Haiti vs Somalia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Haiti
55.6%
in 2025
Somalia
55.1%
in 2025
Haiti rank
159th
Somalia rank
160th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Haiti
- Somalia
How they compare
Haiti currently reports 55.6% against 55.1% in Somalia, a difference of 0.5%.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Haiti ahead.
Haiti ranks 159th and Somalia ranks 160th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Haiti averaged higher in 35 and Somalia in 5.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Haiti | Somalia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Haiti |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Haiti |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Haiti |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Haiti |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Haiti |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | Haiti |
| 1600s | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.3% | Haiti |
| 1700s | 1.2% | 0.2% | 1.0% | Haiti |
| 1710s | 1.4% | 0.2% | 1.2% | Haiti |
| 1720s | 1.5% | 0.2% | 1.3% | Haiti |
| 1730s | 1.6% | 0.2% | 1.4% | Haiti |
| 1740s | 1.8% | 0.3% | 1.5% | Haiti |
| 1750s | 2.0% | 0.3% | 1.6% | Haiti |
| 1760s | 2.2% | 0.4% | 1.8% | Haiti |
| 1770s | 2.4% | 0.5% | 1.9% | Haiti |
| 1780s | 2.6% | 0.6% | 2.0% | Haiti |
| 1790s | 2.8% | 0.7% | 2.2% | Haiti |
| 1800s | 3.1% | 0.8% | 2.3% | Haiti |
| 1810s | 3.4% | 1.0% | 2.4% | Haiti |
| 1820s | 3.7% | 1.2% | 2.5% | Haiti |
| 1830s | 4.1% | 1.4% | 2.7% | Haiti |
| 1840s | 4.5% | 1.7% | 2.8% | Haiti |
| 1850s | 4.9% | 2.1% | 2.8% | Haiti |
| 1860s | 5.4% | 2.5% | 2.9% | Haiti |
| 1870s | 5.9% | 3.0% | 2.9% | Haiti |
| 1880s | 6.4% | 3.6% | 2.9% | Haiti |
| 1890s | 7.1% | 4.3% | 2.8% | Haiti |
| 1900s | 7.7% | 5.1% | 2.6% | Haiti |
| 1910s | 8.5% | 6.1% | 2.3% | Haiti |
| 1920s | 9.3% | 7.4% | 1.9% | Haiti |
| 1930s | 10.1% | 8.8% | 1.3% | Haiti |
| 1940s | 11.1% | 10.6% | 0.5% | Haiti |
| 1950s | 13.5% | 15.0% | 1.5% | Somalia |
| 1960s | 17.0% | 20.1% | 3.1% | Somalia |
| 1970s | 20.3% | 25.2% | 4.8% | Somalia |
| 1980s | 21.5% | 27.9% | 6.4% | Somalia |
| 1990s | 29.5% | 30.9% | 1.5% | Somalia |
| 2000s | 41.8% | 35.3% | 6.5% | Haiti |
| 2010s | 49.1% | 44.3% | 4.8% | Haiti |
| 2020s | 54.1% | 53.8% | 0.4% | Haiti |
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 Somalia?
- Haiti, at 55.6% against 55.1% in Somalia as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Haiti and Somalia?
- 0.5%, with Haiti ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Haiti and Somalia?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Haiti and Somalia rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Haiti ranks 159th and Somalia ranks 160th 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 modelled historical data.