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DEFINITION
Rural population is calculated as the difference between the total population and the urban population. Per capita figures expressed per 1 population.
People Statistics > Rural population (per capita) (most recent) by country
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Rank
Countries
Amount
(top to bottom)
Date
#1 Afghanistan :
819.8
per capita 1989 ...
#2 Iraq :
320
per capita 1999 ...
#3 Hong Kong :
1
per capita 1994 ...
#4 Burundi :
0.9
per capita 2005 ...
#5 Bhutan :
0.889
per capita 2005 ...
#6 Trinidad and Tobago :
0.878
per capita 2005 ...
#7 Uganda :
0.874
per capita 2005 ...
#8 Papua New Guinea :
0.866
per capita 2005 ...
#9 Sri Lanka :
0.849
per capita 2005 ...
#10 Nepal :
0.842
per capita 2005 ...
#11 Ethiopia :
0.84
per capita 2005 ...
#12 Niger :
0.832
per capita 2005 ...
#13 Solomon Islands :
0.83
per capita 2005 ...
#14 Malawi :
0.828
per capita 2005 ...
#15 Burkina Faso :
0.817
per capita 2005 ...
#16 Lesotho :
0.813
per capita 2005 ...
#17 Rwanda :
0.807
per capita 2005 ...
#18 Eritrea :
0.806
per capita 2005 ...
#19 Cambodia :
0.803
per capita 2005 ...
#20 Laos :
0.794
per capita 2005 ...
#21 Kenya :
0.793
per capita 2005 ...
#22 Micronesia, Federated States of :
0.777
per capita 2005 ...
#23 Samoa :
0.776
per capita 2005 ...
#24 Vanuatu :
0.765
per capita 2005 ...
#25 Tonga :
0.76
per capita 2005 ...
#26 Swaziland :
0.759
per capita 2005 ...
#27 Tanzania :
0.758
per capita 2005 ...
#28 Tajikistan :
0.753
per capita 2005 ...
#29 Bangladesh :
0.749
per capita 2005 ...
#30 Chad :
0.747
per capita 2005 ...
#31 Vietnam :
0.736
per capita 2005 ...
#32 East Timor :
0.735
per capita 2005 ...
#33 Madagascar :
0.732
per capita 2005 ...
#34 Yemen :
0.727
per capita 2005 ...
#35 Saint Lucia :
0.724
per capita 2005 ...
#36 Guyana :
0.718
per capita 2005 ...
#37 India :
0.713
per capita 2005 ...
#38 Maldives :
0.704
per capita 2005 ...
#39 Guinea-Bissau :
0.704
per capita 2005 ...
#40 Mali :
0.695
per capita 2005 ...
#41 Burma :
0.694
per capita 2005 ...
#42 Grenada :
0.694
per capita 2005 ...
#43 Congo, Democratic Republic of the :
0.679
per capita 2005 ...
#44 Saint Kitts and Nevis :
0.678
per capita 2005 ...
#45 Thailand :
0.677
per capita 2005 ...
#46 Guinea :
0.67
per capita 2005 ...
#47 Mozambique :
0.655
per capita 2005 ...
#48 Pakistan :
0.651
per capita 2005 ...
#49 Zambia :
0.65
per capita 2005 ...
#50 Namibia :
0.649
per capita 2005 ...
#51 Somalia :
0.648
per capita 2005 ...
#52 Kyrgyzstan :
0.642
per capita 2005 ...
#53 Zimbabwe :
0.641
per capita 2005 ...
#54 Uzbekistan :
0.633
per capita 2005 ...
#55 Comoros :
0.63
per capita 2005 ...
#56 Central African Republic :
0.62
per capita 2005 ...
#57 Haiti :
0.612
per capita 2005 ...
#58 Equatorial Guinea :
0.611
per capita 2005 ...
#59 Antigua and Barbuda :
0.609
per capita 2005 ...
#60 Togo :
0.599
per capita 2005 ...
#61 Benin :
0.599
per capita 2005 ...
#62 China :
0.596
per capita 2005 ...
#63 Mauritania :
0.596
per capita 2005 ...
#64 Sierra Leone :
0.593
per capita 2005 ...
#65 Sudan :
0.592
per capita 2005 ...
#66 Senegal :
0.584
per capita 2005 ...
#67 Mauritius :
0.576
per capita 2005 ...
#68 Egypt :
0.572
per capita 2005 ...
#69 Côte d'Ivoire :
0.55
per capita 2005 ...
#70 Albania :
0.546
per capita 2005 ...
#71 Bosnia and Herzegovina :
0.543
per capita 2005 ...
#72 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
0.541
per capita 2005 ...
#73 Turkmenistan :
0.538
per capita 2005 ...
#74 Honduras :
0.535
per capita 2005 ...
#75 Moldova :
0.533
per capita 2005 ...
#76 Guatemala :
0.528
per capita 2005 ...
#77 Kiribati :
0.526
per capita 2005 ...
#78 Ghana :
0.522
per capita 2005 ...
#79 Indonesia :
0.519
per capita 2005 ...
#80 Nigeria :
0.518
per capita 2005 ...
#81 Belize :
0.517
per capita 2005 ...
#82 Syria :
0.494
per capita 2005 ...
#83 Fiji :
0.492
per capita 2005 ...
#84 Slovenia :
0.49
per capita 2005 ...
#85 Azerbaijan :
0.485
per capita 2005 ...
#86 French Polynesia :
0.483
per capita 2005 ...
#87 Man, Isle of :
0.482
per capita 2005 ...
#88 Georgia :
0.478
per capita 2005 ...
#89 Serbia and Montenegro :
0.478
per capita 2005 ...
#90 Barbados :
0.473
per capita 2005 ...
#91 Seychelles :
0.471
per capita 2005 ...
#92 Jamaica :
0.469
per capita 2005 ...
#93 Angola :
0.467
per capita 2005 ...
#94 Romania :
0.463
per capita 2005 ...
#95 Gambia, The :
0.461
per capita 2005 ...
#96 Cameroon :
0.454
per capita 2005 ...
#97 Slovakia :
0.438
per capita 2005 ...
#98 Croatia :
0.435
per capita 2005 ...
#99 Mongolia :
0.433
per capita 2005 ...
#100 Kazakhstan :
0.427
per capita 2005 ...
#101 Cape Verde :
0.427
per capita 2005 ...
#102 Botswana :
0.426
per capita 2005 ...
#103 Portugal :
0.424
per capita 2005 ...
#104 São Tomé and Príncipe :
0.42
per capita 2005 ...
#105 Liberia :
0.419
per capita 2005 ...
#106 Paraguay :
0.415
per capita 2005 ...
#107 Morocco :
0.413
per capita 2005 ...
#108 Greece :
0.41
per capita 2005 ...
#109 Nicaragua :
0.41
per capita 2005 ...
#110 South Africa :
0.407
per capita 2005 ...
#111 El Salvador :
0.402
per capita 2005 ...
#112 Congo, Republic of the :
0.398
per capita 2005 ...
#113 Ireland :
0.395
per capita 2005 ...
#114 Finland :
0.389
per capita 2005 ...
#115 Korea, North :
0.384
per capita 2005 ...
#116 Costa Rica :
0.383
per capita 2005 ...
#117 Poland :
0.379
per capita 2005 ...
#118 Philippines :
0.373
per capita 2005 ...
#119 Ecuador :
0.372
per capita 2005 ...
#120 Algeria :
0.367
per capita 2005 ...
#121 New Caledonia :
0.363
per capita 2005 ...
#122 Armenia :
0.359
per capita 2005 ...
#123 Bolivia :
0.358
per capita 2005 ...
#124 Tunisia :
0.347
per capita 2005 ...
#125 Japan :
0.342
per capita 2005 ...
#126 Austria :
0.34
per capita 2005 ...
#127 Hungary :
0.337
per capita 2005 ...
#128 Lithuania :
0.334
per capita 2005 ...
#129 Marshall Islands :
0.333
per capita 2005 ...
#130 Dominican Republic :
0.332
per capita 2005 ...
#131 Iran :
0.331
per capita 2005 ...
#132 Malaysia :
0.327
per capita 2005 ...
#133 Turkey :
0.327
per capita 2005 ...
#134 Italy :
0.324
per capita 2005 ...
#135 Latvia :
0.322
per capita 2005 ...
#136 Ukraine :
0.322
per capita 2005 ...
#137 Macedonia, Republic of :
0.311
per capita 2005 ...
#138 Estonia :
0.309
per capita 2005 ...
#139 Cyprus :
0.307
per capita 2005 ...
#140 Bulgaria :
0.3
per capita 2005 ...
#141 Netherlands Antilles :
0.296
per capita 2005 ...
#142 Panama :
0.292
per capita 2005 ...
#143 Oman :
0.285
per capita 2005 ...
#144 Belarus :
0.278
per capita 2005 ...
#145 Peru :
0.274
per capita 2005 ...
#146 Colombia :
0.273
per capita 2005 ...
#147 Dominica :
0.271
per capita 2005 ...
#148 Russia :
0.27
per capita 2005 ...
#149 Brunei :
0.265
per capita 2005 ...
#150 Czech Republic :
0.265
per capita 2005 ...
#151 Suriname :
0.261
per capita 2005 ...
#152 Germany :
0.248
per capita 2005 ...
#153 Switzerland :
0.248
per capita 2005 ...
#154 Cuba :
0.245
per capita 2005 ...
#155 Mexico :
0.24
per capita 2005 ...
#156 France :
0.233
per capita 2005 ...
#157 United Arab Emirates :
0.233
per capita 2005 ...
#158 Spain :
0.233
per capita 2005 ...
#159 Norway :
0.226
per capita 2005 ...
#160 Macau :
0.2
per capita 1999 ...
#161 Canada :
0.199
per capita 2005 ...
#162 Netherlands :
0.198
per capita 2005 ...
#163 United States :
0.192
per capita 2005 ...
#164 Korea, South :
0.192
per capita 2005 ...
#165 Saudi Arabia :
0.19
per capita 2005 ...
#166 Jordan :
0.177
per capita 2005 ...
#167 Luxembourg :
0.172
per capita 2005 ...
#168 Greenland :
0.171
per capita 2005 ...
#169 Gabon :
0.164
per capita 2005 ...
#170 Brazil :
0.158
per capita 2005 ...
#171 Sweden :
0.158
per capita 2005 ...
#172 Libya :
0.152
per capita 2005 ...
#173 Denmark :
0.144
per capita 2005 ...
#174 Djibouti :
0.139
per capita 2005 ...
#175 New Zealand :
0.138
per capita 2005 ...
#176 Lebanon :
0.134
per capita 2005 ...
#177 Chile :
0.124
per capita 2005 ...
#178 Australia :
0.118
per capita 2005 ...
#179 United Kingdom :
0.103
per capita 2005 ...
#180 Argentina :
0.099
per capita 2005 ...
#181 Bahamas, The :
0.096
per capita 2005 ...
#182 Israel :
0.084
per capita 2005 ...
#183 Uruguay :
0.08
per capita 2005 ...
#184 Iceland :
0.072
per capita 2005 ...
#185 Venezuela :
0.066
per capita 2005 ...
#186 Guam :
0.06
per capita 2005 ...
#187 Virgin Islands :
0.058
per capita 2005 ...
#188 Malta :
0.047
per capita 2005 ...
#189 Qatar :
0.046
per capita 2005 ...
#190 Bahrain :
0.035
per capita 2005 ...
#191 Belgium :
0.028
per capita 2005 ...
#192 Puerto Rico :
0.024
per capita 2005 ...
#193 Kuwait :
0.017
per capita 2005 ...
Weighted average:
6.4
per capita
DEFINITION: Rural population is calculated as the difference between the total population and the urban population. Per capita figures expressed per 1 population.
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