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

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.

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.