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
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.
Saint Lucia has averaged higher in every one of the 40 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Rwanda | Saint Lucia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Saint Lucia |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Saint Lucia |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Saint Lucia |
| 1300s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Saint Lucia |
| 1400s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Saint Lucia |
| 1500s | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | Saint Lucia |
| 1600s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | Saint Lucia |
| 1700s | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | Saint Lucia |
| 1710s | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | Saint Lucia |
| 1720s | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.1% | Saint Lucia |
| 1730s | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.1% | Saint Lucia |
| 1740s | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.2% | Saint Lucia |
| 1750s | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.2% | Saint Lucia |
| 1760s | 0.3% | 0.6% | 0.3% | Saint Lucia |
| 1770s | 0.3% | 0.7% | 0.4% | Saint Lucia |
| 1780s | 0.4% | 0.9% | 0.5% | Saint Lucia |
| 1790s | 0.4% | 1.0% | 0.6% | Saint Lucia |
| 1800s | 0.5% | 1.2% | 0.8% | Saint Lucia |
| 1810s | 0.5% | 1.5% | 1.0% | Saint Lucia |
| 1820s | 0.5% | 1.8% | 1.2% | Saint Lucia |
| 1830s | 0.6% | 2.2% | 1.6% | Saint Lucia |
| 1840s | 0.7% | 2.6% | 1.9% | Saint Lucia |
| 1850s | 0.7% | 3.1% | 2.4% | Saint Lucia |
| 1860s | 0.8% | 3.7% | 2.9% | Saint Lucia |
| 1870s | 0.9% | 4.5% | 3.6% | Saint Lucia |
| 1880s | 0.9% | 5.4% | 4.4% | Saint Lucia |
| 1890s | 1.0% | 6.4% | 5.4% | Saint Lucia |
| 1900s | 1.1% | 7.7% | 6.6% | Saint Lucia |
| 1910s | 1.2% | 9.3% | 8.0% | Saint Lucia |
| 1920s | 1.4% | 11.1% | 9.8% | Saint Lucia |
| 1930s | 1.5% | 13.3% | 11.8% | Saint Lucia |
| 1940s | 1.6% | 16.0% | 14.4% | Saint Lucia |
| 1950s | 2.2% | 19.5% | 17.3% | Saint Lucia |
| 1960s | 2.9% | 21.0% | 18.1% | Saint Lucia |
| 1970s | 4.0% | 24.0% | 19.9% | Saint Lucia |
| 1980s | 5.0% | 28.0% | 23.0% | Saint Lucia |
| 1990s | 8.9% | 29.1% | 20.2% | Saint Lucia |
| 2000s | 16.8% | 23.9% | 7.1% | Saint Lucia |
| 2010s | 18.7% | 20.4% | 1.6% | Saint Lucia |
| 2020s | 28.0% | 28.3% | 0.3% | Saint Lucia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Rwanda or Saint Lucia?
- Rwanda, at 30.9% against 29.1% in Saint Lucia as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Rwanda and Saint Lucia?
- 1.8%, with Rwanda ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Rwanda and Saint Lucia?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Rwanda and Saint Lucia rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Rwanda ranks 212th and Saint Lucia ranks 215th 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.