Marshall Islands vs Palau: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Marshall Islands

79.1%

in 2025

Palau

79.3%

in 2025

Marshall Islands rank

77th

Palau rank

75th

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

Palau currently reports 79.3% against 79.1% in Marshall Islands, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Palau ahead.

Marshall Islands ranks 77th and Palau ranks 75th 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.