Kenya vs Mali: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Kenya
32.2%
in 2025
Mali
32.2%
in 2025
Kenya rank
208th
Mali rank
207th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Kenya
- Mali
How they compare
Mali currently reports 32.2% against 32.2% in Kenya, a difference of 0.0%.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Mali ahead.
Kenya ranks 208th and Mali ranks 207th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Kenya averaged higher in 8 and Mali in 32.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Kenya | Mali | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Mali |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Mali |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Mali |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Mali |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Mali |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Mali |
| 1600s | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.1% | Mali |
| 1700s | 0.6% | 0.8% | 0.2% | Mali |
| 1710s | 0.6% | 0.9% | 0.2% | Mali |
| 1720s | 0.7% | 0.9% | 0.3% | Mali |
| 1730s | 0.8% | 1.0% | 0.3% | Mali |
| 1740s | 0.8% | 1.1% | 0.3% | Mali |
| 1750s | 0.9% | 1.2% | 0.3% | Mali |
| 1760s | 1.0% | 1.4% | 0.4% | Mali |
| 1770s | 1.1% | 1.5% | 0.4% | Mali |
| 1780s | 1.2% | 1.6% | 0.4% | Mali |
| 1790s | 1.3% | 1.8% | 0.5% | Mali |
| 1800s | 1.4% | 2.0% | 0.5% | Mali |
| 1810s | 1.6% | 2.1% | 0.6% | Mali |
| 1820s | 1.7% | 2.4% | 0.6% | Mali |
| 1830s | 1.9% | 2.6% | 0.7% | Mali |
| 1840s | 2.1% | 2.8% | 0.8% | Mali |
| 1850s | 2.3% | 3.1% | 0.8% | Mali |
| 1860s | 2.5% | 3.4% | 0.9% | Mali |
| 1870s | 2.7% | 3.7% | 1.0% | Mali |
| 1880s | 3.0% | 4.1% | 1.1% | Mali |
| 1890s | 3.2% | 4.4% | 1.2% | Mali |
| 1900s | 3.5% | 4.9% | 1.3% | Mali |
| 1910s | 3.9% | 5.3% | 1.5% | Mali |
| 1920s | 4.3% | 5.8% | 1.6% | Mali |
| 1930s | 4.7% | 6.4% | 1.7% | Mali |
| 1940s | 5.1% | 7.0% | 1.9% | Mali |
| 1950s | 7.0% | 5.4% | 1.6% | Kenya |
| 1960s | 9.0% | 8.7% | 0.4% | Kenya |
| 1970s | 12.8% | 12.3% | 0.5% | Kenya |
| 1980s | 17.1% | 15.3% | 1.8% | Kenya |
| 1990s | 18.6% | 17.6% | 1.0% | Kenya |
| 2000s | 26.1% | 20.7% | 5.3% | Kenya |
| 2010s | 31.7% | 25.6% | 6.0% | Kenya |
| 2020s | 31.6% | 30.7% | 1.0% | Kenya |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Kenya or Mali?
- Mali, at 32.2% against 32.2% in Kenya as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Kenya and Mali?
- 0.0%, with Mali ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Kenya and Mali?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Kenya and Mali rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Kenya ranks 208th and Mali ranks 207th of 238 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) β 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.