Skip to main content
Home › Indicators › Urban population (% of total population) › Complete Rankings

Health & Population · Complete Rankings

Countries Ranked by Urban population (% of total population)

Showing every country with available data for 2024 • World Bank: SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS

The indicator page shows only the leaders and the laggards — useful for headlines, but it leaves out the middle of the distribution, which is where most countries actually sit. This page lists every country with reported urban population (% of total population) data for 2024, ranked from highest to lowest, so you can find any country's exact position rather than guessing whether it falls inside the top or bottom ten.

Of the 217 countries reporting, the median value is 63.89, meaning half the world sits above this line and half below. Use the search box below to jump straight to a country, or scroll the full table. Each country name links through to its detailed country × indicator page with the 20-year trend.

Top Country in Each Region

East Asia & Pacific

Hong Kong SAR, China

100.00

Europe & Central Asia

Gibraltar

100.00

Latin America & Caribbean

Cayman Islands

100.00

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Kuwait

100.00

North America

Bermuda

100.00

South Asia

Nepal

66.77

Sub-Saharan Africa

Gabon

91.86

Rank Country Urban population (% of total population)
1 Kuwait 100.00
2 Cayman Islands 100.00
3 Hong Kong SAR, China 100.00
4 Bahrain 100.00
5 Gibraltar 100.00
6 Macao SAR, China 100.00
7 Singapore 100.00
8 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 100.00
9 St. Martin (French part) 100.00
10 Monaco 100.00
11 Nauru 100.00
12 Bermuda 100.00
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 (US) 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 Curacao 91.43
31 Lebanon 90.70
32 Turkiye 89.34
33 Venezuela, RB 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 West Bank and Gaza 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, The 81.32
54 Korea, Rep. 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 Rep. 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 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, The 64.30
109 Congo, Rep. 63.89
110 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 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 British Virgin Islands 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, Fed. Rep. 54.62
145 Cote d'Ivoire 53.97
146 Trinidad and Tobago 53.96
147 Slovak Republic 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 Kosovo 50.32
155 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 47.85
156 Turkmenistan 47.09
157 Guinea-Bissau 46.11
158 Zambia 45.47
159 Sierra Leone 45.36
160 Seychelles 45.29
161 Congo, Dem. Rep. 44.75
162 Central African Republic 44.12
163 Togo 43.81
164 Lesotho 43.68
165 Moldova 43.52
166 Egypt, Arab Rep. 42.80
167 Bhutan 42.56
168 Maldives 42.00
169 Belize 41.75
170 Cambodia 40.87
171 Zimbabwe 39.89
172 Lao PDR 39.56
173 Faroe Islands 39.41
174 Pakistan 39.17
175 Mauritius 39.02
176 Viet Nam 38.49
177 Guinea 38.07
178 Yemen, Rep. 36.81
179 Grenada 36.56
180 Mozambique 36.43
181 Tanzania 36.17
182 India 35.38
183 Sudan 34.87
184 Kyrgyz Republic 34.72
185 Eritrea 34.54
186 Comoros 33.54
187 Channel Islands 32.71
188 Bangladesh 32.68
189 Madagascar 32.43
190 Kenya 31.89
191 St. Kitts and Nevis 31.80
192 Mali 31.61
193 Uganda 31.28
194 Solomon Islands 30.66
195 Myanmar 30.45
196 Rwanda 29.88
197 St. Lucia 29.10
198 Timor-Leste 28.66
199 Burkina Faso 28.34
200 Chad 26.93
201 Guyana 26.48
202 Eswatini 26.25
203 Tajikistan 26.18
204 Afghanistan 25.70
205 Burundi 24.83
206 Antigua and Barbuda 24.39
207 Ethiopia 23.62
208 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 22.46
209 Vanuatu 22.29
210 South Sudan 21.38
211 Tonga 21.15
212 Sri Lanka 20.30
213 Niger 18.05
214 Samoa 17.50
215 Malawi 17.27
216 Papua New Guinea 15.41
217 Liechtenstein 14.66

Source: World Bank Open Data (SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS), CC BY 4.0. Rankings include only countries with reported values for 2024; countries with suppressed or unavailable data are omitted.

← Back to Urban population (% of total population) overview