Peru vs Switzerland: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Peru
85.6%
in 2025
Switzerland
85.7%
in 2025
Peru rank
56th
Switzerland rank
55th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Peru
- Switzerland
How they compare
Switzerland currently reports 85.7% against 85.6% in Peru, a difference of 0.1%.
The two have swapped places 7 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Peru ahead.
Peru ranks 56th and Switzerland ranks 55th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Peru averaged higher in 28 and Switzerland in 12.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Peru | Switzerland | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Peru |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Peru |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Peru |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Peru |
| 1400s | 0.1% | 0.7% | 0.5% | Switzerland |
| 1500s | 0.4% | 2.4% | 1.9% | Switzerland |
| 1600s | 1.3% | 2.5% | 1.1% | Switzerland |
| 1700s | 4.0% | 3.3% | 0.7% | Peru |
| 1710s | 4.5% | 3.5% | 1.0% | Peru |
| 1720s | 4.9% | 3.9% | 1.0% | Peru |
| 1730s | 5.4% | 4.3% | 1.1% | Peru |
| 1740s | 5.9% | 4.8% | 1.1% | Peru |
| 1750s | 6.5% | 5.4% | 1.1% | Peru |
| 1760s | 7.1% | 6.0% | 1.2% | Peru |
| 1770s | 7.8% | 6.6% | 1.2% | Peru |
| 1780s | 8.5% | 7.4% | 1.2% | Peru |
| 1790s | 9.3% | 8.2% | 1.2% | Peru |
| 1800s | 10.2% | 9.1% | 1.2% | Peru |
| 1810s | 11.2% | 10.1% | 1.1% | Peru |
| 1820s | 12.3% | 11.2% | 1.1% | Peru |
| 1830s | 13.4% | 12.5% | 1.0% | Peru |
| 1840s | 14.7% | 13.8% | 0.9% | Peru |
| 1850s | 16.1% | 15.4% | 0.8% | Peru |
| 1860s | 17.7% | 17.0% | 0.7% | Peru |
| 1870s | 19.4% | 18.9% | 0.5% | Peru |
| 1880s | 21.2% | 20.9% | 0.3% | Peru |
| 1890s | 23.2% | 23.1% | 0.1% | Peru |
| 1900s | 25.4% | 25.5% | 0.0% | Switzerland |
| 1910s | 27.8% | 28.2% | 0.4% | Switzerland |
| 1920s | 30.5% | 31.3% | 0.9% | Switzerland |
| 1930s | 33.4% | 34.8% | 1.4% | Switzerland |
| 1940s | 36.5% | 38.6% | 2.0% | Switzerland |
| 1950s | 42.8% | 47.3% | 4.4% | Switzerland |
| 1960s | 51.2% | 54.0% | 2.8% | Switzerland |
| 1970s | 61.2% | 59.2% | 2.0% | Peru |
| 1980s | 66.7% | 64.5% | 2.2% | Peru |
| 1990s | 70.7% | 71.1% | 0.4% | Switzerland |
| 2000s | 74.7% | 73.5% | 1.2% | Peru |
| 2010s | 80.3% | 76.0% | 4.3% | Peru |
| 2020s | 84.6% | 84.6% | 0.1% | Switzerland |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Peru or Switzerland?
- Switzerland, at 85.7% against 85.6% in Peru as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Peru and Switzerland?
- 0.1%, with Switzerland ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Peru and Switzerland?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Peru and Switzerland rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Peru ranks 56th and Switzerland ranks 55th 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.