Global Rankings: Urban Population % (2024)

Rank	Country	Value
1	Bermuda	100
2	Cayman Islands	100
3	Gibraltar	100
4	Hong Kong	100
5	Kuwait	100
6	Macao	100
7	Monaco	100
8	Nauru	100
9	Singapore	100
10	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	100
11	Qatar	99.39
12	Belgium	98.22
13	San Marino	97.93
14	Virgin Islands, U.S.	96.31
15	Uruguay	95.85
16	Guam	95.24
17	Malta	95.01
18	Turks and Caicos Islands	94.43
19	Iceland	94.09
20	Puerto Rico	93.66
21	Netherlands	93.45
22	Israel	92.95
23	Argentina	92.58
24	Luxembourg	92.27
25	Jordan	92.21
26	Northern Mariana Islands	92.17
27	Japan	92.13
28	Gabon	91.31
29	Bahrain	90.00
30	Lebanon	89.60
31	Curaçao	89.03
32	Oman	89.00
33	Sweden	88.98
34	Denmark	88.63
35	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	88.50
36	Greenland	88.15
37	Chile	88.12
38	Brazil	88.02
39	United Arab Emirates	88.01
40	Andorra	87.75
41	American Samoa	87.28
42	New Zealand	87.09
43	Australia	86.75
44	Finland	85.87
45	Saudi Arabia	85.17
46	Dominican Republic	85.01
47	United Kingdom	84.88
48	Norway	84.32
49	Bahamas	83.76
50	United States	83.52
51	Costa Rica	83.17
52	Palau	82.84
53	Colombia	82.65
54	France	82.04
55	Canada	81.98
56	Libya	81.91
57	Mexico	81.86
58	Spain	81.80
59	Korea, Republic of	81.50
60	Belarus	81.12
61	Greece	80.98
62	Brunei Darussalam	79.44
63	Marshall Islands	79.21
64	Malaysia	79.20
65	Peru	79.14
66	Djibouti	78.73
67	Germany	77.89
68	Türkiye	77.89
69	Palestine, State of	77.88
70	Iran, Islamic Republic of	77.70
71	Cuba	77.66
72	Bulgaria	77.04
73	Sao Tome and Principe	77.01
74	El Salvador	76.00
75	Algeria	75.75
76	Russian Federation	75.55
77	Equatorial Guinea	74.87
78	Czechia	74.74
79	Switzerland	74.33
80	Botswana	73.49
81	Hungary	73.18
82	New Caledonia	73.11
83	Dominica	72.31
84	Italy	72.29
85	Iraq	71.85
86	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	71.55
87	Tunisia	70.88
88	Ukraine	70.28
89	Estonia	70.02
90	Panama	69.89
91	Congo	69.64
92	South Africa	69.30
93	Angola	69.28
94	Mongolia	69.26
95	Lithuania	68.94
96	Montenegro	68.84
97	Latvia	68.81
98	Portugal	68.42
99	Cabo Verde	68.41
100	Cyprus	67.08
101	Tuvalu	66.93
102	Suriname	66.53
103	Morocco	65.64
104	China	65.54
105	Albania	65.38
106	Gambia	65.08
107	Ecuador	65.03
108	Ireland	64.76
109	Armenia	63.93
110	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	63.50
111	Paraguay	63.49
112	French Polynesia	62.42
113	Georgia	61.16
114	Honduras	60.82
115	Haiti	60.47
116	Poland	60.33
117	Nicaragua	60.16
118	Cameroon	59.89
119	North Macedonia	59.87
120	Ghana	59.85
121	Austria	59.82
122	Seychelles	59.24
123	Indonesia	59.20
124	Fiji	59.19
125	Croatia	58.95
126	Mauritania	58.46
127	Kiribati	58.45
128	Kazakhstan	58.39
129	Syrian Arab Republic	58.04
130	Azerbaijan	58.00
131	Jamaica	57.76
132	Serbia	57.37
133	Slovenia	56.44
134	Namibia	55.80
135	Nigeria	55.03
136	Romania	54.88
137	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	54.73
138	Turkmenistan	54.52
139	Thailand	54.32
140	Slovakia	54.17
141	Liberia	54.08
142	Isle of Man	53.71
143	Côte d'Ivoire	53.64
144	Trinidad and Tobago	53.56
145	Guatemala	53.54
146	Bosnia and Herzegovina	50.71
147	Benin	50.67
148	Uzbekistan	50.63
149	Virgin Islands, British	50.17
150	Senegal	50.08
151	Philippines	48.61
152	Somalia	48.52
153	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	48.05
154	Mali	46.93
155	Zambia	46.91
156	Belize	46.84
157	Guinea-Bissau	45.89
158	Togo	45.06
159	Bhutan	45
160	Sierra Leone	44.78
161	Aruba	44.47
162	Central African Republic	44.13
163	Eritrea	43.91
164	Moldova, Republic of	43.60
165	Egypt	43.26
166	Faroe Islands	43.21
167	Maldives	42.41
168	Madagascar	41.23
169	Bangladesh	41.23
170	Mauritius	40.94
171	Yemen	40.48
172	Viet Nam	40.20
173	Mozambique	39.33
174	Lao People's Democratic Republic	38.91
175	Guinea	38.52
176	Pakistan	38.37
177	Kyrgyzstan	38.17
178	Tanzania, United Republic of	38.14
179	Grenada	37.27
180	India	36.87
181	Sudan	36.75
182	Burkina Faso	33.17
183	Timor-Leste	32.84
184	Zimbabwe	32.67
185	Myanmar	32.47
186	Barbados	31.55
187	Saint Kitts and Nevis	31.22
188	Lesotho	30.90
189	Comoros	30.42
190	Kenya	30.05
191	Tajikistan	28.52
192	Uganda	27.39
193	Guyana	27.32
194	Afghanistan	27.27
195	Solomon Islands	26.49
196	Vanuatu	26.15
197	Cambodia	26.04
198	Eswatini	25.01
199	Chad	24.69
200	Antigua and Barbuda	24.34
201	Ethiopia	23.66
202	Micronesia, Federated States of	23.55
203	Tonga	23.21
204	Nepal	22.37
205	South Sudan	21.56
206	Sri Lanka	19.42
207	Saint Lucia	19.31
208	Malawi	18.60
209	Rwanda	18.08
210	Samoa	17.42
211	Niger	17.23
212	Burundi	15.16
213	Liechtenstein	14.71
214	Papua New Guinea	13.88

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