Laos vs Mauritius: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Laos

40.3%

in 2025

Mauritius

39.0%

in 2025

Laos rank

187th

Mauritius rank

190th

Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time

Laos currently reports 40.3% against 39.0% in Mauritius, a difference of 1.3%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 101 shared years of data; in 1700 it was Laos ahead.

Laos ranks 187th and Mauritius ranks 190th of 238 countries.

Indicator: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Unit: %
Source: HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 239 places, 24,444 data points, 1000–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Share of the population living in urban areas, combining UN estimates with modelled historical data.