Statizoid

Seychelles vs Sierra Leone: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Seychelles
45.5%
in 2025
Sierra Leone
45.9%
in 2025
Seychelles rank
175th
Sierra Leone rank
173rd

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

  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
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How they compare

Sierra Leone currently reports 45.9% against 45.5% in Seychelles, a difference of 0.4%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 76 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Seychelles ahead.

Seychelles ranks 175th and Sierra Leone ranks 173rd 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.