Guam vs Iceland: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Guam

94.2%

in 2025

Iceland

94.2%

in 2025

Guam rank

29th

Iceland rank

30th

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

Guam currently reports 94.2% against 94.2% in Iceland, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Iceland ahead.

Guam ranks 29th and Iceland ranks 30th 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.