Sri Lanka vs Tonga: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?

Sri Lanka

20.5%

in 2025

Tonga

21.2%

in 2025

Sri Lanka rank

230th

Tonga rank

229th

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

Tonga currently reports 21.2% against 20.5% in Sri Lanka, a difference of 0.7%.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Sri Lanka ahead.

Sri Lanka ranks 230th and Tonga ranks 229th 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.