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
- India
- Tanzania
How they compare
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.
Across the 40 decades both report, India averaged higher in 39 and Tanzania in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | India | Tanzania | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 10.7% | 0.0% | 10.7% | India |
| 1100s | 11.2% | 0.0% | 11.2% | India |
| 1200s | 11.7% | 0.0% | 11.7% | India |
| 1300s | 12.1% | 0.0% | 12.1% | India |
| 1400s | 12.6% | 0.0% | 12.6% | India |
| 1500s | 13.1% | 0.0% | 13.0% | India |
| 1600s | 15.0% | 0.1% | 14.9% | India |
| 1700s | 14.0% | 0.3% | 13.7% | India |
| 1710s | 13.9% | 0.4% | 13.5% | India |
| 1720s | 13.8% | 0.4% | 13.4% | India |
| 1730s | 13.7% | 0.5% | 13.2% | India |
| 1740s | 13.6% | 0.5% | 13.1% | India |
| 1750s | 13.5% | 0.6% | 12.9% | India |
| 1760s | 13.4% | 0.6% | 12.8% | India |
| 1770s | 13.3% | 0.7% | 12.6% | India |
| 1780s | 13.2% | 0.7% | 12.5% | India |
| 1790s | 13.1% | 0.8% | 12.3% | India |
| 1800s | 13.0% | 0.9% | 12.1% | India |
| 1810s | 13.0% | 1.0% | 12.0% | India |
| 1820s | 12.0% | 1.1% | 10.9% | India |
| 1830s | 12.0% | 1.2% | 10.8% | India |
| 1840s | 11.0% | 1.3% | 9.7% | India |
| 1850s | 11.0% | 1.4% | 9.6% | India |
| 1860s | 10.0% | 1.5% | 8.5% | India |
| 1870s | 8.7% | 1.7% | 7.0% | India |
| 1880s | 9.0% | 1.8% | 7.2% | India |
| 1890s | 10.0% | 2.0% | 8.0% | India |
| 1900s | 10.9% | 2.2% | 8.7% | India |
| 1910s | 10.3% | 2.4% | 7.9% | India |
| 1920s | 11.2% | 2.7% | 8.5% | India |
| 1930s | 12.0% | 2.9% | 9.1% | India |
| 1940s | 13.9% | 3.2% | 10.7% | India |
| 1950s | 17.6% | 4.4% | 13.1% | India |
| 1960s | 18.6% | 5.0% | 13.6% | India |
| 1970s | 21.3% | 10.5% | 10.9% | India |
| 1980s | 24.5% | 16.7% | 7.8% | India |
| 1990s | 26.5% | 20.4% | 6.1% | India |
| 2000s | 29.0% | 24.6% | 4.4% | India |
| 2010s | 32.4% | 30.9% | 1.5% | India |
| 2020s | 34.9% | 35.3% | 0.3% | Tanzania |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, India or Tanzania?
- Tanzania, at 36.9% against 35.7% in India as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between India and Tanzania?
- 1.2%, with Tanzania ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for India and Tanzania?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do India and Tanzania rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- India ranks 199th and Tanzania ranks 197th of 238 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) β 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.