Global Rankings: Urban Population % (2024)

Rank	Country	Value
1	Bahrain	100
2	Bermuda	100
3	Cayman Islands	100
4	Gibraltar	100
5	Hong Kong	100
6	Kuwait	100
7	Macao	100
8	Monaco	100
9	Nauru	100
10	Singapore	100
11	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	100
12	Saint Martin (French part)	100
13	Qatar	99.32
14	San Marino	97.16
15	Malta	95.65
16	Netherlands	95.64
17	Uruguay	95.60
18	Virgin Islands, U.S.	95.33
19	Luxembourg	94.84
20	Puerto Rico	94.25
21	Iceland	94.18
22	Guam	94.17
23	Turks and Caicos Islands	94.17
24	Jordan	92.95
25	Argentina	92.27
26	Japan	92.19
27	Northern Mariana Islands	92.07
28	Gabon	91.86
29	Israel	91.54
30	Curaçao	91.43
31	Lebanon	90.70
32	Türkiye	89.34
33	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	89.29
34	Chile	89.00
35	Andorra	88.89
36	Sweden	88.86
37	Denmark	88.70
38	Greenland	88.32
39	Brazil	87.90
40	Libya	87.89
41	Belgium	87.61
42	Australia	87.60
43	Palestine, State of	87.12
44	United Arab Emirates	85.82
45	Switzerland	85.46
46	Peru	85.19
47	Saudi Arabia	84.46
48	New Zealand	83.94
49	Norway	83.33
50	United Kingdom	83.24
51	Canada	82.70
52	Germany	82.02
53	Bahamas	81.32
54	Korea, Republic of	81.17
55	American Samoa	80.94
56	Spain	80.32
57	United States	80.12
58	Mexico	79.75
59	Oman	79.44
60	Costa Rica	79.31
61	Palau	79.21
62	Belarus	79.16
63	Greece	79.00
64	France	78.80
65	Marshall Islands	78.73
66	Colombia	78.52
67	Cuba	77.17
68	Iran, Islamic Republic of	77.02
69	Malaysia	76.92
70	Cabo Verde	76.77
71	Algeria	75.28
72	Russian Federation	75.11
73	El Salvador	75.07
74	Brunei Darussalam	74.90
75	Finland	74.26
76	Bulgaria	73.95
77	Dominica	73.54
78	Djibouti	72.91
79	Czechia	72.79
80	Dominican Republic	72.41
81	Syrian Arab Republic	72.08
82	Equatorial Guinea	71.36
83	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	71.24
84	Mongolia	70.96
85	Estonia	70.70
86	Angola	70.66
87	Hungary	70.49
88	Tunisia	70.36
89	Iraq	69.89
90	Paraguay	69.86
91	Italy	69.60
92	Ukraine	69.53
93	Austria	69.47
94	Sao Tome and Principe	68.87
95	Lithuania	68.83
96	Latvia	68.48
97	New Caledonia	67.95
98	Botswana	67.46
99	Nepal	66.77
100	Cyprus	66.68
101	Panama	66.00
102	China	65.89
103	Armenia	65.81
104	Suriname	65.76
105	Montenegro	65.54
106	Tuvalu	64.73
107	Ireland	64.35
108	Gambia	64.30
109	Congo	63.89
110	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	63.86
111	South Africa	63.69
112	Ecuador	63.24
113	Nigeria	62.98
114	Morocco	62.80
115	North Macedonia	62.56
116	Kiribati	62.46
117	Serbia	62.38
118	Kazakhstan	62.07
119	Thailand	61.87
120	Aruba	61.79
121	French Polynesia	61.72
122	Portugal	61.33
123	Georgia	61.08
124	Mauritania	60.61
125	Poland	59.97
126	Barbados	59.54
127	Nicaragua	59.26
128	Fiji	59.08
129	Jamaica	58.93
130	Honduras	58.79
131	Indonesia	58.75
132	Azerbaijan	58.57
133	Albania	58.55
134	Ghana	58.37
135	Croatia	57.52
136	Virgin Islands, British	56.51
137	Guatemala	55.95
138	Slovenia	55.76
139	Liberia	55.54
140	Philippines	55.45
141	Cameroon	55.40
142	Senegal	55.24
143	Haiti	55.04
144	Somalia	54.62
145	Côte d'Ivoire	53.97
146	Trinidad and Tobago	53.96
147	Slovakia	53.19
148	Benin	52.55
149	Romania	52.17
150	Isle of Man	52.16
151	Bosnia and Herzegovina	52.12
152	Uzbekistan	51.00
153	Namibia	50.41
154	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	47.85
155	Turkmenistan	47.09
156	Guinea-Bissau	46.11
157	Zambia	45.47
158	Sierra Leone	45.36
159	Seychelles	45.29
160	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	44.75
161	Central African Republic	44.12
162	Togo	43.81
163	Lesotho	43.68
164	Moldova, Republic of	43.52
165	Egypt	42.80
166	Bhutan	42.56
167	Maldives	42.00
168	Belize	41.75
169	Cambodia	40.87
170	Zimbabwe	39.89
171	Lao People's Democratic Republic	39.56
172	Faroe Islands	39.41
173	Pakistan	39.17
174	Mauritius	39.02
175	Viet Nam	38.49
176	Guinea	38.07
177	Yemen	36.81
178	Grenada	36.56
179	Mozambique	36.43
180	Tanzania, United Republic of	36.17
181	India	35.38
182	Sudan	34.87
183	Kyrgyzstan	34.72
184	Eritrea	34.54
185	Comoros	33.54
186	Bangladesh	32.68
187	Madagascar	32.43
188	Kenya	31.89
189	Saint Kitts and Nevis	31.80
190	Mali	31.61
191	Uganda	31.28
192	Solomon Islands	30.66
193	Myanmar	30.45
194	Rwanda	29.88
195	Saint Lucia	29.10
196	Timor-Leste	28.66
197	Burkina Faso	28.34
198	Chad	26.93
199	Guyana	26.48
200	Eswatini	26.25
201	Tajikistan	26.18
202	Afghanistan	25.70
203	Burundi	24.83
204	Antigua and Barbuda	24.39
205	Ethiopia	23.62
206	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.46
207	Vanuatu	22.29
208	South Sudan	21.38
209	Tonga	21.15
210	Sri Lanka	20.30
211	Niger	18.05
212	Samoa	17.50
213	Malawi	17.27
214	Papua New Guinea	15.41
215	Liechtenstein	14.66

About This Indicator

Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. The data are collected and smoothed by United Nations Population Division.

Data source: World Bank Development Indicators