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

Tonga
21.2%
in 2025
Vanuatu
22.3%
in 2025
Tonga rank
229th
Vanuatu rank
227th

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

  • Tonga
  • Vanuatu
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How they compare

Vanuatu currently reports 22.3% against 21.2% in Tonga, a difference of 1.2%.

That makes Vanuatu's figure about 1.1 times Tonga's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Vanuatu ahead.

Tonga ranks 229th 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
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Share of the population living in urban areas, combining UN estimates with modelled historical data.