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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
Niger 4,024,591 91.2 5,049,950 86.6 6,562,287 84.6 9,211,004 83.8 13,093,904 82.4
Nigeria 43,386,548 77.3 52,633,708 71.4 61,881,637 64.7 70,837,204 57.6 81,449,371 51.0
Oman 509,120 70.3 605,331 52.4 613,589 33.9 623,360 28.4 751,478 26.8
Indonesia 94,594,529 82.9 113,334,358 77.9 124,000,049 69.4 121,180,266 58.0 120,521,157 50.1
Morocco 10,428,894 65.5 11,639,657 58.8 12,734,507 51.6 13,397,579 46.7 13,708,736 43.3
United Arab Emirates 51,629 22.3 195,760 19.3 378,443 20.9 598,128 19.8 1,347,100 16.0
Uganda 8,816,541 93.3 11,604,279 92.5 15,592,680 88.9 21,342,658 87.9 28,835,431 84.8
Uzbekistan 7,577,229 63.3 9,490,758 59.2 12,270,723 59.8 15,424,002 62.6 18,221,669 63.8
Qatar 12,703 11.6 23,801 10.6 34,376 7.2 21,901 3.7 23,534 1.3
Senegal 2,952,639 70.0 3,576,965 64.2 4,591,121 61.1 5,882,985 59.7 7,478,692 57.7
Saudi Arabia 2,978,721 51.3 3,360,491 34.1 3,794,977 23.4 4,059,537 20.2 4,883,613 17.9
Syrian Arab Republic 3,613,910 56.7 4,772,915 53.3 6,358,876 51.1 7,866,857 48.1 9,544,776 44.3
Somalia 2,664,068 77.3 4,459,919 73.2 4,446,750 70.3 4,929,987 66.8 6,042,940 62.7
Sierra Leone 1,939,415 76.6 2,254,629 70.9 2,707,301 67.0 2,656,606 64.2 3,515,838 61.1
Suriname 201,242 54.1 164,527 45.0 162,600 40.0 164,034 35.2 161,026 30.7
Pakistan 44,511,503 75.2 57,535,904 71.9 77,123,732 69.4 96,168,961 66.9 111,019,872 64.1
Tajikistan 1,842,959 63.1 2,574,322 65.7 3,620,271 68.3 4,547,626 73.5 5,606,085 73.5
Togo 1,665,338 78.7 2,049,798 75.3 2,704,764 71.4 3,263,909 67.1 3,939,178 62.5
Jordan 663,957 44.0 873,730 40.1 880,341 27.8 968,610 20.2 1,059,682 17.5
Tunisia 2,897,678 56.5 3,155,675 49.4 3,429,251 42.1 3,497,181 36.6 3,576,356 33.9
Turkmenistan 1,142,834 52.2 1,514,098 52.9 2,014,649 54.9 2,434,682 54.1 2,601,165 51.6
Yemen, Rep. 5,285,730 86.7 6,599,637 83.5 9,322,432 79.1 12,919,892 73.7 15,537,574 68.3
Source: WDI database
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010