Which has higher rural population, IDA total or Vietnam?

IDA total, at 1.17 billion against 62.15 million in Vietnam as of 2025.

What is the difference in rural population between IDA total and Vietnam?

1.11 billion, with IDA total ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for IDA total and Vietnam?

66 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2025.

Where does this data come from?

World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations (UN), published as Rural population. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

IDA total vs Vietnam: Rural population

IDA total

1.17 billion

in 2025

Vietnam

62.15 million

in 2025

IDA total rank

8th

Vietnam rank

10th

Rural population over time

IDA total
Vietnam

How they compare

IDA total currently reports 1.17 billion against 62.15 million in Vietnam, a difference of 1.11 billion.

That makes IDA total's figure about 18.8 times Vietnam's.

Across all 66 years both countries report, IDA total has been ahead every year.

IDA total ranks 8th and Vietnam ranks 10th of 47 groups.

IDA total has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade	IDA total	Vietnam	Difference	Ahead
1960s	377.58 million	30.10 million	347.48 million	IDA total
1970s	465.84 million	36.88 million	428.96 million	IDA total
1980s	574.94 million	47.20 million	527.75 million	IDA total
1990s	711.79 million	56.00 million	655.79 million	IDA total
2000s	859.57 million	59.17 million	800.39 million	IDA total
2010s	1.01 billion	62.48 million	945.09 million	IDA total
2020s	1.13 billion	62.41 million	1.07 billion	IDA total

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher rural population, IDA total or Vietnam?: IDA total, at 1.17 billion against 62.15 million in Vietnam as of 2025.
What is the difference in rural population between IDA total and Vietnam?: 1.11 billion, with IDA total ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for IDA total and Vietnam?: 66 years are reported by both, from 1960 to 2025.
How do IDA total and Vietnam rank globally for rural population?: IDA total ranks 8th and Vietnam ranks 10th of 47 groups.
Where does this data come from?: World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations (UN), published as Rural population. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

IDA total vs Vietnam: Rural population. Statizoid, drawing on World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations (UN). Retrieved 12 November 2026, from https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/rural-population/ida-total/viet-nam/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://agriculture.statizoid.com/compare/rural-population/ida-total/viet-nam/">IDA total vs Vietnam: Rural population</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator: Rural population
Source: World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations (UN)
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 266 places, 17,526 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed: 12 November 2026

Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages.