Malawi vs Niger: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Malawi
17.6%
in 2025
Niger
18.4%
in 2025
Malawi rank
232nd
Niger rank
231st
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Malawi
- Niger
How they compare
Niger currently reports 18.4% against 17.6% in Malawi, a difference of 0.8%.
Across all 108 years both countries report, Niger has been ahead every year.
Malawi ranks 232nd and Niger ranks 231st of 238 countries.
Niger has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Malawi | Niger | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Niger |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Niger |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Niger |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Niger |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Niger |
| 1500s | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Niger |
| 1600s | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.0% | Niger |
| 1700s | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.1% | Niger |
| 1710s | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.1% | Niger |
| 1720s | 0.4% | 0.6% | 0.2% | Niger |
| 1730s | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.2% | Niger |
| 1740s | 0.5% | 0.7% | 0.2% | Niger |
| 1750s | 0.6% | 0.8% | 0.2% | Niger |
| 1760s | 0.6% | 0.8% | 0.2% | Niger |
| 1770s | 0.7% | 0.9% | 0.2% | Niger |
| 1780s | 0.7% | 1.0% | 0.3% | Niger |
| 1790s | 0.8% | 1.1% | 0.3% | Niger |
| 1800s | 0.9% | 1.2% | 0.3% | Niger |
| 1810s | 1.0% | 1.3% | 0.4% | Niger |
| 1820s | 1.0% | 1.4% | 0.4% | Niger |
| 1830s | 1.1% | 1.6% | 0.4% | Niger |
| 1840s | 1.3% | 1.7% | 0.5% | Niger |
| 1850s | 1.4% | 1.9% | 0.5% | Niger |
| 1860s | 1.5% | 2.1% | 0.6% | Niger |
| 1870s | 1.7% | 2.3% | 0.6% | Niger |
| 1880s | 1.8% | 2.5% | 0.7% | Niger |
| 1890s | 2.0% | 2.7% | 0.7% | Niger |
| 1900s | 2.2% | 3.0% | 0.8% | Niger |
| 1910s | 2.4% | 3.2% | 0.9% | Niger |
| 1920s | 2.6% | 3.6% | 1.0% | Niger |
| 1930s | 2.9% | 3.9% | 1.0% | Niger |
| 1940s | 3.1% | 4.3% | 1.1% | Niger |
| 1950s | 3.7% | 5.3% | 1.6% | Niger |
| 1960s | 4.6% | 6.8% | 2.2% | Niger |
| 1970s | 7.5% | 11.5% | 4.0% | Niger |
| 1980s | 10.1% | 14.6% | 4.6% | Niger |
| 1990s | 13.3% | 15.7% | 2.4% | Niger |
| 2000s | 15.1% | 16.3% | 1.2% | Niger |
| 2010s | 15.8% | 16.4% | 0.6% | Niger |
| 2020s | 16.9% | 17.6% | 0.8% | Niger |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Malawi or Niger?
- Niger, at 18.4% against 17.6% in Malawi as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Malawi and Niger?
- 0.8%, with Niger ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Malawi and Niger?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Malawi and Niger rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Malawi ranks 232nd and Niger ranks 231st 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.