Ghana vs Honduras: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Ghana
58.9%
in 2025
Honduras
59.3%
in 2025
Ghana rank
148th
Honduras rank
147th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Ghana
- Honduras
How they compare
Honduras currently reports 59.3% against 58.9% in Ghana, a difference of 0.4%.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Honduras ahead.
Ghana ranks 148th and Honduras ranks 147th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Ghana averaged higher in 1 and Honduras in 39.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Ghana | Honduras | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Honduras |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Honduras |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Honduras |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Honduras |
| 1400s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Honduras |
| 1500s | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | Honduras |
| 1600s | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.0% | Honduras |
| 1700s | 1.5% | 1.7% | 0.1% | Honduras |
| 1710s | 1.7% | 1.9% | 0.2% | Honduras |
| 1720s | 1.9% | 2.1% | 0.2% | Honduras |
| 1730s | 2.1% | 2.3% | 0.2% | Honduras |
| 1740s | 2.3% | 2.5% | 0.2% | Honduras |
| 1750s | 2.5% | 2.7% | 0.2% | Honduras |
| 1760s | 2.7% | 3.0% | 0.3% | Honduras |
| 1770s | 3.0% | 3.3% | 0.3% | Honduras |
| 1780s | 3.3% | 3.6% | 0.3% | Honduras |
| 1790s | 3.6% | 3.9% | 0.3% | Honduras |
| 1800s | 3.9% | 4.3% | 0.4% | Honduras |
| 1810s | 4.3% | 4.7% | 0.4% | Honduras |
| 1820s | 4.7% | 5.2% | 0.4% | Honduras |
| 1830s | 5.2% | 5.7% | 0.5% | Honduras |
| 1840s | 5.7% | 6.2% | 0.5% | Honduras |
| 1850s | 6.2% | 6.8% | 0.6% | Honduras |
| 1860s | 6.8% | 7.5% | 0.6% | Honduras |
| 1870s | 7.5% | 8.2% | 0.7% | Honduras |
| 1880s | 8.2% | 8.9% | 0.8% | Honduras |
| 1890s | 8.9% | 9.8% | 0.8% | Honduras |
| 1900s | 9.8% | 10.7% | 0.9% | Honduras |
| 1910s | 10.7% | 11.7% | 1.0% | Honduras |
| 1920s | 11.8% | 12.9% | 1.1% | Honduras |
| 1930s | 12.9% | 14.1% | 1.2% | Honduras |
| 1940s | 14.1% | 15.4% | 1.3% | Honduras |
| 1950s | 18.9% | 27.8% | 8.9% | Honduras |
| 1960s | 26.1% | 24.9% | 1.3% | Ghana |
| 1970s | 30.0% | 31.7% | 1.7% | Honduras |
| 1980s | 32.6% | 37.6% | 5.0% | Honduras |
| 1990s | 39.5% | 42.6% | 3.1% | Honduras |
| 2000s | 47.1% | 47.9% | 0.8% | Honduras |
| 2010s | 53.3% | 54.0% | 0.7% | Honduras |
| 2020s | 57.5% | 58.1% | 0.5% | Honduras |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Ghana or Honduras?
- Honduras, at 59.3% against 58.9% in Ghana as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Ghana and Honduras?
- 0.4%, with Honduras ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Ghana and Honduras?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Ghana and Honduras rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Ghana ranks 148th and Honduras ranks 147th 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.