Share of rural population by distance to the closest city in Africa 2019
Around 90 percent of the rural population in Africa lived within 47 kilometers of a city as of 2019. Moreover, roughly half of the rural residents lived within a 14-kilometer distance from a city. In contrast, only less than 1.5 percent of the rural households resided further than 100 kilometers from a city. Urbanization in Africa has increased in recent years. Gabon, Libya, and Djibouti had the highest urbanization rate on the continent in 2020.
