Gibraltar vs Macao: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Gibraltar
100.0%
in 2025
Macao
100.0%
in 2025
Gibraltar rank
1st
Macao rank
1st
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Gibraltar
- Macao
How they compare
Gibraltar currently reports 100.0% against 100.0% in Macao, a difference of 0.0%.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 76 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Gibraltar ahead.
Gibraltar ranks 1st and Macao ranks 1st of 238 countries.
Gibraltar has averaged higher in every one of the 8 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Gibraltar | Macao | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 100.0% | 95.9% | 4.1% | Gibraltar |
| 1960s | 100.0% | 95.9% | 4.1% | Gibraltar |
| 1970s | 100.0% | 97.7% | 2.3% | Gibraltar |
| 1980s | 100.0% | 99.0% | 1.0% | Gibraltar |
| 1990s | 100.0% | 99.9% | 0.1% | Gibraltar |
| 2000s | 100.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | Gibraltar |
| 2010s | 100.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 2020s | 100.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | — |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Gibraltar or Macao?
- Gibraltar, at 100.0% against 100.0% in Macao as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Gibraltar and Macao?
- 0.0%, with Gibraltar ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Gibraltar and Macao?
- 76 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2025.
- How do Gibraltar and Macao rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Gibraltar ranks 1st and Macao ranks 1st 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.