Latvia vs Lithuania: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Latvia
68.6%
in 2025
Lithuania
69.1%
in 2025
Latvia rank
112th
Lithuania rank
111th

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

  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
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How they compare

Lithuania currently reports 69.1% against 68.6% in Latvia, a difference of 0.4%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Latvia ahead.

Latvia ranks 112th and Lithuania ranks 111th of 238 countries.

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About this data

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