Kenya vs Uganda: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Kenya
32.2%
in 2025
Uganda
31.9%
in 2025
Kenya rank
208th
Uganda rank
209th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Kenya
- Uganda
How they compare
Kenya currently reports 32.2% against 31.9% in Uganda, a difference of 0.3%.
Across all 108 years both countries report, Kenya has been ahead every year.
Kenya ranks 208th and Uganda ranks 209th of 238 countries.
Kenya has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Kenya | Uganda | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Kenya |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Kenya |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Kenya |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Kenya |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Kenya |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Kenya |
| 1600s | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | Kenya |
| 1700s | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.3% | Kenya |
| 1710s | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.3% | Kenya |
| 1720s | 0.7% | 0.3% | 0.3% | Kenya |
| 1730s | 0.8% | 0.4% | 0.4% | Kenya |
| 1740s | 0.8% | 0.4% | 0.4% | Kenya |
| 1750s | 0.9% | 0.5% | 0.4% | Kenya |
| 1760s | 1.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | Kenya |
| 1770s | 1.1% | 0.5% | 0.5% | Kenya |
| 1780s | 1.2% | 0.6% | 0.6% | Kenya |
| 1790s | 1.3% | 0.7% | 0.6% | Kenya |
| 1800s | 1.4% | 0.7% | 0.7% | Kenya |
| 1810s | 1.6% | 0.8% | 0.8% | Kenya |
| 1820s | 1.7% | 0.9% | 0.8% | Kenya |
| 1830s | 1.9% | 0.9% | 0.9% | Kenya |
| 1840s | 2.1% | 1.0% | 1.0% | Kenya |
| 1850s | 2.3% | 1.1% | 1.1% | Kenya |
| 1860s | 2.5% | 1.2% | 1.2% | Kenya |
| 1870s | 2.7% | 1.4% | 1.3% | Kenya |
| 1880s | 3.0% | 1.5% | 1.5% | Kenya |
| 1890s | 3.2% | 1.6% | 1.6% | Kenya |
| 1900s | 3.5% | 1.8% | 1.8% | Kenya |
| 1910s | 3.9% | 2.0% | 1.9% | Kenya |
| 1920s | 4.3% | 2.1% | 2.1% | Kenya |
| 1930s | 4.7% | 2.4% | 2.3% | Kenya |
| 1940s | 5.1% | 2.6% | 2.5% | Kenya |
| 1950s | 7.0% | 3.7% | 3.3% | Kenya |
| 1960s | 9.0% | 5.3% | 3.8% | Kenya |
| 1970s | 12.8% | 6.4% | 6.4% | Kenya |
| 1980s | 17.1% | 8.0% | 9.1% | Kenya |
| 1990s | 18.6% | 10.6% | 8.0% | Kenya |
| 2000s | 26.1% | 13.9% | 12.1% | Kenya |
| 2010s | 31.7% | 23.9% | 7.8% | Kenya |
| 2020s | 31.6% | 30.3% | 1.4% | 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 Uganda?
- Kenya, at 32.2% against 31.9% in Uganda as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Kenya and Uganda?
- 0.3%, with Kenya ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Kenya and Uganda?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Kenya and Uganda rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Kenya ranks 208th and Uganda ranks 209th 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.