Rwanda vs Saint Lucia: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Rwanda
30.9%
in 2025
Saint Lucia
29.1%
in 2025
Rwanda rank
212th
Saint Lucia rank
215th

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

  • Rwanda
  • Saint Lucia
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How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 30.9% against 29.1% in Saint Lucia, a difference of 1.8%.

That makes Rwanda's figure about 1.1 times Saint Lucia's.

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

Rwanda ranks 212th and Saint Lucia ranks 215th 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
Last refreshed

Share of the population living in urban areas, combining UN estimates with modelled historical data.