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

India

35.7%

in 2025

Tanzania

36.9%

in 2025

India rank

199th

Tanzania rank

197th

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

Tanzania currently reports 36.9% against 35.7% in India, a difference of 1.2%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was India ahead.

India ranks 199th and Tanzania ranks 197th 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.