Morocco vs Nigeria: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Morocco
63.1%
in 2025
Nigeria
63.8%
in 2025
Morocco rank
131st
Nigeria rank
128th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Morocco
- Nigeria
How they compare
Nigeria currently reports 63.8% against 63.1% in Morocco, a difference of 0.7%.
The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Morocco ahead.
Morocco ranks 131st and Nigeria ranks 128th of 238 countries.
Morocco has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Morocco | Nigeria | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Morocco |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Morocco |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Morocco |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Morocco |
| 1400s | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | Morocco |
| 1500s | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | Morocco |
| 1600s | 0.9% | 0.3% | 0.5% | Morocco |
| 1700s | 2.6% | 1.0% | 1.6% | Morocco |
| 1710s | 2.9% | 1.1% | 1.8% | Morocco |
| 1720s | 3.2% | 1.2% | 2.0% | Morocco |
| 1730s | 3.5% | 1.3% | 2.2% | Morocco |
| 1740s | 3.9% | 1.5% | 2.4% | Morocco |
| 1750s | 4.2% | 1.6% | 2.6% | Morocco |
| 1760s | 4.6% | 1.8% | 2.9% | Morocco |
| 1770s | 5.1% | 1.9% | 3.1% | Morocco |
| 1780s | 5.6% | 2.1% | 3.4% | Morocco |
| 1790s | 6.1% | 2.3% | 3.8% | Morocco |
| 1800s | 6.7% | 2.5% | 4.1% | Morocco |
| 1810s | 7.3% | 2.8% | 4.5% | Morocco |
| 1820s | 8.0% | 3.0% | 5.0% | Morocco |
| 1830s | 8.8% | 3.3% | 5.4% | Morocco |
| 1840s | 9.6% | 3.6% | 6.0% | Morocco |
| 1850s | 10.5% | 4.0% | 6.5% | Morocco |
| 1860s | 11.5% | 4.4% | 7.1% | Morocco |
| 1870s | 12.6% | 4.8% | 7.8% | Morocco |
| 1880s | 13.8% | 5.2% | 8.6% | Morocco |
| 1890s | 15.1% | 5.7% | 9.4% | Morocco |
| 1900s | 16.6% | 6.3% | 10.3% | Morocco |
| 1910s | 18.1% | 6.9% | 11.3% | Morocco |
| 1920s | 19.9% | 7.5% | 12.3% | Morocco |
| 1930s | 21.7% | 8.2% | 13.5% | Morocco |
| 1940s | 23.8% | 9.0% | 14.8% | Morocco |
| 1950s | 27.6% | 11.7% | 15.9% | Morocco |
| 1960s | 31.5% | 16.8% | 14.7% | Morocco |
| 1970s | 37.3% | 23.4% | 14.0% | Morocco |
| 1980s | 44.4% | 30.9% | 13.5% | Morocco |
| 1990s | 51.2% | 38.8% | 12.4% | Morocco |
| 2000s | 55.4% | 47.1% | 8.3% | Morocco |
| 2010s | 60.3% | 55.3% | 5.0% | Morocco |
| 2020s | 62.6% | 61.8% | 0.8% | Morocco |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Morocco or Nigeria?
- Nigeria, at 63.8% against 63.1% in Morocco as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Morocco and Nigeria?
- 0.7%, with Nigeria ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Morocco and Nigeria?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Morocco and Nigeria rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Morocco ranks 131st and Nigeria ranks 128th 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.