India vs Sudan: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

India

35.7%

in 2025

Sudan

34.9%

in 2025

India rank

199th

Sudan rank

200th

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

India currently reports 35.7% against 34.9% in Sudan, a difference of 0.8%.

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

India ranks 199th and Sudan ranks 200th 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.