Italy vs Paraguay: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Italy
69.7%
in 2025
Paraguay
70.4%
in 2025
Italy rank
108th
Paraguay rank
105th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Italy
- Paraguay
How they compare
Paraguay currently reports 70.4% against 69.7% in Italy, a difference of 0.7%.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Italy ahead.
Italy ranks 108th and Paraguay ranks 105th of 238 countries.
Italy has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Italy | Paraguay | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 10.0% | 0.0% | 10.0% | Italy |
| 1100s | 10.0% | 0.0% | 10.0% | Italy |
| 1200s | 12.0% | 0.0% | 12.0% | Italy |
| 1300s | 21.4% | 0.0% | 21.4% | Italy |
| 1400s | 17.6% | 0.1% | 17.5% | Italy |
| 1500s | 21.0% | 0.4% | 20.6% | Italy |
| 1600s | 18.4% | 1.2% | 17.2% | Italy |
| 1700s | 16.9% | 3.5% | 13.4% | Italy |
| 1710s | 17.0% | 3.9% | 13.1% | Italy |
| 1720s | 17.0% | 4.3% | 12.7% | Italy |
| 1730s | 17.1% | 4.7% | 12.4% | Italy |
| 1740s | 17.1% | 5.1% | 12.0% | Italy |
| 1750s | 17.2% | 5.6% | 11.6% | Italy |
| 1760s | 17.3% | 6.1% | 11.1% | Italy |
| 1770s | 17.3% | 6.7% | 10.6% | Italy |
| 1780s | 17.4% | 7.4% | 10.0% | Italy |
| 1790s | 17.4% | 8.1% | 9.4% | Italy |
| 1800s | 17.5% | 8.8% | 8.7% | Italy |
| 1810s | 17.3% | 9.7% | 7.6% | Italy |
| 1820s | 17.1% | 10.6% | 6.5% | Italy |
| 1830s | 16.8% | 11.6% | 5.2% | Italy |
| 1840s | 16.6% | 12.7% | 3.9% | Italy |
| 1850s | 16.4% | 13.9% | 2.5% | Italy |
| 1860s | 16.2% | 15.2% | 1.0% | Italy |
| 1870s | 20.4% | 16.7% | 3.7% | Italy |
| 1880s | 24.6% | 18.3% | 6.3% | Italy |
| 1890s | 28.7% | 20.0% | 8.7% | Italy |
| 1900s | 32.9% | 21.9% | 11.0% | Italy |
| 1910s | 37.1% | 24.0% | 13.1% | Italy |
| 1920s | 41.3% | 26.3% | 15.0% | Italy |
| 1930s | 45.5% | 28.8% | 16.6% | Italy |
| 1940s | 49.6% | 31.6% | 18.1% | Italy |
| 1950s | 56.4% | 35.0% | 21.5% | Italy |
| 1960s | 61.7% | 36.1% | 25.6% | Italy |
| 1970s | 65.7% | 38.5% | 27.2% | Italy |
| 1980s | 66.8% | 45.0% | 21.9% | Italy |
| 1990s | 66.8% | 53.7% | 13.2% | Italy |
| 2000s | 67.6% | 58.7% | 8.9% | Italy |
| 2010s | 69.2% | 61.5% | 7.7% | Italy |
| 2020s | 69.6% | 68.6% | 0.9% | Italy |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Italy or Paraguay?
- Paraguay, at 70.4% against 69.7% in Italy as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Italy and Paraguay?
- 0.7%, with Paraguay ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Italy and Paraguay?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Italy and Paraguay rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Italy ranks 108th and Paraguay ranks 105th of 238 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) – 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 modelled historical data.