Countries with the highest rural population rates worldwide 2021
Worldwide, Papua New Guinea was the country with the highest rural population in terms of share of the country's population. That year, 86.5 percent of the Asian country's inhabitants lived in rural areas. Burundi followed in second with 86 percent, whereas 85.5 percent of Liechtenstein's population lived in rural areas that year. Over the past decades, the share of the global population living in rural areas decreased.
