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

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.

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.