Mali vs Uganda: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Mali
32.2%
in 2025
Uganda
31.9%
in 2025
Mali rank
207th
Uganda rank
209th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Mali
- Uganda
How they compare
Mali currently reports 32.2% against 31.9% in Uganda, a difference of 0.3%.
Across all 108 years both countries report, Mali has been ahead every year.
Mali ranks 207th and Uganda ranks 209th of 238 countries.
Mali has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Mali | Uganda | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Mali |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Mali |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Mali |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Mali |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Mali |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | Mali |
| 1600s | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | Mali |
| 1700s | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.5% | Mali |
| 1710s | 0.9% | 0.3% | 0.5% | Mali |
| 1720s | 0.9% | 0.3% | 0.6% | Mali |
| 1730s | 1.0% | 0.4% | 0.7% | Mali |
| 1740s | 1.1% | 0.4% | 0.7% | Mali |
| 1750s | 1.2% | 0.5% | 0.8% | Mali |
| 1760s | 1.4% | 0.5% | 0.9% | Mali |
| 1770s | 1.5% | 0.5% | 0.9% | Mali |
| 1780s | 1.6% | 0.6% | 1.0% | Mali |
| 1790s | 1.8% | 0.7% | 1.1% | Mali |
| 1800s | 2.0% | 0.7% | 1.2% | Mali |
| 1810s | 2.1% | 0.8% | 1.4% | Mali |
| 1820s | 2.4% | 0.9% | 1.5% | Mali |
| 1830s | 2.6% | 0.9% | 1.6% | Mali |
| 1840s | 2.8% | 1.0% | 1.8% | Mali |
| 1850s | 3.1% | 1.1% | 2.0% | Mali |
| 1860s | 3.4% | 1.2% | 2.1% | Mali |
| 1870s | 3.7% | 1.4% | 2.3% | Mali |
| 1880s | 4.1% | 1.5% | 2.6% | Mali |
| 1890s | 4.4% | 1.6% | 2.8% | Mali |
| 1900s | 4.9% | 1.8% | 3.1% | Mali |
| 1910s | 5.3% | 2.0% | 3.4% | Mali |
| 1920s | 5.8% | 2.1% | 3.7% | Mali |
| 1930s | 6.4% | 2.4% | 4.1% | Mali |
| 1940s | 7.0% | 2.6% | 4.4% | Mali |
| 1950s | 5.4% | 3.7% | 1.8% | Mali |
| 1960s | 8.7% | 5.3% | 3.4% | Mali |
| 1970s | 12.3% | 6.4% | 5.9% | Mali |
| 1980s | 15.3% | 8.0% | 7.3% | Mali |
| 1990s | 17.6% | 10.6% | 6.9% | Mali |
| 2000s | 20.7% | 13.9% | 6.8% | Mali |
| 2010s | 25.6% | 23.9% | 1.7% | Mali |
| 2020s | 30.7% | 30.3% | 0.4% | Mali |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Mali or Uganda?
- Mali, at 32.2% against 31.9% in Uganda as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Mali and Uganda?
- 0.3%, with Mali ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Mali and Uganda?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Mali and Uganda rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Mali ranks 207th and Uganda ranks 209th of 238 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) β 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.