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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
191
Highest
45.3%
Trinidad and Tobago
Lowest
0.0%
Macao
Median
21.4%
Years covered
36
1980–2015
Data points
1,928

What the numbers show

Rural population, male (% of total) is currently reported for 191 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 21.4%, and the mean is 21.4%.

Over the past decade 33 countries rose and 156 fell. The largest increase was in Armenia (up 8.6%), and the largest decrease in Qatar (down 67.6%).

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