Laos vs Zimbabwe: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Laos
40.3%
in 2025
Zimbabwe
40.5%
in 2025
Laos rank
187th
Zimbabwe rank
186th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Laos
- Zimbabwe
How they compare
Zimbabwe currently reports 40.5% against 40.3% in Laos, a difference of 0.2%.
Across all 108 years both countries report, Zimbabwe has been ahead every year.
Laos ranks 187th and Zimbabwe ranks 186th of 238 countries.
Zimbabwe has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Laos | Zimbabwe | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Zimbabwe |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Zimbabwe |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Zimbabwe |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Zimbabwe |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Zimbabwe |
| 1500s | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | Zimbabwe |
| 1600s | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | Zimbabwe |
| 1700s | 0.3% | 1.1% | 0.8% | Zimbabwe |
| 1710s | 0.3% | 1.2% | 0.9% | Zimbabwe |
| 1720s | 0.3% | 1.3% | 1.0% | Zimbabwe |
| 1730s | 0.4% | 1.4% | 1.1% | Zimbabwe |
| 1740s | 0.4% | 1.6% | 1.1% | Zimbabwe |
| 1750s | 0.5% | 1.7% | 1.2% | Zimbabwe |
| 1760s | 0.6% | 1.9% | 1.3% | Zimbabwe |
| 1770s | 0.6% | 2.1% | 1.4% | Zimbabwe |
| 1780s | 0.7% | 2.3% | 1.5% | Zimbabwe |
| 1790s | 0.8% | 2.5% | 1.6% | Zimbabwe |
| 1800s | 1.0% | 2.7% | 1.8% | Zimbabwe |
| 1810s | 1.1% | 3.0% | 1.9% | Zimbabwe |
| 1820s | 1.3% | 3.3% | 2.0% | Zimbabwe |
| 1830s | 1.4% | 3.6% | 2.1% | Zimbabwe |
| 1840s | 1.6% | 3.9% | 2.3% | Zimbabwe |
| 1850s | 1.9% | 4.3% | 2.4% | Zimbabwe |
| 1860s | 2.2% | 4.7% | 2.5% | Zimbabwe |
| 1870s | 2.5% | 5.1% | 2.7% | Zimbabwe |
| 1880s | 2.8% | 5.6% | 2.8% | Zimbabwe |
| 1890s | 3.2% | 6.2% | 3.0% | Zimbabwe |
| 1900s | 3.7% | 6.8% | 3.1% | Zimbabwe |
| 1910s | 4.2% | 7.4% | 3.2% | Zimbabwe |
| 1920s | 4.8% | 8.1% | 3.3% | Zimbabwe |
| 1930s | 5.5% | 8.9% | 3.4% | Zimbabwe |
| 1940s | 6.3% | 9.7% | 3.4% | Zimbabwe |
| 1950s | 7.7% | 11.3% | 3.6% | Zimbabwe |
| 1960s | 8.3% | 14.4% | 6.1% | Zimbabwe |
| 1970s | 10.9% | 19.6% | 8.7% | Zimbabwe |
| 1980s | 13.7% | 25.4% | 11.8% | Zimbabwe |
| 1990s | 17.5% | 31.2% | 13.7% | Zimbabwe |
| 2000s | 26.6% | 32.6% | 6.0% | Zimbabwe |
| 2010s | 33.1% | 33.8% | 0.7% | Zimbabwe |
| 2020s | 38.5% | 38.9% | 0.4% | Zimbabwe |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Laos or Zimbabwe?
- Zimbabwe, at 40.5% against 40.3% in Laos as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Laos and Zimbabwe?
- 0.2%, with Zimbabwe ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Laos and Zimbabwe?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Laos and Zimbabwe rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Laos ranks 187th and Zimbabwe ranks 186th 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.