Ireland vs Montenegro: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Ireland

64.6%

in 2025

Montenegro

65.6%

in 2025

Ireland rank

124th

Montenegro rank

121st

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

Montenegro currently reports 65.6% against 64.6% in Ireland, a difference of 1.0%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 76 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Ireland ahead.

Ireland ranks 124th and Montenegro ranks 121st of 238 regions.

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.