23.9% | 2.5% | 21.3% | Georgia |
| 1940s | 29.9% | 2.8% | 27.1% | Georgia |
| 1950s | 39.4% | 4.2% | 35.2% | Georgia |
| 1960s | 45.4% | 10.1% | 35.3% | Georgia |
| 1970s | 49.9% | 20.5% | 29.4% | Georgia |
| 1980s | 53.9% | 35.8% | 18.1% | Georgia |
| 1990s | 53.9% | 38.8% | 15.1% | Georgia |
| 2000s | 53.2% | 40.6% | 12.6% | Georgia |
| 2010s | 57.1% | 51.1% | 6.0% | Georgia |
| 2020s | 60.2% | 59.3% | 1.0% | Georgia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Georgia or Mauritania?
- Mauritania, at 61.5% against 61.2% in Georgia as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Georgia and Mauritania?
- 0.3%, with Mauritania ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Georgia and Mauritania?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Georgia and Mauritania rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Georgia ranks 140th and Mauritania ranks 139th 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.