FACTOID # 7: South America is unusual in that it is both highly urbanized and poor.
 
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People Statistics > Rural population (per capita) (most recent) by country

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