Worldwide, Papua New Guinea was the country with the highest rural population in terms of share of the country's population. As of 2022, 86.4 percent of the Asian country's inhabitants lived in rural areas. Burundi followed in second with 85.6 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.
Ranking of the 20 countries with the highest rural population rates worldwide in 2022
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