Iran vs Malaysia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Iran

77.4%

in 2025

Malaysia

77.4%

in 2025

Iran rank

83rd

Malaysia rank

82nd

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

Malaysia currently reports 77.4% against 77.4% in Iran, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Iran ahead.

Iran ranks 83rd and Malaysia ranks 82nd 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.