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Rural population, male (% of total) by country

Male rural population is the percentage males who live in rural areas to total population.

Countries reporting
192
Highest
45.3%
Trinidad and Tobago
Lowest
0.0%
Macao
Median
21.5%
Years covered
36
1980–2015
Data points
1,928

What the numbers show

Rural population, male (% of total) is currently reported for 192 countries. The highest value is 45.3% in Trinidad and Tobago; the lowest is 0.0% in Macao.

The median across all reporting countries is 21.5%, and the mean is 21.5%.

Over the past decade 33 countries rose and 157 fell. The largest increase was in Armenia (up 8.6%), and the largest decrease in Qatar (down 67.6%).

Rural population, male (% of total): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Trinidad and Tobago 45.3% 2015 up 1.3% flat
2 Papua New Guinea 44.0% 2015 up 0.1% flat
3 Burundi 42.8% 2015 down 3.5% falling
4 Uganda 42.1% 2015 down 3.4% falling
5 Samoa 41.8% 2015 up 2.4% flat
6 Malawi 41.7% 2015 down 0.8% flat
7 Niger 41.0% 2015 down 1.9% flat
8 South Sudan 40.5% 2015 down 1.7% falling
9 Ethiopia 40.4% 2015 down 4.3% falling
10 Micronesia (country) 40.0% 2015 up 1.9% rising
11 Saint Lucia 39.8% 2015 up 5.9% rising
12 Sri Lanka 39.7% 2015 down 1.6% flat
13 Solomon Islands 39.3% 2015 down 6.2% falling
14 Cambodia 38.9% 2015 down 1.2% falling
15 Nepal 38.8% 2015 down 6.9% falling
16 Eswatini 38.7% 2015 up 2.9% flat
17 Chad 38.6% 2015 down 0.3% flat
18 Eritrea 38.5% 2015 down 4.2% falling
19 Tonga 38.3% 2015 up 0.2% flat
20 Afghanistan 37.1% 2015 down 5.5% falling
21 Antigua and Barbuda 37.0% 2015 up 8.2% rising
22 Vanuatu 36.9% 2015 down 4.4% falling
23 Kenya 36.8% 2015 down 5.4% falling
24 Tajikistan 36.7% 2015 down 0.7% rising
25 Lesotho 36.7% 2015 down 4.7% falling
26 Guyana 36.4% 2015 up 0.6% rising
27 Comoros 36.1% 2015 down 0.0% flat
28 Burkina Faso 34.6% 2015 down 10.1% falling
29 India 34.4% 2015 down 5.3% falling
30 Barbados 34.4% 2015 up 2.0% rising
31 East Timor 34.4% 2015 down 8.7% falling
32 Channel Islands 34.4% 2015 down 0.2% rising
33 Tanzania 34.3% 2015 down 8.7% falling
34 Sudan 33.4% 2015 down 1.5% falling
35 Vietnam 33.2% 2015 down 7.6% falling
36 Rwanda 33.1% 2015 down 13.4% falling
37 Mozambique 32.8% 2015 down 2.0% falling
38 Grenada 32.7% 2015 up 2.1% flat
39 Madagascar 32.6% 2015 down 8.5% falling
40 Zimbabwe 32.6% 2015 up 2.4% falling
41 Bangladesh 32.6% 2015 down 12.2% falling
42 Bhutan 32.5% 2015 down 10.9% falling
43 Kyrgyzstan 32.5% 2015 down 0.3% rising
44 Myanmar 32.0% 2015 down 7.5% falling
45 Uzbekistan 31.8% 2015 up 0.5% rising
46 Yemen 31.6% 2015 down 9.5% falling
47 Pakistan 31.3% 2015 down 6.5% falling
48 Guinea 31.1% 2015 down 6.5% falling
49 Laos 30.4% 2015 down 15.1% falling
50 Equatorial Guinea 30.2% 2015 down 1.5% falling
51 Mali 29.9% 2015 down 11.5% falling
52 Somalia 29.9% 2015 down 6.6% falling
53 Mauritius 29.8% 2015 up 2.8% flat
54 Bosnia and Herzegovina 29.6% 2015 down 0.8% falling
55 Sierra Leone 29.3% 2015 down 4.7% falling
56 Central African Republic 29.3% 2015 down 3.1% falling
57 Togo 29.2% 2015 down 7.1% falling
58 Zambia 29.2% 2015 down 6.9% flat
59 Egypt 28.8% 2015 down 0.2% flat
60 Belize 28.4% 2015 up 3.2% rising
61 Kiribati 28.3% 2015 down 2.0% falling
62 Philippines 28.2% 2015 up 3.7% falling
63 Aruba 27.9% 2015 up 3.3% rising
64 Democratic Republic of Congo 27.8% 2015 down 8.4% falling
65 Benin 27.7% 2015 down 6.0% falling
66 Senegal 27.6% 2015 down 4.4% falling
67 Maldives 27.5% 2015 down 18.5% falling
68 Angola 27.2% 2015 down 12.1% falling
69 Moldova 26.5% 2015 up 0.7% flat
70 Nigeria 26.0% 2015 down 14.5% falling
71 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 25.7% 2015 down 6.7% falling
72 Slovenia 25.4% 2015 up 2.8% flat
73 Namibia 25.3% 2015 down 17.1% falling
74 Liberia 24.9% 2015 down 6.5% falling
75 Guinea-Bissau 24.7% 2015 down 14.7% falling
76 Turkmenistan 24.6% 2015 down 5.8% falling
77 Thailand 24.5% 2015 down 21.3% falling
78 Guatemala 24.0% 2015 down 8.0% falling
79 Fiji 23.9% 2015 down 7.8% falling
80 Indonesia 23.5% 2015 down 14.3% falling
81 Honduras 23.4% 2015 down 11.6% falling
82 Kazakhstan 23.3% 2015 up 3.2% rising
83 Ghana 23.2% 2015 down 12.8% falling
84 Seychelles 23.2% 2015 down 4.1% flat
85 Cote d'Ivoire 23.1% 2015 down 14.5% falling
86 China 23.0% 2015 down 22.8% falling
87 Jamaica 23.0% 2015 down 3.6% falling
88 Slovak Republic 22.9% 2015 up 4.8% flat
89 Azerbaijan 22.7% 2015 down 3.6% flat
90 Romania 22.6% 2015 down 3.0% falling
91 French Polynesia 22.6% 2015 up 1.2% rising
92 Georgia 22.5% 2015 down 2.5% flat
93 Cameroon 22.4% 2015 down 9.2% falling
94 Serbia 22.3% 2015 down 1.9% falling
95 North Macedonia 21.7% 2015 up 0.7% falling
96 Albania 21.5% 2015 down 20.2% falling
97 Syria 21.4% 2015 down 9.1% falling
98 Paraguay 21.3% 2015 down 5.6% falling
99 Botswana 21.2% 2015 down 4.7% falling
100 Nicaragua 21.2% 2015 down 7.0% falling
101 Haiti 20.9% 2015 down 26.5% falling
102 Croatia 20.1% 2015 down 5.9% falling
103 Morocco 19.9% 2015 down 10.8% falling
104 Mauritania 19.9% 2015 down 14.5% falling
105 Armenia 19.7% 2015 up 8.6% rising
106 Poland 19.6% 2015 up 2.2% falling
107 Gambia 19.6% 2015 down 15.5% falling
108 North Korea 18.9% 2015 down 2.3% falling
109 Ireland 18.7% 2015 down 7.5% falling
110 Ecuador 18.5% 2015 down 5.6% falling
111 Montenegro 18.2% 2015 down 4.4% falling
112 Portugal 18.0% 2015 down 13.8% falling
113 Sao Tome and Principe 17.7% 2015 down 17.2% falling
114 Panama 17.5% 2015 down 8.4% falling
115 Suriname 17.3% 2015 up 1.8% flat
116 Cyprus 17.1% 2015 up 5.1% falling
117 Austria 17.1% 2015 up 0.2% flat
118 Congo 16.9% 2015 down 11.1% falling
119 Cape Verde 16.7% 2015 down 18.4% falling
120 South Africa 16.5% 2015 down 13.7% falling
121 Bolivia 16.4% 2015 down 11.8% falling
122 Tunisia 16.3% 2015 down 5.7% falling
123 El Salvador 16.2% 2015 down 14.1% falling
124 Estonia 15.9% 2015 up 4.5% rising
125 Lithuania 15.9% 2015 down 1.3% falling
126 Latvia 15.7% 2015 up 1.7% flat
127 Italy 15.4% 2015 down 3.5% falling
128 Iraq 15.3% 2015 down 2.5% falling
129 New Caledonia 15.2% 2015 down 17.4% falling
130 Algeria 14.9% 2015 down 19.0% falling
131 Mongolia 14.5% 2015 down 25.0% falling
132 Switzerland 14.3% 2015 down 1.1% falling
133 Ukraine 14.1% 2015 down 5.9% falling
134 Oman 14.1% 2015 down 5.7% falling
135 Hungary 14.1% 2015 down 14.1% falling
136 Czechia 13.6% 2015 up 3.7% rising
137 Iran 13.4% 2015 down 18.4% falling
138 Türkiye 12.9% 2015 down 17.6% falling
139 Bulgaria 12.9% 2015 down 11.6% falling
140 Germany 12.6% 2015 down 6.6% flat
141 Palestine 12.6% 2015 down 8.1% falling
142 Malaysia 12.5% 2015 down 25.1% falling
143 Colombia 12.4% 2015 down 10.8% falling
144 Russia 12.4% 2015 down 2.1% falling
145 Costa Rica 12.3% 2015 down 31.4% falling
146 Cuba 12.2% 2015 down 3.7% falling
147 Brunei 11.7% 2015 down 14.0% falling
148 Djibouti 11.3% 2015 down 2.3% falling
149 Greece 11.2% 2015 down 14.0% falling
150 Peru 11.2% 2015 down 13.6% falling
151 Belarus 10.9% 2015 down 15.5% falling
152 Dominican Republic 10.7% 2015 down 36.6% falling
153 Libya 10.5% 2015 down 11.0% falling
154 Spain 10.4% 2015 down 9.7% falling
155 France 10.3% 2015 down 10.1% falling
156 Mexico 10.2% 2015 down 11.5% falling
157 Norway 10.2% 2015 down 12.1% falling
158 United Arab Emirates 9.9% 2015 down 16.7% falling
159 Saudi Arabia 9.7% 2015 down 7.5% falling
160 Canada 9.4% 2015 down 8.3% falling
161 United States 9.3% 2015 down 8.1% falling
162 United Kingdom 8.7% 2015 down 12.6% falling
163 Korea 8.6% 2015 down 7.0% falling
164 Bahamas 8.5% 2015 down 3.3% falling
165 Jordan 8.3% 2015 down 14.0% falling
166 Finland 7.9% 2015 down 7.6% falling
167 Brazil 7.6% 2015 down 16.1% falling
168 Sweden 7.6% 2015 down 8.8% falling
169 New Zealand 7.0% 2015 down 1.8% falling
170 Bahrain 6.8% 2015 up 0.2% falling
171 Gabon 6.3% 2015 down 21.9% falling
172 Denmark 6.3% 2015 down 12.4% falling
173 Lebanon 6.1% 2015 down 9.4% falling
174 Venezuela 6.0% 2015 down 3.2% falling
175 Chile 5.6% 2015 down 16.8% falling
176 Australia 5.5% 2015 down 10.6% falling
177 Luxembourg 5.1% 2015 down 24.0% falling
178 Netherlands 4.8% 2015 down 45.2% falling
179 Argentina 4.4% 2015 down 15.3% falling
180 Israel 4.0% 2015 down 7.3% falling
181 Iceland 3.3% 2015 down 12.2% falling
182 Puerto Rico 3.2% 2015 up 7.8% volatile
183 Japan 3.1% 2015 down 53.7% falling
184 Guam 2.9% 2015 down 6.5% falling
185 Uruguay 2.7% 2015 down 30.0% falling
186 Malta 2.3% 2015 down 26.1% falling
187 United States Virgin Islands 1.9% 2015 down 33.3% volatile
188 Belgium 1.1% 2015 down 17.7% falling
189 Kuwait 1.0% 2015 down 6.6% falling
190 Qatar 0.6% 2015 down 67.6% volatile
191 Hong Kong 0.0% 2015 — volatile
191 Macao 0.0% 2015 — volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Rural population, male (% of total)
Unit
% of total
Source
The United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
241 places, 1,928 data points, 1980–2015
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Male rural population is the percentage males who live in rural areas to total population.