Rural population

Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages.
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Country Rural population Rank Year

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Sources

Data published by
World Bank – World Development Indicators

Data publisher's source
World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects: 2018 Revision.

Link
https://datatopics.worldbank.org/world-development-indicators/

Last update by data publisher
2020-12-16

Variable time span
1960 : 2020