Iceland vs Turks and Caicos Islands: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Iceland
94.2%
in 2025
Turks and Caicos Islands
94.4%
in 2025
Iceland rank
30th
Turks and Caicos Islands rank
27th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Iceland
- Turks and Caicos Islands
How they compare
Turks and Caicos Islands currently reports 94.4% against 94.2% in Iceland, a difference of 0.2%.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Turks and Caicos Islands ahead.
Iceland ranks 30th and Turks and Caicos Islands ranks 27th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Iceland averaged higher in 32 and Turks and Caicos Islands in 8.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Iceland | Turks and Caicos Islands | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| 1400s | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.0% | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| 1500s | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.1% | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| 1600s | 1.2% | 1.6% | 0.4% | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| 1700s | 3.6% | 4.7% | 1.1% | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| 1710s | 6.0% | 5.3% | 0.7% | Iceland |
| 1720s | 8.5% | 5.8% | 2.7% | Iceland |
| 1730s | 11.0% | 6.4% | 4.6% | Iceland |
| 1740s | 13.5% | 7.0% | 6.5% | Iceland |
| 1750s | 15.9% | 7.6% | 8.3% | Iceland |
| 1760s | 18.4% | 8.4% | 10.0% | Iceland |
| 1770s | 20.9% | 9.2% | 11.7% | Iceland |
| 1780s | 23.3% | 10.0% | 13.3% | Iceland |
| 1790s | 25.8% | 11.0% | 14.8% | Iceland |
| 1800s | 28.3% | 12.0% | 16.2% | Iceland |
| 1810s | 30.7% | 13.2% | 17.5% | Iceland |
| 1820s | 33.2% | 14.5% | 18.7% | Iceland |
| 1830s | 35.7% | 15.8% | 19.8% | Iceland |
| 1840s | 38.1% | 17.3% | 20.8% | Iceland |
| 1850s | 40.6% | 19.0% | 21.6% | Iceland |
| 1860s | 43.1% | 20.8% | 22.3% | Iceland |
| 1870s | 45.5% | 22.8% | 22.8% | Iceland |
| 1880s | 48.0% | 24.9% | 23.1% | Iceland |
| 1890s | 50.5% | 27.3% | 23.2% | Iceland |
| 1900s | 52.9% | 29.9% | 23.0% | Iceland |
| 1910s | 55.4% | 32.8% | 22.6% | Iceland |
| 1920s | 57.9% | 35.9% | 22.0% | Iceland |
| 1930s | 59.1% | 39.3% | 19.8% | Iceland |
| 1940s | 60.6% | 43.1% | 17.5% | Iceland |
| 1950s | 76.4% | 47.3% | 29.1% | Iceland |
| 1960s | 82.7% | 48.9% | 33.8% | Iceland |
| 1970s | 86.6% | 52.6% | 34.0% | Iceland |
| 1980s | 89.2% | 63.3% | 25.9% | Iceland |
| 1990s | 91.4% | 79.4% | 12.0% | Iceland |
| 2000s | 92.4% | 87.5% | 5.0% | Iceland |
| 2010s | 93.7% | 91.7% | 2.0% | Iceland |
| 2020s | 94.2% | 93.8% | 0.4% | Iceland |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Iceland or Turks and Caicos Islands?
- Turks and Caicos Islands, at 94.4% against 94.2% in Iceland as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Iceland and Turks and Caicos Islands?
- 0.2%, with Turks and Caicos Islands ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Iceland and Turks and Caicos Islands?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Iceland and Turks and Caicos Islands rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Iceland ranks 30th and Turks and Caicos Islands ranks 27th 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.