Martinique vs Reunion: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Martinique
96.8%
in 2025
Reunion
97.3%
in 2025
Martinique rank
19th
Reunion rank
17th

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

  • Martinique
  • Reunion
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How they compare

Reunion currently reports 97.3% against 96.8% in Martinique, a difference of 0.4%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 103 shared years of data; in 1500 it was Reunion ahead.

Martinique ranks 19th and Reunion ranks 17th of 238 regions.

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