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Annex 9: Rural Population, as Percentage of Total Population
Area Name 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2016
African Group 72.1 70.1 68.1 65.4 62.4 58.8
Benin 65.5 63.2 61.7 60.0 58.1 55.6
Burkina Faso 86.2 84.9 82.2 78.5 74.3 69.3
Cameroon 60.3 57.4 54.5 51.5 48.5 45.1
Chad 79.2 78.5 78.4 78.2 78.0 77.4
Côte d'Ivoire 60.7 58.8 56.5 53.2 49.4 45.1
Gabon 30.9 24.6 19.9 16.6 14.3 12.6
Gambia 61.7 56.6 52.1 47.7 43.7 39.8
Guinea 72.0 70.5 69.0 67.2 65.1 62.3
Guinea-Bissau 71.9 67.4 63.3 59.1 54.8 49.9
Mali 76.7 74.5 71.6 67.9 64.0 59.3
Mozambique 75.0 72.5 70.9 70.0 69.0 67.5
Niger 84.6 84.2 83.8 83.3 82.4 81.0
Nigeria 70.3 67.8 65.2 60.9 56.5 51.4
Senegal 61.1 60.4 59.7 58.9 57.8 55.9
Sierra Leone 66.7 65.6 64.4 63.2 61.8 59.7
Togo 71.4 69.3 67.1 64.8 62.5 59.5
Uganda 88.9 88.3 87.9 87.0 85.5 83.6
Arab Group 50.6 49.0 47.9 46.5 44.9 43.0
Algeria 47.9 44.0 40.1 36.2 32.5 28.7
Bahrain 11.9 11.6 11.6 11.6 11.5 11.2
Comoros 72.1 71.7 71.9 72.1 72.1 71.6
Djibouti 24.0 23.7 23.5 23.2 23.0 22.6
Egypt 56.5 57.2 57.2 57.0 57.0 56.8
Iraq 30.3 31.2 31.5 31.2 31.0 30.4
Jordan 26.7 21.6 20.2 18.8 17.5 16.1
Kuwait 2.0 2.0 1.9 1.8 1.7 1.6
Lebanon 16.9 15.2 14.0 13.4 12.8 12.1
Libya 24.3 24.0 23.7 23.1 22.4 21.2
Mauritania 58.7 54.7 50.8 46.9 43.3 39.6
Morocco 51.6 48.3 46.7 44.9 42.3 39.3
Oman 33.9 28.3 28.4 27.6 24.8 21.9
Palestine 32.3 29.8 28.0 26.9 25.9 24.5
Qatar 7.2 5.0 3.7 2.6 1.3 0.7
Saudi Arabia 23.4 21.3 20.2 19.0 17.9 16.7
Somalia 70.3 68.6 66.8 64.8 62.7 60.0
Sudan 74.8 70.8 70.7 70.5 70.4 69.5
Syrian Arab Republic 51.1 49.9 48.1 46.2 44.3 41.9
Tunisia 42.1 38.5 36.6 34.9 34.1 33.0
United Arab Emirates 20.9 21.7 19.8 17.7 15.9 14.2
Yemen 79.1 76.2 73.7 71.1 68.3 64.8
Asian Group 64.5 61.8 58.9 56.3 53.5 50.1
Afghanistan 81.7 80.2 78.7 77.1 75.3 72.9
Albania 63.6 61.1 58.3 53.3 47.8 41.6
Azerbaijan 46.3 47.8 48.6 47.6 46.6 45.1
Bangladesh 80.2 78.3 76.4 73.2 69.5 65.0
Brunei Darussalam 34.2 31.4 28.8 26.5 24.5 22.5
Indonesia 69.4 63.9 58.0 54.1 50.1 45.5
Iran (Islamic Republic of) 43.7 39.8 36.0 32.4 29.4 26.1
Kazakhstan 43.7 44.1 44.3 45.3 46.3 46.8
Kyrgyzstan 62.2 63.7 64.7 64.7 64.7 64.1
Malaysia 50.2 44.3 38.0 33.4 29.1 24.6
Maldives 74.2 74.4 72.3 66.3 60.0 53.5
Pakistan 69.4 68.2 66.8 65.3 63.4 60.8
Tajikistan 68.3 71.1 73.5 73.6 73.5 73.1
Turkey 40.8 37.9 35.3 32.2 29.3 26.1
Turkmenistan 54.9 55.2 54.1 53.0 51.6 49.6
Uzbekistan 59.8 61.6 62.6 63.3 63.8 63.5
Guyana 70.4 70.9 71.3 71.7 71.8 71.3
Suriname 34.3 33.9 33.6 33.3 33.7 34.0
OIC 62.9 60.7 58.4 56.1 53.6 50.6
World 56.8 55.1 53.3 50.8 48.4 45.6
Source: World Development Indicator