Guernsey vs East Timor: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Guernsey

29.6%

in 2025

East Timor

28.8%

in 2025

Guernsey rank

214th

East Timor rank

217th

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

Guernsey currently reports 29.6% against 28.8% in East Timor, a difference of 0.8%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Guernsey ahead.

Guernsey ranks 214th and East Timor ranks 217th 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.