Share of rural population by size of closest city in Africa 2019
As of 2019, most rural inhabitants in Africa resided close to small and mid-sized towns. The nearest city to almost 70 percent of the rural population had between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants. Smaller shares of rural households, on the other hand, lived closer to larger urban areas. As of the same year, roughly half of the rural residents lived within 14 kilometers from a city.
