Sweden vs Turkey: Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
Sweden
89.1%
in 2025
Turkey
89.5%
in 2025
Sweden rank
43rd
Turkey rank
40th
Do more people live in urban or rural areas? over time
- Sweden
- Turkey
How they compare
Turkey currently reports 89.5% against 89.1% in Sweden, a difference of 0.4%.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Turkey ahead.
Sweden ranks 43rd and Turkey ranks 40th of 238 countries.
Across the 40 decades both report, Sweden averaged higher in 32 and Turkey in 8.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Sweden | Turkey | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000s | 0.0% | 1.9% | 1.9% | Turkey |
| 1100s | 0.0% | 2.0% | 2.0% | Turkey |
| 1200s | 0.0% | 2.0% | 2.0% | Turkey |
| 1300s | 0.1% | 2.1% | 2.0% | Turkey |
| 1400s | 0.3% | 2.2% | 1.9% | Turkey |
| 1500s | 0.9% | 2.3% | 1.4% | Turkey |
| 1600s | 1.4% | 2.4% | 1.0% | Turkey |
| 1700s | 4.0% | 2.5% | 1.5% | Sweden |
| 1710s | 6.5% | 2.8% | 3.7% | Sweden |
| 1720s | 8.9% | 3.1% | 5.9% | Sweden |
| 1730s | 11.4% | 3.4% | 8.1% | Sweden |
| 1740s | 13.9% | 3.7% | 10.2% | Sweden |
| 1750s | 16.4% | 4.0% | 12.3% | Sweden |
| 1760s | 18.8% | 4.4% | 14.4% | Sweden |
| 1770s | 21.3% | 4.8% | 16.5% | Sweden |
| 1780s | 23.8% | 5.3% | 18.5% | Sweden |
| 1790s | 26.2% | 5.8% | 20.4% | Sweden |
| 1800s | 28.7% | 6.4% | 22.4% | Sweden |
| 1810s | 31.2% | 7.0% | 24.2% | Sweden |
| 1820s | 33.6% | 7.6% | 26.0% | Sweden |
| 1830s | 36.1% | 8.3% | 27.8% | Sweden |
| 1840s | 38.6% | 9.1% | 29.4% | Sweden |
| 1850s | 41.1% | 10.0% | 31.0% | Sweden |
| 1860s | 43.5% | 11.0% | 32.6% | Sweden |
| 1870s | 46.0% | 12.0% | 34.0% | Sweden |
| 1880s | 48.5% | 13.2% | 35.3% | Sweden |
| 1890s | 50.9% | 14.4% | 36.5% | Sweden |
| 1900s | 53.4% | 15.8% | 37.6% | Sweden |
| 1910s | 55.9% | 17.3% | 38.6% | Sweden |
| 1920s | 58.4% | 18.9% | 39.4% | Sweden |
| 1930s | 60.8% | 20.7% | 40.1% | Sweden |
| 1940s | 63.3% | 22.7% | 40.6% | Sweden |
| 1950s | 68.1% | 20.0% | 48.1% | Sweden |
| 1960s | 76.6% | 25.6% | 51.0% | Sweden |
| 1970s | 82.4% | 34.8% | 47.6% | Sweden |
| 1980s | 83.1% | 45.0% | 38.2% | Sweden |
| 1990s | 83.8% | 54.6% | 29.1% | Sweden |
| 2000s | 84.4% | 63.1% | 21.3% | Sweden |
| 2010s | 86.4% | 81.6% | 4.8% | Sweden |
| 2020s | 88.5% | 89.2% | 0.7% | Turkey |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher do more people live in urban or rural areas?, Sweden or Turkey?
- Turkey, at 89.5% against 89.1% in Sweden as of 2025.
- What is the difference in do more people live in urban or rural areas? between Sweden and Turkey?
- 0.4%, with Turkey ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Sweden and Turkey?
- 108 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2025.
- How do Sweden and Turkey rank globally for do more people live in urban or rural areas??
- Sweden ranks 43rd and Turkey ranks 40th 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 modelled historical data.