Statizoid

Niger vs Tonga: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Niger
18.4%
in 2025
Tonga
21.2%
in 2025
Niger rank
231st
Tonga rank
229th

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

  • Niger
  • Tonga
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How they compare

Tonga currently reports 21.2% against 18.4% in Niger, a difference of 2.8%.

That makes Tonga's figure about 1.2 times Niger's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Niger ahead.

Niger ranks 231st and Tonga ranks 229th of 238 countries.

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About this data

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

Share of the population living in urban areas, combining UN estimates with modelled historical data.