Ghana vs Indonesia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Ghana

58.9%

in 2025

Indonesia

59.4%

in 2025

Ghana rank

148th

Indonesia rank

146th

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

Indonesia currently reports 59.4% against 58.9% in Ghana, a difference of 0.5%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Ghana ahead.

Ghana ranks 148th and Indonesia ranks 146th 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.