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Annex 8b: Rural Population (Percent)
AreaName 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
African Group 71.96 69.90 67.86 65.00 61.95 58.93
Benin 65.52 63.23 61.66 60.02 58.15 56.05
Burkina Faso 86.19 84.87 82.16 78.46 73.90 69.40
Cameroon 60.35 57.42 54.46 51.49 48.57 45.72
Chad 79.10 78.28 77.97 77.78 76.86 75.14
Côte d'Ivoire 60.41 58.02 55.14 51.00 46.61 42.98
Gabon 30.66 24.48 19.81 16.62 14.46 13.04
Gambia 61.74 56.67 52.16 47.55 43.35 39.93
Guinea 71.81 70.29 68.56 66.55 64.34 61.54
Guinea-Bissau 69.21 65.04 61.35 57.49 53.18 49.12
Mali 72.00 69.45 66.54 62.98 59.02 55.51
Mozambique 76.10 72.81 70.95 69.61 68.04 65.71
Niger 82.94 82.47 82.06 81.41 80.43 78.69
Nigeria 70.32 67.79 65.16 60.91 56.62 52.60
Senegal 61.10 60.39 59.66 58.89 57.75 55.67
Sierra Leone 68.63 67.10 65.63 63.77 61.50 58.81
Togo 71.43 69.30 66.96 64.38 61.63 58.94
Uganda 89.70 89.76 89.84 89.09 87.67 86.28
Arab Group 50.38 48.42 47.08 45.67 43.94 43.70
Algeria 48.52 44.63 40.77 36.92 33.40 29.99
Bahrain 11.90 11.53 11.70 11.76 11.34 11.11
Comoros 71.78 69.65 69.38 69.99 70.42 70.01
Djibouti 24.14 23.75 23.53 23.12 23.11 22.98
Egypt 56.46 56.03 55.36 54.57 54.23 52.64
Iraq 30.36 31.44 31.81 31.65 31.06 29.98
Jordan 26.71 21.64 20.20 18.49 17.35 16.53
Kuwait 2.04 1.89 1.87 1.86 1.70 1.52
Lebanon 16.87 15.16 14.00 13.42 12.82 10.55
Libya 23.51 23.37 22.93 22.27 21.56 21.58
Mauritania 58.71 54.76 50.71 46.76 43.55 40.27
Morocco 51.04 47.72 46.28 44.49 41.70 39.32
Oman 33.88 27.83 27.82 27.76 23.64 20.71
Palestine 31.98 29.56 27.86 26.79 25.51 24.12
Qatar 7.14 4.99 3.71 2.51 1.36 0.81
Saudi Arabia 23.19 21.00 18.98 18.98 17.39 15.99
Somalia 70.35 68.57 66.75 64.84 63.10 62.33
Sudan 74.82 70.31 69.81 69.59 69.36 68.64
Syrian Arab Republic 51.07 49.92 48.10 46.30 46.06 50.96
Tunisia 41.55 37.97 36.01 34.72 34.04 33.10
United Arab Emirates 20.87 21.66 19.61 16.42 16.16 15.13
Yemen 77.94 75.00 72.60 69.80 65.87 62.23
Asian Group 65.82 62.24 59.41 56.56 53.62 50.31
Afghanistan 79.41 84.14 82.29 78.56 76.49 72.13
Albania 66.77 66.02 61.66 55.25 51.93 47.02
Azerbaijan 47.79 48.61 47.61 46.57 44.72
Bangladesh 81.25 79.26 77.05 73.30 69.31 65.48
Brunei Darussalam 34.25 31.52 29.04 26.80 24.92 23.16
Indonesia 68.34 63.00 57.28 53.64 49.88 45.93
Iran (Islamic Republic of) 43.82 39.86 35.99 32.46 29.46 26.75
Kazakhstan 43.04 43.14 44.14 45.16 44.49
Kyrgyzstan 63.65 64.70 63.79 63.15 61.78
Malaysia 50.21 44.31 38.02 33.47 29.25 25.56
Maldives 71.69 71.63 70.26 64.60 58.63 53.62
Pakistan 71.67 70.44 69.54 67.23 64.56 60.99
Tajikistan 71.12 73.52 73.57 73.93 74.32
Turkey 40.80 37.88 35.22 32.16 29.22 25.94
Turkmenistan 55.21 54.09 52.95 51.61 49.97
Uzbekistan 62.28 63.36 63.62 63.88 63.24
Guyana 70.94 71.01 71.54 73.54 74.86 75.22
Suriname 34.05 33.20 32.66 33.74 34.16 34.26
OIC 63.55 60.77 58.47 55.99 53.33 50.92
World 57.17 55.34 53.40 50.85 48.27 45.82
Source: FAOSTAT