Rwanda vs Solomon Islands: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Rwanda

30.9%

in 2025

Solomon Islands

31.3%

in 2025

Rwanda rank

212th

Solomon Islands rank

211th

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

Solomon Islands currently reports 31.3% against 30.9% in Rwanda, a difference of 0.4%.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Rwanda ahead.

Rwanda ranks 212th and Solomon Islands ranks 211th 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.