Kiribati vs Nigeria: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Kiribati
63.4%
in 2025
Nigeria
63.8%
in 2025
Kiribati rank
130th
Nigeria rank
128th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Kiribati
- Nigeria
How they compare
Nigeria currently reports 63.8% against 63.4% in Kiribati, a difference of 0.4%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Kiribati ahead.
Kiribati ranks 130th and Nigeria ranks 128th of 238 countries.
Across the 8 decades both report, Kiribati averaged higher in 4 and Nigeria in 4.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Kiribati | Nigeria | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 12.5% | 11.7% | 0.8% | Kiribati |
| 1960s | 19.9% | 16.8% | 3.1% | Kiribati |
| 1970s | 27.7% | 23.4% | 4.3% | Kiribati |
| 1980s | 33.5% | 30.9% | 2.6% | Kiribati |
| 1990s | 37.2% | 38.8% | 1.5% | Nigeria |
| 2000s | 44.3% | 47.1% | 2.9% | Nigeria |
| 2010s | 51.4% | 55.3% | 3.9% | Nigeria |
| 2020s | 61.0% | 61.8% | 0.8% | Nigeria |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Kiribati or Nigeria?
- Nigeria, at 63.8% against 63.4% in Kiribati as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Kiribati and Nigeria?
- 0.4%, with Nigeria ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Kiribati and Nigeria?
- 76 years are reported by both, from 1950 to 2025.
- How do Kiribati and Nigeria rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Kiribati ranks 130th and Nigeria ranks 128th 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.