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👥 Rural population

Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices.

📅 2025📏 count215 entries
Every dot is one country, placed by its value (count); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.
1
🇮🇳India
941,424,277
2
🇨🇳China
473,414,440
3
🇵🇰Pakistan
154,342,491
4
🇧🇩Bangladesh
117,289,303
5
🇮🇩Indonesia
116,023,090
6
🇪🇹Ethiopia
102,810,152
7
🇳🇬Nigeria
86,043,446
8
🇺🇸United States
67,700,152
9
🇪🇬Egypt
67,581,869
10
🇻🇳Vietnam
62,147,904
11
🇨🇩DR Congo
61,929,724
12
🇵🇭Philippines
51,651,030
13
🇹🇿Tanzania
44,526,214
14
🇰🇪Kenya
39,000,058
15
🇲🇲Myanmar
38,075,295
16
🇷🇺Russia
35,518,596
17
🇺🇬Uganda
34,972,582
18
🇸🇩Sudan
33,614,005
19
🇦🇫Afghanistan
32,470,876
20
🇹🇭Thailand
26,643,063
21
🇲🇽Mexico
26,335,423
22
🇾🇪Yemen
26,303,479
23
🇧🇷Brazil
25,160,173
24
🇿🇦South Africa
23,428,558
25
🇳🇪Niger
22,788,189
26
🇲🇿Mozambique
22,373,901
27
🇲🇬Madagascar
21,968,436
28
🇮🇷Iran
20,908,435
29
🇲🇼Malawi
18,307,197
30
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
18,149,751
31
🇮🇹Italy
17,862,719
32
🇱🇰Sri Lanka
17,306,869
33
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
17,111,577
34
🇲🇱Mali
17,081,597
35
🇹🇩Chad
15,213,849
36
🇩🇪Germany
14,913,022
37
🇨🇮Ivory Coast
14,867,742
38
🇵🇱Poland
14,543,253
39
🇫🇷France
14,537,811
40
🇬🇭Ghana
14,402,760
41
🇲🇦Morocco
14,170,247
42
🇮🇶Iraq
14,134,598
43
🇨🇲Cameroon
13,245,748
44
🇺🇦Ukraine
11,851,791
45
🇿🇲Zambia
11,851,647
46
🇬🇧United Kingdom
11,587,924
47
🇩🇿Algeria
11,470,458
48
🇨🇴Colombia
11,335,428
49
🇦🇴Angola
11,141,406
50
🇧🇮Burundi
10,693,640

Highlights

As of 2025, India ranks first with 941,424,277, followed by China (473,414,440) and Pakistan (154,342,491).

India is 2 times higher than China, the runner-up.

Across 215 countries and territories, values run from 941,424,277 (India) to 0 (Sint Maarten), with a median of 1,661,545.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Asia, 3 from Africa and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Rural population, 2025. Unit: count.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Rural population · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026