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

Ireland

64.6%

in 2025

Tuvalu

65.4%

in 2025

Ireland rank

124th

Tuvalu rank

122nd

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

Tuvalu currently reports 65.4% against 64.6% in Ireland, a difference of 0.9%.

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

Ireland ranks 124th and Tuvalu ranks 122nd 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.