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

Guyana

26.5%

in 2025

East Timor

28.8%

in 2025

Guyana rank

220th

East Timor rank

217th

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

East Timor currently reports 28.8% against 26.5% in Guyana, a difference of 2.3%.

That makes East Timor's figure about 1.1 times Guyana's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was East Timor ahead.

Guyana ranks 220th 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.