Namibia vs Turkmenistan: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Namibia

50.9%

in 2025

Turkmenistan

47.1%

in 2025

Namibia rank

169th

Turkmenistan rank

171st

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

Namibia currently reports 50.9% against 47.1% in Turkmenistan, a difference of 3.8%.

That makes Namibia's figure about 1.1 times Turkmenistan's.

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

Namibia ranks 169th and Turkmenistan ranks 171st 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.