Greece vs Oman: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Greece
79.2%
in 2025
Oman
79.5%
in 2025
Greece rank
76th
Oman rank
73rd

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

  • Greece
  • Oman
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How they compare

Oman currently reports 79.5% against 79.2% in Greece, a difference of 0.3%.

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

Greece ranks 76th and Oman ranks 73rd of 238 countries.

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About this data

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
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Share of the population living in urban areas, combining UN estimates with modelled historical data.