Mauritania vs Poland: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Mauritania

61.5%

in 2025

Poland

60.1%

in 2025

Mauritania rank

139th

Poland rank

141st

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

Mauritania currently reports 61.5% against 60.1% in Poland, a difference of 1.4%.

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

Mauritania ranks 139th and Poland ranks 141st 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.