Malawi vs Samoa: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Malawi

17.6%

in 2025

Samoa

17.5%

in 2025

Malawi rank

232nd

Samoa rank

233rd

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

Malawi currently reports 17.6% against 17.5% in Samoa, a difference of 0.1%.

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

Malawi ranks 232nd and Samoa ranks 233rd 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.