Haiti vs Philippines: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Haiti
55.6%
in 2025
Philippines
55.8%
in 2025
Haiti rank
159th
Philippines rank
156th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Haiti
- Philippines
How they compare
Philippines currently reports 55.8% against 55.6% in Haiti, a difference of 0.2%.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Philippines ahead.
Haiti ranks 159th and Philippines ranks 156th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Haiti averaged higher in 1 and Philippines in 39.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Haiti | Philippines | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Philippines |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Philippines |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Philippines |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Philippines |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | Philippines |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | Philippines |
| 1600s | 0.4% | 1.0% | 0.6% | Philippines |
| 1700s | 1.2% | 2.9% | 1.7% | Philippines |
| 1710s | 1.4% | 3.3% | 1.9% | Philippines |
| 1720s | 1.5% | 3.6% | 2.1% | Philippines |
| 1730s | 1.6% | 3.9% | 2.3% | Philippines |
| 1740s | 1.8% | 4.3% | 2.5% | Philippines |
| 1750s | 2.0% | 4.7% | 2.8% | Philippines |
| 1760s | 2.2% | 5.2% | 3.0% | Philippines |
| 1770s | 2.4% | 5.7% | 3.3% | Philippines |
| 1780s | 2.6% | 6.2% | 3.6% | Philippines |
| 1790s | 2.8% | 6.8% | 4.0% | Philippines |
| 1800s | 3.1% | 7.5% | 4.4% | Philippines |
| 1810s | 3.4% | 8.2% | 4.8% | Philippines |
| 1820s | 3.7% | 8.9% | 5.2% | Philippines |
| 1830s | 4.1% | 9.8% | 5.7% | Philippines |
| 1840s | 4.5% | 10.7% | 6.3% | Philippines |
| 1850s | 4.9% | 11.8% | 6.9% | Philippines |
| 1860s | 5.4% | 12.9% | 7.5% | Philippines |
| 1870s | 5.9% | 14.1% | 8.2% | Philippines |
| 1880s | 6.4% | 15.4% | 9.0% | Philippines |
| 1890s | 7.1% | 16.9% | 9.9% | Philippines |
| 1900s | 7.7% | 18.5% | 10.8% | Philippines |
| 1910s | 8.5% | 20.3% | 11.8% | Philippines |
| 1920s | 9.3% | 22.2% | 13.0% | Philippines |
| 1930s | 10.1% | 24.3% | 14.2% | Philippines |
| 1940s | 11.1% | 26.7% | 15.6% | Philippines |
| 1950s | 13.5% | 27.7% | 14.2% | Philippines |
| 1960s | 17.0% | 30.9% | 13.9% | Philippines |
| 1970s | 20.3% | 32.8% | 12.4% | Philippines |
| 1980s | 21.5% | 34.8% | 13.3% | Philippines |
| 1990s | 29.5% | 37.3% | 7.8% | Philippines |
| 2000s | 41.8% | 41.3% | 0.5% | Haiti |
| 2010s | 49.1% | 50.2% | 1.1% | Philippines |
| 2020s | 54.1% | 54.9% | 0.8% | Philippines |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Haiti or Philippines?
- Philippines, at 55.8% against 55.6% in Haiti as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Haiti and Philippines?
- 0.2%, with Philippines ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Haiti and Philippines?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Haiti and Philippines rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Haiti ranks 159th and Philippines ranks 156th 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.