Germany vs United Kingdom: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Germany

82.1%

in 2025

United Kingdom

83.3%

in 2025

Germany rank

62nd

United Kingdom rank

60th

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

United Kingdom currently reports 83.3% against 82.1% in Germany, a difference of 1.2%.

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

Germany ranks 62nd and United Kingdom ranks 60th 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.