Norway vs United Kingdom: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Norway

83.6%

in 2025

United Kingdom

83.3%

in 2025

Norway rank

59th

United Kingdom rank

60th

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

Norway currently reports 83.6% against 83.3% in United Kingdom, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was United Kingdom ahead.

Norway ranks 59th and United Kingdom ranks 60th 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.