World Rural Population Map

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Country	Year1970	Year1980	Year1990	Year2000	Year2011
Afghanistan	88.969	84.325	81.843	79.417	76.453
Albania	68.260	66.238	63.572	58.259	46.615
Algeria	60.500	56.458	47.915	39.213	27.135
American Samoa	29.616	25.670	19.052	11.234	6.796
Andorra	19.845	7.936	5.288	7.605	12.717
Angola	85.043	75.702	62.856	51.013	40.857
Anguilla	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Antarctica	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Antigua and Barbuda	66.181	65.382	64.574	67.873	70.125
Argentina	21.120	17.113	13.016	9.875	7.505
Armenia	40.136	33.950	32.579	35.334	35.885
Aruba	49.376	49.528	49.681	53.297	53.129
Ashmore and Cartier Islands	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Australia	14.735	14.240	14.600	12.835	10.808
Austria	34.742	34.609	34.235	34.200	32.333
Azerbaijan	49.992	47.223	46.251	48.614	46.355
Bahrain	16.225	13.899	11.860	11.628	11.313
Baker Island	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Bangladesh	92.407	85.149	80.189	76.410	71.610
Barbados	62.461	60.418	67.281	61.653	55.600
Belarus	55.990	43.502	34.019	30.027	24.978
Belgium	6.157	4.619	3.623	2.882	2.515
Belize	49.037	50.626	52.535	52.337	55.224
Benin	83.309	72.661	65.515	61.667	55.091
Bermuda	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Bhutan	93.911	89.868	83.612	74.582	64.433
Bolivia	60.224	54.549	44.423	38.166	33.189
Bosnia and Herzegovina	72.799	64.457	60.751	56.979	51.727
Botswana	92.166	83.521	58.067	46.781	38.385
Bouvet Island	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Brazil	44.091	34.532	26.078	18.808	15.397
British Indian Ocean Territory	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
British Thematic Maps	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Brunei	38.325	40.110	34.167	28.836	24.039
Bulgaria	47.700	37.900	33.623	31.101	26.918
Burkina Faso	94.254	91.195	86.185	82.156	73.491
Burma	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Burundi	97.618	95.661	93.729	91.754	89.072
Cambodia	84.030	91.028	84.454	81.414	79.997
Cameroon	79.700	68.079	60.343	54.458	47.915
Canada	24.346	24.337	23.418	20.522	19.338
Cape Verde	80.441	76.482	55.880	46.565	37.421
Cayman Islands	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Central African Republic	72.672	66.126	63.175	62.361	60.899
Chad	88.432	81.213	79.189	78.466	78.171
Chile	24.773	18.757	16.729	14.054	10.854
China	82.600	80.642	73.558	64.123	49.499
Christmas Island	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Clipperton Island	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Colombia	45.180	37.879	31.724	27.925	24.707
Comoros	80.610	76.785	72.131	71.920	71.931
Congo	60.871	52.143	45.676	41.305	36.351
Cook Islands	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Coral Sea Islands	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Costa Rica	61.173	56.901	49.317	40.962	35.356
Cote D'Ivoire	71.837	63.171	60.655	56.459	48.720
Croatia	59.804	49.939	45.961	44.413	42.176
Cuba	39.734	31.894	26.636	24.400	24.807
Cyprus	59.239	41.386	33.224	31.352	29.491
Czech Republic	35.598	24.833	24.780	26.012	26.558
Democratic Republic of the Congo	69.700	71.281	72.257	70.697	65.721
Denmark	20.263	16.277	15.157	14.900	13.069
Djibouti	38.223	27.904	24.350	23.468	22.920
Dominica	53.109	36.589	32.284	32.822	32.821
Dominican Republic	59.791	48.719	44.774	38.254	30.360
Ecuador	60.722	53.039	44.910	39.701	32.577
Egypt	57.791	56.142	56.522	57.203	56.461
Egypt-Sudan (Disputed)	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
El Salvador	60.598	55.942	50.767	41.088	35.237
Equatorial Guinea	73.046	72.128	65.255	61.194	60.488
Eritrea	87.407	85.636	84.200	82.376	78.637
Estonia	35.053	30.289	28.872	30.599	30.482
Ethiopia	91.412	89.590	87.379	85.261	82.982
Europa Island	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Faroe Islands	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Federated States of Micronesia	75.192	73.555	74.182	77.670	77.387
Fiji	65.242	62.231	58.389	52.092	47.768
Finland	36.296	28.273	20.633	17.817	16.312
France	28.945	26.718	25.944	23.105	14.257
French Guiana	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
French Polynesia	44.748	42.603	44.136	47.619	48.565
French Southern and Antarctic Lands	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Gabon	68.000	45.318	30.857	19.892	13.852
Georgia	51.994	47.503	44.962	47.362	47.139
Germany	27.726	27.156	26.882	26.933	26.056
Ghana	71.028	68.833	63.559	56.046	48.132
Gibraltar	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Glorioso Islands	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Greece	47.496	42.266	41.157	40.264	38.537
Greenland	27.256	23.879	20.302	18.400	15.341
Grenada	67.788	67.079	66.572	64.129	60.847
Guadeloupe	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Guam	38.080	6.247	9.204	6.897	6.793
Guatemala	64.455	62.599	58.883	54.873	50.218
Guernsey	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Guinea	84.023	76.383	71.974	68.977	64.544
Guinea-Bissau	84.868	82.395	71.869	64.149	56.103
Guyana	70.575	69.512	70.417	71.306	71.600
Haiti	80.238	79.459	71.490	64.400	46.687
Heard Island and McDonald Islands	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Honduras	71.098	65.130	59.540	54.542	47.849
Hong Kong	12.271	8.522	0.483	0.000	0.000
Howland Island	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Hungary	39.888	35.809	34.162	35.425	30.564
Iceland	15.100	11.740	9.250	7.599	6.271
India	80.240	76.902	74.453	72.333	68.705
Indonesia	82.929	77.896	69.416	57.998	49.314
Iran	58.788	50.307	43.670	35.958	30.918
Iraq	43.846	34.479	30.294	32.170	33.496
Ireland	48.278	44.667	43.094	40.854	37.795
Isle of Man	44.169	48.216	48.254	48.177	49.448
Israel	15.805	11.417	9.641	8.797	8.116
Israel-Palestine Disputed(Gaza Strip)	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Israel-Palestine Disputed(West Bank)	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Italy	35.728	33.360	33.274	32.778	31.600
Jamaica	58.676	53.261	50.556	48.186	47.926
Jan Mayen	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Japan	28.123	23.825	22.661	21.351	8.865
Jarvis Island	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Jersey	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Johnston Atoll	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Jordan	44.029	40.061	27.771	20.192	17.288
Juan De Nova Island	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Kazakhstan	49.764	45.858	43.734	44.271	46.363
Kenya	89.705	84.417	83.252	80.108	76.016
Kingman Reef	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Kiribati	75.912	67.716	65.013	57.042	56.063
Kosovo	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Kuwait	14.339	5.219	2.026	1.890	1.745
Kyrgyzstan	62.534	61.373	62.223	64.702	64.610
Laos	90.375	87.623	84.563	78.023	65.778
Latvia	39.287	32.905	30.750	31.933	32.286
Lebanon	40.525	26.328	16.880	14.000	12.752
Lesotho	91.392	88.550	86.033	80.028	72.426
Liberia	73.975	64.833	59.065	55.669	51.818
Libya	50.329	29.906	24.277	23.662	22.265
Liechtenstein	81.547	81.726	83.072	84.870	85.586
Lithuania	50.445	38.842	32.417	33.014	32.885
Luxembourg	25.626	19.958	19.053	16.248	14.587
Macau	2.968	1.481	0.237	0.000	0.000
Madagascar	85.900	81.476	76.434	72.879	67.432
Malawi	93.947	90.950	88.440	85.390	84.304
Malaysia	66.546	57.956	50.206	38.023	27.316
Maldives	88.107	77.750	74.160	72.294	58.886
Mali	85.670	81.516	76.678	71.922	65.074
Malta	10.301	10.215	9.619	7.632	5.177
Marshall Islands	46.508	41.702	34.946	31.639	28.161
Martinique	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Mauritania	85.436	72.629	60.329	60.011	58.490
Mauritius	57.968	57.649	56.100	57.330	58.203
Mayotte	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Mexico	40.979	33.661	28.581	25.278	21.894
Midway Islands	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Moldova	67.932	59.613	53.238	55.411	52.344
Monaco	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Mongolia	54.948	47.917	42.967	42.867	31.542
Montenegro	73.147	63.187	51.963	41.456	36.711
Montserrat	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Morocco	65.523	58.790	51.609	46.665	42.959
Mozambique	94.220	86.889	78.904	70.902	68.784
Namibia	77.708	74.934	72.344	67.627	61.609
Nauru	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Navassa Island	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Nepal	96.044	93.909	91.146	86.569	83.004
Netherlands	38.337	35.255	31.316	23.201	16.868
Netherlands Antilles	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
New Caledonia	48.768	42.574	40.463	38.220	38.245
New Zealand	18.894	16.572	15.258	14.323	13.760
Nicaragua	52.970	50.062	47.663	45.263	42.444
Niger	91.206	86.557	84.632	83.814	82.132
Nigeria	77.294	71.418	64.718	57.649	50.385
Niue	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Norfolk Island	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
North Korea	45.800	43.100	41.616	40.588	39.658
Northern Mariana Islands	29.938	13.216	10.269	9.838	8.543
Norway	34.604	29.455	28.044	23.919	20.626
Oman	70.335	52.438	33.898	28.431	26.560
Other	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Pakistan	75.183	71.934	69.424	66.862	63.784
Palau	40.285	37.458	30.407	30.037	15.885
Palmyra Atoll	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Panama	52.360	49.554	46.134	34.213	24.803
Papua New Guinea	90.204	86.953	85.006	86.796	87.498
Paracel Islands	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Paraguay	62.935	58.312	51.306	44.669	38.095
Peru	42.594	35.426	31.099	26.958	22.756
Philippines	67.021	62.519	51.410	52.010	51.114
Pitcairn Islands	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Poland	47.875	41.914	38.730	38.284	39.105
Portugal	61.196	57.215	52.085	45.601	38.958
Puerto Rico	41.674	33.087	27.829	5.353	1.134
Qatar	11.618	10.637	7.214	3.689	1.227
Reunion	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Romania	59.681	53.930	46.783	46.996	47.179
Russia	37.529	30.249	26.606	26.650	26.176
Rwanda	96.808	95.279	94.584	86.228	80.881
Saint Helena	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Saint Lucia	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Samoa	79.647	78.827	78.800	78.023	80.115
San Marino	40.200	18.769	9.600	6.560	5.885
Sao Tome and Principe	70.482	66.518	56.352	46.576	37.350
Saudi Arabia	51.331	34.140	23.417	20.152	17.710
Senegal	70.000	64.231	61.100	59.655	57.440
Serbia	60.256	53.854	49.607	47.019	43.621
Seychelles	60.932	50.634	50.732	49.600	46.376
Sierra Leone	76.600	70.895	66.968	64.173	60.744
Singapore	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Slovakia	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Slovenia	62.996	51.955	49.620	49.248	50.071
Solomon Islands	91.083	89.424	86.323	84.189	79.540
Somalia	77.322	73.237	70.342	66.753	62.240
South Africa	52.191	51.575	47.963	43.109	38.013
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
South Korea	59.296	43.280	26.156	20.379	16.799
South Sudan	91.367	91.481	86.724	83.496	81.946
Spain	33.962	27.211	24.649	23.738	22.571
Spratly Islands	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Sri Lanka	80.486	81.221	82.801	84.291	84.874
Sudan	83.477	80.041	71.390	67.505	66.765
Suriname	54.052	45.000	39.974	35.150	30.277
Svalbard	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Eswatini(Swaziland)	90.295	82.154	77.092	77.362	78.719
Sweden	18.966	16.913	16.900	15.974	14.794
Switzerland	42.632	42.916	26.816	26.678	26.290
Syria	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Taiwan	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Tajikistan	63.124	65.711	68.342	73.513	73.446
Tanzania	92.148	85.445	81.116	77.691	73.258
Thailand	79.111	73.209	70.576	68.857	65.890
The Bahamas	33.275	26.898	20.162	17.965	15.744
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	52.921	46.531	42.211	40.639	40.684
The Gambia	80.504	71.586	61.688	51.180	42.792
Timor-Leste	87.114	83.517	79.158	75.737	71.655
Togo	78.720	75.337	71.411	67.093	61.980
Tokelau	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Tonga	79.813	78.846	77.296	76.988	76.534
Trinidad and Tobago	88.124	89.137	91.466	89.167	86.288
Tromelin Island	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Tunisia	56.518	49.431	42.054	36.568	33.686
Turkey	61.766	56.220	40.797	35.259	28.591
Turkmenistan	52.220	52.922	54.925	54.087	51.258
Turks and Caicas Islands	48.894	44.741	25.657	15.450	6.334
Tuvalu	77.919	70.178	59.339	53.982	49.438
Uganda	93.336	92.466	88.924	87.918	84.421
Ukraine	45.169	38.307	33.243	32.855	31.116
United Arab Emirates	22.299	19.290	20.949	19.764	15.668
United Kingdom	22.883	21.519	21.860	21.349	20.364
United States of America	26.398	26.262	24.700	20.911	17.616
Uruguay	17.632	14.606	11.027	8.675	7.456
Uzbekistan	63.286	59.218	59.828	62.571	63.752
Vanuatu	87.675	85.260	81.285	78.327	75.098
Vatican City	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Venezuela	28.148	20.815	15.716	10.111	6.495
Vietnam	81.700	80.753	79.745	75.626	68.964
Thematic Maps	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Wake Island	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Wallis and Futuna	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Western Sahara	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
Yemen	86.700	83.466	79.069	73.733	67.675
Zambia	69.649	60.185	60.593	65.198	60.835
Zimbabwe	82.638	77.629	71.012	66.242	61.379