Morocco vs Thailand: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Morocco
63.1%
in 2025
Thailand
62.8%
in 2025
Morocco rank
131st
Thailand rank
133rd
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Morocco
- Thailand
How they compare
Morocco currently reports 63.1% against 62.8% in Thailand, a difference of 0.3%.
Across all 108 years both countries report, Morocco has been ahead every year.
Morocco ranks 131st and Thailand ranks 133rd of 238 countries.
Morocco has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Morocco | Thailand | 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% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Morocco |
| 1500s | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | Morocco |
| 1600s | 0.9% | 0.5% | 0.3% | Morocco |
| 1700s | 2.6% | 1.6% | 1.0% | Morocco |
| 1710s | 2.9% | 1.8% | 1.1% | Morocco |
| 1720s | 3.2% | 2.0% | 1.2% | Morocco |
| 1730s | 3.5% | 2.2% | 1.3% | Morocco |
| 1740s | 3.9% | 2.4% | 1.4% | Morocco |
| 1750s | 4.2% | 2.7% | 1.6% | Morocco |
| 1760s | 4.6% | 2.9% | 1.7% | Morocco |
| 1770s | 5.1% | 3.2% | 1.9% | Morocco |
| 1780s | 5.6% | 3.5% | 2.1% | Morocco |
| 1790s | 6.1% | 3.8% | 2.3% | Morocco |
| 1800s | 6.7% | 4.2% | 2.5% | Morocco |
| 1810s | 7.3% | 4.6% | 2.7% | Morocco |
| 1820s | 8.0% | 5.0% | 3.0% | Morocco |
| 1830s | 8.8% | 5.5% | 3.3% | Morocco |
| 1840s | 9.6% | 6.0% | 3.6% | Morocco |
| 1850s | 10.5% | 6.6% | 3.9% | Morocco |
| 1860s | 11.5% | 7.2% | 4.3% | Morocco |
| 1870s | 12.6% | 7.9% | 4.7% | Morocco |
| 1880s | 13.8% | 8.7% | 5.1% | Morocco |
| 1890s | 15.1% | 9.5% | 5.6% | Morocco |
| 1900s | 16.6% | 10.4% | 6.1% | Morocco |
| 1910s | 18.1% | 11.4% | 6.7% | Morocco |
| 1920s | 19.9% | 12.5% | 7.4% | Morocco |
| 1930s | 21.7% | 13.7% | 8.1% | Morocco |
| 1940s | 23.8% | 15.0% | 8.8% | Morocco |
| 1950s | 27.6% | 11.0% | 16.6% | Morocco |
| 1960s | 31.5% | 12.4% | 19.1% | Morocco |
| 1970s | 37.3% | 15.0% | 22.3% | Morocco |
| 1980s | 44.4% | 17.8% | 26.6% | Morocco |
| 1990s | 51.2% | 23.8% | 27.4% | Morocco |
| 2000s | 55.4% | 37.4% | 18.0% | Morocco |
| 2010s | 60.3% | 48.1% | 12.2% | Morocco |
| 2020s | 62.6% | 60.2% | 2.4% | 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 Thailand?
- Morocco, at 63.1% against 62.8% in Thailand as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Morocco and Thailand?
- 0.3%, with Morocco ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Morocco and Thailand?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Morocco and Thailand rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Morocco ranks 131st and Thailand ranks 133rd 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.