Norway vs Peru: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Norway
83.6%
in 2025
Peru
85.6%
in 2025
Norway rank
59th
Peru rank
56th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Norway
- Peru
How they compare
Peru currently reports 85.6% against 83.6% in Norway, a difference of 2.0%.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Norway ahead.
Norway ranks 59th and Peru ranks 56th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Norway averaged higher in 38 and Peru in 2.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Norway | Peru | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | Norway |
| 1100s | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.2% | Norway |
| 1200s | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.3% | Norway |
| 1300s | 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.4% | Norway |
| 1400s | 0.6% | 0.1% | 0.5% | Norway |
| 1500s | 0.9% | 0.4% | 0.5% | Norway |
| 1600s | 1.4% | 1.3% | 0.1% | Norway |
| 1700s | 4.0% | 4.0% | 0.0% | Peru |
| 1710s | 5.9% | 4.5% | 1.3% | Norway |
| 1720s | 7.7% | 4.9% | 2.8% | Norway |
| 1730s | 9.6% | 5.4% | 4.2% | Norway |
| 1740s | 11.4% | 5.9% | 5.5% | Norway |
| 1750s | 13.3% | 6.5% | 6.8% | Norway |
| 1760s | 15.1% | 7.1% | 8.0% | Norway |
| 1770s | 17.0% | 7.8% | 9.2% | Norway |
| 1780s | 18.9% | 8.5% | 10.3% | Norway |
| 1790s | 20.7% | 9.3% | 11.4% | Norway |
| 1800s | 22.6% | 10.2% | 12.3% | Norway |
| 1810s | 24.4% | 11.2% | 13.2% | Norway |
| 1820s | 26.3% | 12.3% | 14.0% | Norway |
| 1830s | 28.2% | 13.4% | 14.7% | Norway |
| 1840s | 30.0% | 14.7% | 15.3% | Norway |
| 1850s | 31.9% | 16.1% | 15.7% | Norway |
| 1860s | 33.7% | 17.7% | 16.1% | Norway |
| 1870s | 35.6% | 19.4% | 16.2% | Norway |
| 1880s | 37.4% | 21.2% | 16.3% | Norway |
| 1890s | 39.3% | 23.2% | 16.1% | Norway |
| 1900s | 41.2% | 25.4% | 15.7% | Norway |
| 1910s | 43.0% | 27.8% | 15.2% | Norway |
| 1920s | 44.9% | 30.5% | 14.4% | Norway |
| 1930s | 46.7% | 33.4% | 13.4% | Norway |
| 1940s | 48.6% | 36.5% | 12.1% | Norway |
| 1950s | 48.2% | 42.8% | 5.4% | Norway |
| 1960s | 55.5% | 51.2% | 4.2% | Norway |
| 1970s | 68.4% | 61.2% | 7.1% | Norway |
| 1980s | 71.2% | 66.7% | 4.5% | Norway |
| 1990s | 73.8% | 70.7% | 3.1% | Norway |
| 2000s | 77.6% | 74.7% | 3.0% | Norway |
| 2010s | 80.8% | 80.3% | 0.5% | Norway |
| 2020s | 83.1% | 84.6% | 1.5% | Peru |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Norway or Peru?
- Peru, at 85.6% against 83.6% in Norway as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Norway and Peru?
- 2.0%, with Peru ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Norway and Peru?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Norway and Peru rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Norway ranks 59th and Peru ranks 56th 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.