Mexico vs Oman: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Mexico

80.0%

in 2025

Oman

79.5%

in 2025

Mexico rank

70th

Oman rank

73rd

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

Mexico currently reports 80.0% against 79.5% in Oman, a difference of 0.6%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Mexico ahead.

Mexico ranks 70th and Oman ranks 73rd 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.