Statizoid

Maldives vs Zimbabwe: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Maldives
42.5%
in 2025
Zimbabwe
40.5%
in 2025
Maldives rank
183rd
Zimbabwe rank
186th

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

  • Maldives
  • Zimbabwe
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How they compare

Maldives currently reports 42.5% against 40.5% in Zimbabwe, a difference of 2.0%.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Maldives ahead.

Maldives ranks 183rd and Zimbabwe ranks 186th 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
Last refreshed

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