Hong Kong vs Singapore: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Hong Kong
100.0%
in 2025
Singapore
100.0%
in 2025
Hong Kong rank
1st
Singapore rank
1st
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Hong Kong
- Singapore
How they compare
Hong Kong currently reports 100.0% against 100.0% in Singapore, a difference of 0.0%.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Singapore ahead.
Hong Kong ranks 1st and Singapore ranks 1st of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Hong Kong averaged higher in 23 and Singapore in 6.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Hong Kong | Singapore | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | — |
| 1600s | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | — |
| 1700s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 1710s | 4.4% | 1.3% | 3.1% | Hong Kong |
| 1720s | 7.7% | 1.5% | 6.2% | Hong Kong |
| 1730s | 11.1% | 1.8% | 9.3% | Hong Kong |
| 1740s | 14.5% | 2.2% | 12.3% | Hong Kong |
| 1750s | 17.8% | 2.6% | 15.2% | Hong Kong |
| 1760s | 21.2% | 3.1% | 18.1% | Hong Kong |
| 1770s | 24.6% | 3.7% | 20.8% | Hong Kong |
| 1780s | 27.9% | 4.5% | 23.5% | Hong Kong |
| 1790s | 31.3% | 5.4% | 25.9% | Hong Kong |
| 1800s | 34.7% | 6.5% | 28.2% | Hong Kong |
| 1810s | 38.0% | 7.7% | 30.3% | Hong Kong |
| 1820s | 41.4% | 9.3% | 32.1% | Hong Kong |
| 1830s | 44.8% | 11.2% | 33.6% | Hong Kong |
| 1840s | 48.2% | 13.4% | 34.8% | Hong Kong |
| 1850s | 51.5% | 16.1% | 35.5% | Hong Kong |
| 1860s | 54.9% | 19.3% | 35.6% | Hong Kong |
| 1870s | 58.3% | 23.1% | 35.1% | Hong Kong |
| 1880s | 61.6% | 27.8% | 33.9% | Hong Kong |
| 1890s | 65.0% | 33.3% | 31.7% | Hong Kong |
| 1900s | 68.4% | 40.0% | 28.4% | Hong Kong |
| 1910s | 71.7% | 48.0% | 23.8% | Hong Kong |
| 1920s | 75.1% | 57.5% | 17.5% | Hong Kong |
| 1930s | 78.5% | 69.1% | 9.4% | Hong Kong |
| 1940s | 81.8% | 82.9% | 1.0% | Singapore |
| 1950s | 85.2% | 100.0% | 14.8% | Singapore |
| 1960s | 86.0% | 100.0% | 14.0% | Singapore |
| 1970s | 89.3% | 100.0% | 10.7% | Singapore |
| 1980s | 93.5% | 100.0% | 6.5% | Singapore |
| 1990s | 99.9% | 100.0% | 0.1% | Singapore |
| 2000s | 100.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 2010s | 100.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | — |
| 2020s | 100.0% | 100.0% | 0.0% | — |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Hong Kong or Singapore?
- Hong Kong, at 100.0% against 100.0% in Singapore as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Hong Kong and Singapore?
- 0.0%, with Hong Kong ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Hong Kong and Singapore?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Hong Kong and Singapore rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Hong Kong ranks 1st and Singapore ranks 1st 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.