Niger vs Samoa: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Niger
18.4%
in 2025
Samoa
17.5%
in 2025
Niger rank
231st
Samoa rank
233rd
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Niger
- Samoa
How they compare
Niger currently reports 18.4% against 17.5% in Samoa, a difference of 0.9%.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Niger ahead.
Niger ranks 231st and Samoa ranks 233rd of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Niger averaged higher in 17 and Samoa in 23.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Niger | Samoa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Niger |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Niger |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Niger |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Niger |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Niger |
| 1500s | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | Niger |
| 1600s | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.2% | Niger |
| 1700s | 0.5% | 0.0% | 0.5% | Niger |
| 1710s | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.2% | Niger |
| 1720s | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | Niger |
| 1730s | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | Niger |
| 1740s | 0.7% | 0.5% | 0.2% | Niger |
| 1750s | 0.8% | 0.6% | 0.2% | Niger |
| 1760s | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.1% | Niger |
| 1770s | 0.9% | 0.8% | 0.1% | Niger |
| 1780s | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.1% | Niger |
| 1790s | 1.1% | 1.1% | 0.0% | Samoa |
| 1800s | 1.2% | 1.3% | 0.1% | Samoa |
| 1810s | 1.3% | 1.5% | 0.2% | Samoa |
| 1820s | 1.4% | 1.7% | 0.3% | Samoa |
| 1830s | 1.6% | 2.0% | 0.5% | Samoa |
| 1840s | 1.7% | 2.4% | 0.6% | Samoa |
| 1850s | 1.9% | 2.8% | 0.9% | Samoa |
| 1860s | 2.1% | 3.2% | 1.2% | Samoa |
| 1870s | 2.3% | 3.8% | 1.5% | Samoa |
| 1880s | 2.5% | 4.4% | 1.9% | Samoa |
| 1890s | 2.7% | 5.1% | 2.4% | Samoa |
| 1900s | 3.0% | 6.0% | 3.0% | Samoa |
| 1910s | 3.2% | 7.0% | 3.7% | Samoa |
| 1920s | 3.6% | 8.1% | 4.6% | Samoa |
| 1930s | 3.9% | 9.5% | 5.6% | Samoa |
| 1940s | 4.3% | 11.0% | 6.8% | Samoa |
| 1950s | 5.3% | 16.8% | 11.5% | Samoa |
| 1960s | 6.8% | 19.3% | 12.5% | Samoa |
| 1970s | 11.5% | 20.9% | 9.4% | Samoa |
| 1980s | 14.6% | 20.8% | 6.2% | Samoa |
| 1990s | 15.7% | 21.5% | 5.7% | Samoa |
| 2000s | 16.3% | 21.3% | 5.0% | Samoa |
| 2010s | 16.4% | 19.2% | 2.8% | Samoa |
| 2020s | 17.6% | 17.6% | 0.0% | Niger |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Niger or Samoa?
- Niger, at 18.4% against 17.5% in Samoa as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Niger and Samoa?
- 0.9%, with Niger ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Niger and Samoa?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Niger and Samoa rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Niger ranks 231st and Samoa ranks 233rd of 238 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) β 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.