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TABLE 1.2 RURAL POPULATION
Country
Rural
population
as % of total
population
Rural
population
as % of total
population
Rural
population
as % of total
population
Rural
population
as % of total
population
Rural
population
as % of total
population
Afghanistan 9,800,488 89.0 11,114,398 84.3 9,601,160 81.8 16,356,217 79.4 21,798,444 76.8
Albania 1,460,058 68.3 1,811,461 66.2 2,191,252 63.6 1,925,430 58.3 1,501,925 47.7
Algeria 8,887,967 60.5 10,995,311 56.5 12,572,756 47.9 12,438,148 39.2 10,368,695 28.0
Azerbaijan 2,588,666 50.0 2,910,821 47.2 3,311,109 46.3 3,912,746 48.6 4,219,228 46.6
Bahrain 34,576 16.2 50,023 13.9 58,819 11.9 77,703 11.6 142,447 11.4
Bangladesh 61,274,030 92.4 70,246,597 85.1 86,111,637 80.2 101,154,053 76.4 108,970,535 72.1
Benin 2,422,433 83.3 2,701,553 72.7 3,276,583 65.5 4,285,466 61.7 5,300,952 55.7
Brunei Darussalam 49,715 38.3 77,432 40.1 87,785 34.2 95,678 28.8 97,751 24.4
Burkina Faso 5,301,408 94.3 6,222,089 91.2 7,593,789 86.2 9,536,622 82.2 11,551,559 74.3
Djibouti 61,030 38.2 100,244 27.9 143,646 24.4 169,647 23.5 191,837 23.0
Chad 3,223,268 88.4 3,664,946 81.2 4,712,992 79.2 6,513,581 78.5 9,172,800 78.3
Cote d'Ivoire 3,765,634 71.8 5,221,430 63.2 7,348,842 60.7 9,107,589 56.5 9,382,594 49.4
Gabon 400,632 68.0 329,214 45.3 292,124 30.9 243,782 19.9 220,392 14.2
Gambia, The 360,081 80.5 432,645 71.6 565,562 61.7 628,932 51.2 728,457 43.3
Guinea 3,536,697 84.0 3,433,782 76.4 4,332,916 72.0 6,032,817 69.0 7,072,902 65.0
Guinea-Bissau 579,620 84.9 674,222 82.4 731,184 71.9 816,817 64.1 900,885 56.8
Guyana 508,716 70.6 540,057 69.5 510,554 70.4 530,852 71.3 563,566 71.7
Cameroon 5,396,461 79.7 6,080,899 68.1 7,283,617 60.3 8,673,914 54.5 10,000,331 48.5
Iraq 4,348,638 43.8 4,707,541 34.5 5,306,758 30.3 7,656,832 32.2 10,361,251 33.5
Iran, Islamic Rep. 16,817,239 58.8 19,564,151 50.3 24,613,228 43.7 23,700,296 36.0 23,129,484 31.1
Kazakhstan 6,524,056 49.8 6,832,077 45.9 7,149,634 43.7 6,589,130 44.3 7,551,669 46.3
Kyrgyz Republic 1,850,944 62.5 2,220,107 61.4 2,732,336 62.2 3,169,363 64.7 3,524,573 64.7
Comoros 187,015 80.6 240,796 76.8 297,750 72.1 379,962 71.9 492,023 72.0
Kuwait 107,603 14.3 71,578 5.2 41,731 2.0 36,028 1.9 52,592 1.8
Lebanon 931,023 40.5 685,922 26.3 456,270 16.9 452,953 14.0 558,438 12.9
Libya 1,044,654 50.3 920,583 29.9 1,034,154 24.3 1,224,789 23.7 1,355,332 22.4
Maldives 100,574 88.1 119,981 77.8 160,081 74.2 197,178 72.3 195,436 60.0
Malaysia 7,259,260 66.5 8,017,482 58.0 9,143,063 50.2 8,905,272 38.0 7,915,537 28.0
Mali 4,897,149 85.7 5,490,304 81.5 6,106,687 76.7 7,379,612 71.9 9,191,993 65.7
Mauritania 981,605 85.4 1,114,231 72.6 1,221,157 60.3 1,625,155 60.0 2,121,256 58.8
Egypt, Arab Rep. 21,002,560 57.8 25,225,707 56.1 31,842,581 56.5 37,832,114 57.2 44,210,368 56.6
Mozambique 8,906,970 94.2 10,550,075 86.9 10,705,662 78.9 12,957,779 70.9 16,547,479 69.0
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010