Upper middle income - Rural population

Rural population

The value for Rural population in Upper middle income was 817,513,400 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 1,128,467,000 in 1992 and a minimum value of 810,600,300 in 1961.

Definition: 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.

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

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Year Value
1960 817,430,900
1961 810,600,300
1962 813,780,500
1963 825,923,500
1964 837,289,800
1965 854,534,200
1966 873,991,000
1967 892,345,000
1968 911,276,500
1969 931,428,400
1970 952,178,700
1971 973,070,400
1972 992,415,800
1973 1,009,958,000
1974 1,025,231,000
1975 1,038,460,000
1976 1,050,651,000
1977 1,061,456,000
1978 1,069,020,000
1979 1,073,438,000
1980 1,077,153,000
1981 1,080,630,000
1982 1,085,147,000
1983 1,090,728,000
1984 1,094,995,000
1985 1,099,412,000
1986 1,104,645,000
1987 1,110,598,000
1988 1,116,306,000
1989 1,121,369,000
1990 1,125,707,000
1991 1,127,836,000
1992 1,128,467,000
1993 1,128,155,000
1994 1,127,086,000
1995 1,125,098,000
1996 1,122,519,000
1997 1,119,318,000
1998 1,115,123,000
1999 1,109,699,000
2000 1,102,966,000
2001 1,092,736,000
2002 1,080,175,000
2003 1,066,727,000
2004 1,052,570,000
2005 1,037,910,000
2006 1,023,159,000
2007 1,008,040,000
2008 992,674,400
2009 977,175,400
2010 961,309,200
2011 946,954,900
2012 933,903,700
2013 920,720,500
2014 907,094,000
2015 892,975,400
2016 878,567,300
2017 864,200,000
2018 849,121,700
2019 833,599,500
2020 817,513,400

Rural population (% of total population)

Rural population (% of total population) in Upper middle income was 32.43 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 71.99 in 1960, while its lowest value was 32.43 in 2020.

Definition: 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.

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

See also:

Year Value
1960 71.99
1961 71.16
1962 70.45
1963 69.84
1964 69.22
1965 69.05
1966 68.91
1967 68.73
1968 68.56
1969 68.40
1970 68.25
1971 68.09
1972 67.91
1973 67.66
1974 67.34
1975 66.99
1976 66.65
1977 66.30
1978 65.77
1979 65.04
1980 64.32
1981 63.57
1982 62.83
1983 62.17
1984 61.50
1985 60.82
1986 60.16
1987 59.51
1988 58.87
1989 58.24
1990 57.64
1991 56.97
1992 56.29
1993 55.61
1994 54.91
1995 54.21
1996 53.51
1997 52.79
1998 52.06
1999 51.32
2000 50.56
2001 49.68
2002 48.73
2003 47.77
2004 46.79
2005 45.81
2006 44.84
2007 43.88
2008 42.92
2009 41.96
2010 41.00
2011 40.09
2012 39.20
2013 38.33
2014 37.45
2015 36.58
2016 35.72
2017 34.87
2018 34.04
2019 33.22
2020 32.43

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization