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Papua New Guinea vs Samoa: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Papua New Guinea
15.8%
in 2025
Samoa
17.5%
in 2025
Papua New Guinea rank
234th
Samoa rank
233rd

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

  • Papua New Guinea
  • Samoa
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How they compare

Samoa currently reports 17.5% against 15.8% in Papua New Guinea, a difference of 1.7%.

That makes Samoa's figure about 1.1 times Papua New Guinea's.

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

Papua New Guinea ranks 234th and Samoa ranks 233rd 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
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Share of the population living in urban areas, combining UN estimates with modelled historical data.