India vs Yemen: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
India
35.7%
in 2025
Yemen
37.0%
in 2025
India rank
199th
Yemen rank
196th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- India
- Yemen
How they compare
Yemen currently reports 37.0% against 35.7% in India, a difference of 1.3%.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was India ahead.
India ranks 199th and Yemen ranks 196th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, India averaged higher in 38 and Yemen in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | India | Yemen | 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% | 0.1% | 13.0% | India |
| 1600s | 15.0% | 0.2% | 14.8% | India |
| 1700s | 14.0% | 0.6% | 13.4% | India |
| 1710s | 13.9% | 0.6% | 13.3% | India |
| 1720s | 13.8% | 0.7% | 13.1% | India |
| 1730s | 13.7% | 0.8% | 12.9% | India |
| 1740s | 13.6% | 0.8% | 12.8% | India |
| 1750s | 13.5% | 0.9% | 12.6% | India |
| 1760s | 13.4% | 1.0% | 12.4% | India |
| 1770s | 13.3% | 1.1% | 12.2% | India |
| 1780s | 13.2% | 1.2% | 12.0% | India |
| 1790s | 13.1% | 1.3% | 11.8% | India |
| 1800s | 13.0% | 1.5% | 11.5% | India |
| 1810s | 13.0% | 1.6% | 11.4% | India |
| 1820s | 12.0% | 1.7% | 10.3% | India |
| 1830s | 12.0% | 1.9% | 10.1% | India |
| 1840s | 11.0% | 2.1% | 8.9% | India |
| 1850s | 11.0% | 2.3% | 8.7% | India |
| 1860s | 10.0% | 2.5% | 7.5% | India |
| 1870s | 8.7% | 2.7% | 6.0% | India |
| 1880s | 9.0% | 3.0% | 6.0% | India |
| 1890s | 10.0% | 3.3% | 6.7% | India |
| 1900s | 10.9% | 3.6% | 7.3% | India |
| 1910s | 10.3% | 4.0% | 6.3% | India |
| 1920s | 11.2% | 4.3% | 6.9% | India |
| 1930s | 12.0% | 4.7% | 7.3% | India |
| 1940s | 13.9% | 5.2% | 8.7% | India |
| 1950s | 17.6% | 2.5% | 15.1% | India |
| 1960s | 18.6% | 4.4% | 14.2% | India |
| 1970s | 21.3% | 8.5% | 12.8% | India |
| 1980s | 24.5% | 15.9% | 8.6% | India |
| 1990s | 26.5% | 23.3% | 3.1% | India |
| 2000s | 29.0% | 28.6% | 0.4% | India |
| 2010s | 32.4% | 32.4% | 0.0% | Yemen |
| 2020s | 34.9% | 36.4% | 1.5% | Yemen |
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 Yemen?
- Yemen, at 37.0% 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 Yemen?
- 1.3%, with Yemen ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for India and Yemen?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do India and Yemen rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- India ranks 199th and Yemen ranks 196th 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.