Moldova vs Togo: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Moldova
43.7%
in 2025
Togo
44.4%
in 2025
Moldova rank
180th
Togo rank
179th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Moldova
- Togo
How they compare
Togo currently reports 44.4% against 43.7% in Moldova, a difference of 0.7%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Moldova ahead.
Moldova ranks 180th and Togo ranks 179th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Moldova averaged higher in 34 and Togo in 6.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Moldova | Togo | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Moldova |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Moldova |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Moldova |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Moldova |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Moldova |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | Moldova |
| 1600s | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | Moldova |
| 1700s | 1.0% | 0.4% | 0.6% | Moldova |
| 1710s | 1.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | Moldova |
| 1720s | 1.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | Moldova |
| 1730s | 1.0% | 0.6% | 0.4% | Moldova |
| 1740s | 1.0% | 0.6% | 0.4% | Moldova |
| 1750s | 1.0% | 0.7% | 0.3% | Moldova |
| 1760s | 1.0% | 0.7% | 0.3% | Moldova |
| 1770s | 1.0% | 0.8% | 0.2% | Moldova |
| 1780s | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.1% | Moldova |
| 1790s | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | Moldova |
| 1800s | 1.0% | 1.1% | 0.1% | Togo |
| 1810s | 1.0% | 1.2% | 0.2% | Togo |
| 1820s | 1.0% | 1.3% | 0.3% | Togo |
| 1830s | 1.1% | 1.4% | 0.3% | Togo |
| 1840s | 1.4% | 1.5% | 0.1% | Togo |
| 1850s | 1.8% | 1.7% | 0.1% | Moldova |
| 1860s | 2.2% | 1.8% | 0.4% | Moldova |
| 1870s | 2.8% | 2.0% | 0.8% | Moldova |
| 1880s | 3.5% | 2.2% | 1.3% | Moldova |
| 1890s | 4.3% | 2.4% | 1.9% | Moldova |
| 1900s | 5.4% | 2.6% | 2.8% | Moldova |
| 1910s | 6.8% | 2.9% | 3.9% | Moldova |
| 1920s | 8.4% | 3.2% | 5.3% | Moldova |
| 1930s | 10.6% | 3.5% | 7.1% | Moldova |
| 1940s | 13.2% | 3.8% | 9.4% | Moldova |
| 1950s | 19.9% | 8.3% | 11.6% | Moldova |
| 1960s | 26.9% | 15.8% | 11.0% | Moldova |
| 1970s | 35.9% | 23.0% | 12.9% | Moldova |
| 1980s | 43.3% | 26.4% | 16.9% | Moldova |
| 1990s | 44.9% | 30.6% | 14.3% | Moldova |
| 2000s | 39.5% | 35.1% | 4.4% | Moldova |
| 2010s | 39.8% | 39.5% | 0.3% | Moldova |
| 2020s | 42.6% | 43.1% | 0.4% | Togo |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Moldova or Togo?
- Togo, at 44.4% against 43.7% in Moldova as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Moldova and Togo?
- 0.7%, with Togo ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Moldova and Togo?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Moldova and Togo rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Moldova ranks 180th and Togo ranks 179th of 238 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) – 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.