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

Malawi

17.6%

in 2025

Tonga

21.2%

in 2025

Malawi rank

232nd

Tonga rank

229th

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

Tonga currently reports 21.2% against 17.6% in Malawi, a difference of 3.6%.

That makes Tonga's figure about 1.2 times Malawi's.

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

Malawi ranks 232nd and Tonga ranks 229th 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.