Guadeloupe vs Reunion: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Guadeloupe

96.4%

in 2025

Reunion

97.3%

in 2025

Guadeloupe rank

20th

Reunion rank

17th

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

Reunion currently reports 97.3% against 96.4% in Guadeloupe, a difference of 0.8%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 103 shared years of data; in 1500 it was Guadeloupe ahead.

Guadeloupe ranks 20th and Reunion ranks 17th of 238 regions.

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.