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

Lithuania

69.1%

in 2025

New Caledonia

68.2%

in 2025

Lithuania rank

111th

New Caledonia rank

113th

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

Lithuania currently reports 69.1% against 68.2% in New Caledonia, a difference of 0.9%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Lithuania ahead.

Lithuania ranks 111th and New Caledonia ranks 113th 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.