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

Sri Lanka
20.5%
in 2025
Vanuatu
22.3%
in 2025
Sri Lanka rank
230th
Vanuatu rank
227th

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

  • Sri Lanka
  • Vanuatu
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How they compare

Vanuatu currently reports 22.3% against 20.5% in Sri Lanka, a difference of 1.9%.

That makes Vanuatu's figure about 1.1 times Sri Lanka's.

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

Sri Lanka ranks 230th and Vanuatu ranks 227th 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.