Greece vs Taiwan: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Greece
79.2%
in 2025
Taiwan
78.9%
in 2025
Greece rank
76th
Taiwan rank
78th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Greece
- Taiwan
How they compare
Greece currently reports 79.2% against 78.9% in Taiwan, a difference of 0.3%.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Greece ahead.
Greece ranks 76th and Taiwan ranks 78th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Greece averaged higher in 26 and Taiwan in 14.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Greece | Taiwan | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 5.1% | 0.0% | 5.1% | Greece |
| 1100s | 5.5% | 0.0% | 5.5% | Greece |
| 1200s | 5.9% | 0.0% | 5.9% | Greece |
| 1300s | 6.4% | 0.0% | 6.3% | Greece |
| 1400s | 6.8% | 0.1% | 6.7% | Greece |
| 1500s | 7.2% | 0.2% | 6.9% | Greece |
| 1600s | 7.6% | 0.7% | 6.9% | Greece |
| 1700s | 8.0% | 2.1% | 5.9% | Greece |
| 1710s | 8.0% | 2.4% | 5.6% | Greece |
| 1720s | 8.0% | 2.6% | 5.4% | Greece |
| 1730s | 8.0% | 2.9% | 5.1% | Greece |
| 1740s | 8.0% | 3.2% | 4.8% | Greece |
| 1750s | 8.0% | 3.5% | 4.5% | Greece |
| 1760s | 8.0% | 3.8% | 4.2% | Greece |
| 1770s | 8.0% | 4.2% | 3.8% | Greece |
| 1780s | 8.0% | 4.5% | 3.5% | Greece |
| 1790s | 8.0% | 5.0% | 3.0% | Greece |
| 1800s | 8.0% | 5.5% | 2.5% | Greece |
| 1810s | 8.0% | 6.0% | 2.0% | Greece |
| 1820s | 8.0% | 6.5% | 1.5% | Greece |
| 1830s | 8.0% | 7.2% | 0.8% | Greece |
| 1840s | 8.0% | 7.9% | 0.1% | Greece |
| 1850s | 8.0% | 8.6% | 0.6% | Taiwan |
| 1860s | 8.0% | 9.4% | 1.4% | Taiwan |
| 1870s | 8.0% | 10.3% | 2.3% | Taiwan |
| 1880s | 8.0% | 11.3% | 3.3% | Taiwan |
| 1890s | 8.0% | 12.4% | 4.4% | Taiwan |
| 1900s | 8.0% | 13.5% | 5.5% | Taiwan |
| 1910s | 8.1% | 14.8% | 6.8% | Taiwan |
| 1920s | 12.5% | 16.3% | 3.8% | Taiwan |
| 1930s | 15.0% | 17.8% | 2.8% | Taiwan |
| 1940s | 20.0% | 19.5% | 0.5% | Greece |
| 1950s | 53.8% | 46.6% | 7.2% | Greece |
| 1960s | 59.4% | 51.9% | 7.5% | Greece |
| 1970s | 66.9% | 59.8% | 7.1% | Greece |
| 1980s | 70.5% | 73.2% | 2.7% | Taiwan |
| 1990s | 72.0% | 76.9% | 4.9% | Taiwan |
| 2000s | 74.2% | 78.8% | 4.6% | Taiwan |
| 2010s | 77.4% | 79.9% | 2.5% | Taiwan |
| 2020s | 78.7% | 79.0% | 0.3% | Taiwan |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Greece or Taiwan?
- Greece, at 79.2% against 78.9% in Taiwan as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Greece and Taiwan?
- 0.3%, with Greece ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Greece and Taiwan?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Greece and Taiwan rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Greece ranks 76th and Taiwan ranks 78th 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.