Qatar vs San Marino: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Qatar

99.4%

in 2025

San Marino

97.2%

in 2025

Qatar rank

16th

San Marino rank

18th

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

Qatar currently reports 99.4% against 97.2% in San Marino, a difference of 2.2%.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 76 shared years of data; in 1950 it was San Marino ahead.

Qatar ranks 16th and San Marino ranks 18th 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.