Panama vs Suriname: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Panama
66.2%
in 2025
Suriname
65.8%
in 2025
Panama rank
118th
Suriname rank
120th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Panama
- Suriname
How they compare
Panama currently reports 66.2% against 65.8% in Suriname, a difference of 0.4%.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Panama ahead.
Panama ranks 118th and Suriname ranks 120th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Panama averaged higher in 23 and Suriname in 17.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Panama | Suriname | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Panama |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Panama |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Panama |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Panama |
| 1400s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Panama |
| 1500s | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.1% | Panama |
| 1600s | 1.2% | 0.8% | 0.4% | Panama |
| 1700s | 3.6% | 2.5% | 1.1% | Panama |
| 1710s | 4.0% | 2.8% | 1.3% | Panama |
| 1720s | 4.4% | 3.1% | 1.3% | Panama |
| 1730s | 4.8% | 3.5% | 1.3% | Panama |
| 1740s | 5.3% | 4.0% | 1.3% | Panama |
| 1750s | 5.8% | 4.4% | 1.4% | Panama |
| 1760s | 6.4% | 5.0% | 1.4% | Panama |
| 1770s | 7.0% | 5.6% | 1.3% | Panama |
| 1780s | 7.6% | 6.3% | 1.3% | Panama |
| 1790s | 8.3% | 7.1% | 1.2% | Panama |
| 1800s | 9.1% | 8.0% | 1.1% | Panama |
| 1810s | 10.0% | 9.0% | 1.0% | Panama |
| 1820s | 11.0% | 10.1% | 0.8% | Panama |
| 1830s | 12.0% | 11.4% | 0.6% | Panama |
| 1840s | 13.2% | 12.8% | 0.3% | Panama |
| 1850s | 14.4% | 14.4% | 0.0% | Suriname |
| 1860s | 15.8% | 16.2% | 0.5% | Suriname |
| 1870s | 17.3% | 18.3% | 1.0% | Suriname |
| 1880s | 18.9% | 20.6% | 1.6% | Suriname |
| 1890s | 20.7% | 23.1% | 2.4% | Suriname |
| 1900s | 22.7% | 26.0% | 3.3% | Suriname |
| 1910s | 24.9% | 29.3% | 4.4% | Suriname |
| 1920s | 27.2% | 32.9% | 5.7% | Suriname |
| 1930s | 29.8% | 37.0% | 7.2% | Suriname |
| 1940s | 32.7% | 41.7% | 9.0% | Suriname |
| 1950s | 39.4% | 47.7% | 8.3% | Suriname |
| 1960s | 44.2% | 64.9% | 20.7% | Suriname |
| 1970s | 48.6% | 66.0% | 17.4% | Suriname |
| 1980s | 51.4% | 66.2% | 14.8% | Suriname |
| 1990s | 57.8% | 66.5% | 8.8% | Suriname |
| 2000s | 63.8% | 66.7% | 2.9% | Suriname |
| 2010s | 65.5% | 66.2% | 0.8% | Suriname |
| 2020s | 65.9% | 65.9% | 0.0% | Panama |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Panama or Suriname?
- Panama, at 66.2% against 65.8% in Suriname as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Panama and Suriname?
- 0.4%, with Panama ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Panama and Suriname?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Panama and Suriname rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Panama ranks 118th and Suriname ranks 120th of 238 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- HYDE (2023); United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) – 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.