Iraq vs Paraguay: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Iraq
69.9%
in 2025
Paraguay
70.4%
in 2025
Iraq rank
106th
Paraguay rank
105th

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

  • Iraq
  • Paraguay
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How they compare

Paraguay currently reports 70.4% against 69.9% in Iraq, a difference of 0.5%.

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

Iraq ranks 106th and Paraguay ranks 105th of 238 countries.

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About this data

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

Share of the population living in urban areas, combining UN estimates with modelled historical data.