Japan vs Jordan: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Japan
92.3%
in 2025
Jordan
93.2%
in 2025
Japan rank
33rd
Jordan rank
31st
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Japan
- Jordan
How they compare
Jordan currently reports 93.2% against 92.3% in Japan, a difference of 0.9%.
The two have swapped places 7 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Japan ahead.
Japan ranks 33rd and Jordan ranks 31st of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Japan averaged higher in 13 and Jordan in 27.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Japan | Jordan | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 2.9% | 2.5% | 0.4% | Japan |
| 1100s | 0.6% | 2.7% | 2.1% | Jordan |
| 1200s | 0.9% | 2.9% | 2.0% | Jordan |
| 1300s | 1.3% | 3.0% | 1.7% | Jordan |
| 1400s | 1.9% | 3.2% | 1.2% | Jordan |
| 1500s | 2.9% | 3.3% | 0.4% | Jordan |
| 1600s | 4.4% | 3.5% | 0.9% | Japan |
| 1700s | 5.0% | 3.6% | 1.4% | Japan |
| 1710s | 5.0% | 4.1% | 0.9% | Japan |
| 1720s | 5.0% | 4.5% | 0.5% | Japan |
| 1730s | 5.0% | 4.9% | 0.1% | Japan |
| 1740s | 5.0% | 5.4% | 0.4% | Jordan |
| 1750s | 5.0% | 5.9% | 0.9% | Jordan |
| 1760s | 5.0% | 6.4% | 1.4% | Jordan |
| 1770s | 5.0% | 7.1% | 2.1% | Jordan |
| 1780s | 5.0% | 7.7% | 2.7% | Jordan |
| 1790s | 5.0% | 8.5% | 3.5% | Jordan |
| 1800s | 5.0% | 9.3% | 4.3% | Jordan |
| 1810s | 5.2% | 10.2% | 4.9% | Jordan |
| 1820s | 5.5% | 11.1% | 5.6% | Jordan |
| 1830s | 5.8% | 12.2% | 6.4% | Jordan |
| 1840s | 6.1% | 13.4% | 7.3% | Jordan |
| 1850s | 6.4% | 14.6% | 8.2% | Jordan |
| 1860s | 6.7% | 16.0% | 9.3% | Jordan |
| 1870s | 7.0% | 17.5% | 10.5% | Jordan |
| 1880s | 7.4% | 19.2% | 11.8% | Jordan |
| 1890s | 7.8% | 21.0% | 13.3% | Jordan |
| 1900s | 20.9% | 23.0% | 2.2% | Jordan |
| 1910s | 22.6% | 25.2% | 2.6% | Jordan |
| 1920s | 24.5% | 27.6% | 3.1% | Jordan |
| 1930s | 27.7% | 30.3% | 2.6% | Jordan |
| 1940s | 30.0% | 33.2% | 3.2% | Jordan |
| 1950s | 52.2% | 38.0% | 14.1% | Japan |
| 1960s | 67.3% | 46.4% | 21.0% | Japan |
| 1970s | 74.8% | 54.6% | 20.2% | Japan |
| 1980s | 76.7% | 66.7% | 10.0% | Japan |
| 1990s | 77.9% | 77.6% | 0.3% | Japan |
| 2000s | 84.6% | 78.9% | 5.7% | Japan |
| 2010s | 91.3% | 87.9% | 3.3% | Japan |
| 2020s | 92.0% | 92.5% | 0.5% | Jordan |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Japan or Jordan?
- Jordan, at 93.2% against 92.3% in Japan as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Japan and Jordan?
- 0.9%, with Jordan ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Japan and Jordan?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Japan and Jordan rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Japan ranks 33rd and Jordan ranks 31st 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 modeled historical data.