Rankings
Urban population share by country — world rankings
Ranking 169 countries with data.
Urban population share
| Rank | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kuwait | 100.0% (2025) |
| 2 | Qatar | 99.4% (2025) |
| 3 | Netherlands | 95.9% (2025) |
| 4 | Uruguay | 95.7% (2025) |
| 5 | Luxembourg | 94.9% (2025) |
| 6 | Puerto Rico | 94.3% (2025) |
| 7 | Iceland | 94.2% (2025) |
| 8 | Jordan | 93.2% (2025) |
| 9 | Argentina | 92.4% (2025) |
| 10 | Japan | 92.3% (2025) |
| 11 | Gabon | 92.1% (2025) |
| 12 | Israel | 91.6% (2025) |
| 13 | Lebanon | 91.0% (2025) |
| 14 | Turkey | 89.5% (2025) |
| 15 | Venezuela | 89.3% (2025) |
| 16 | Chile | 89.2% (2025) |
| 17 | Sweden | 89.1% (2025) |
| 18 | Denmark | 88.8% (2025) |
| 19 | Greenland | 88.6% (2025) |
| 20 | Brazil | 88.2% (2025) |
| 21 | Libya | 87.9% (2025) |
| 22 | Australia | 87.7% (2025) |
| 23 | Belgium | 87.7% (2025) |
| 24 | Palestine | 87.4% (2025) |
| 25 | United Arab Emirates | 86.0% (2025) |
| 26 | Switzerland | 85.7% (2025) |
| 27 | Peru | 85.6% (2025) |
| 28 | Saudi Arabia | 84.6% (2025) |
| 29 | New Zealand | 84.0% (2025) |
| 30 | Norway | 83.6% (2025) |
| 31 | United Kingdom | 83.3% (2025) |
| 32 | Canada | 82.9% (2025) |
| 33 | Germany | 82.1% (2025) |
| 34 | Bahamas | 81.3% (2025) |
| 35 | South Korea | 81.2% (2025) |
| 36 | Spain | 80.5% (2025) |
| 37 | United States | 80.2% (2025) |
| 38 | Mexico | 80.0% (2025) |
| 39 | Costa Rica | 79.7% (2025) |
| 40 | Belarus | 79.5% (2025) |
| 41 | Oman | 79.5% (2025) |
| 42 | Greece | 79.2% (2025) |
| 43 | France | 78.8% (2025) |
| 44 | Colombia | 78.8% (2025) |
| 45 | Malaysia | 77.4% (2025) |
| 46 | Iran | 77.4% (2025) |
| 47 | Cuba | 77.2% (2025) |
| 48 | Algeria | 75.8% (2025) |
| 49 | El Salvador | 75.5% (2025) |
| 50 | Russia | 75.3% (2025) |
| 51 | Brunei | 75.0% (2025) |
| 52 | Finland | 74.5% (2025) |
| 53 | Bulgaria | 74.2% (2025) |
| 54 | Djibouti | 73.0% (2025) |
| 55 | Czechia | 72.9% (2025) |
| 56 | Dominican Rep. | 72.5% (2025) |
| 57 | Syria | 72.1% (2025) |
| 58 | Eq. Guinea | 71.6% (2025) |
| 59 | Bolivia | 71.6% (2025) |
| 60 | Angola | 71.5% (2025) |
| 61 | Mongolia | 71.1% (2025) |
| 62 | Estonia | 70.7% (2025) |
| 63 | Tunisia | 70.7% (2025) |
| 64 | Hungary | 70.7% (2025) |
| 65 | Paraguay | 70.4% (2025) |
| 66 | Iraq | 69.9% (2025) |
| 67 | Austria | 69.7% (2025) |
| 68 | Italy | 69.7% (2025) |
| 69 | Ukraine | 69.6% (2025) |
| 70 | Lithuania | 69.1% (2025) |
| 71 | Latvia | 68.6% (2025) |
| 72 | New Caledonia | 68.2% (2025) |
| 73 | Botswana | 68.0% (2025) |
| 74 | Nepal | 67.0% (2025) |
| 75 | Cyprus | 66.7% (2025) |
| 76 | China | 66.3% (2025) |
| 77 | Panama | 66.2% (2025) |
| 78 | Armenia | 65.9% (2025) |
| 79 | Suriname | 65.8% (2025) |
| 80 | Montenegro | 65.6% (2025) |
| 81 | Gambia | 65.0% (2025) |
| 82 | Ireland | 64.6% (2025) |
| 83 | North Korea | 64.2% (2025) |
| 84 | Congo | 64.1% (2025) |
| 85 | South Africa | 63.8% (2025) |
| 86 | Nigeria | 63.8% (2025) |
| 87 | Ecuador | 63.4% (2025) |
| 88 | Morocco | 63.1% (2025) |
| 89 | Macedonia | 62.9% (2025) |
| 90 | Thailand | 62.8% (2025) |
| 91 | Serbia | 62.6% (2025) |
| 92 | Kazakhstan | 62.4% (2025) |
| 93 | Portugal | 61.5% (2025) |
| 94 | Mauritania | 61.5% (2025) |
| 95 | Georgia | 61.2% (2025) |
| 96 | Poland | 60.1% (2025) |
| 97 | Fiji | 59.5% (2025) |
| 98 | Nicaragua | 59.4% (2025) |
| 99 | Jamaica | 59.4% (2025) |
| 100 | Indonesia | 59.4% (2025) |
| 101 | Honduras | 59.3% (2025) |
| 102 | Ghana | 58.9% (2025) |
| 103 | Albania | 58.9% (2025) |
| 104 | Azerbaijan | 58.6% (2025) |
| 105 | Croatia | 57.8% (2025) |
| 106 | Guatemala | 56.3% (2025) |
| 107 | Liberia | 56.1% (2025) |
| 108 | Slovenia | 56.0% (2025) |
| 109 | Philippines | 55.8% (2025) |
| 110 | Senegal | 55.8% (2025) |
| 111 | Cameroon | 55.7% (2025) |
| 112 | Haiti | 55.6% (2025) |
| 113 | Somalia | 55.1% (2025) |
| 114 | Côte d'Ivoire | 54.5% (2025) |
| 115 | Trinidad and Tobago | 54.0% (2025) |
| 116 | Benin | 53.4% (2025) |
| 117 | Slovakia | 53.2% (2025) |
| 118 | Bosnia and Herz. | 52.7% (2025) |
| 119 | Romania | 52.2% (2025) |
| 120 | Uzbekistan | 51.0% (2025) |
| 121 | Namibia | 50.9% (2025) |
| 122 | Turkmenistan | 47.1% (2025) |
| 123 | Guinea-Bissau | 46.7% (2025) |
| 124 | Sierra Leone | 45.9% (2025) |
| 125 | Zambia | 45.9% (2025) |
| 126 | Dem. Rep. Congo | 45.1% (2025) |
| 127 | Lesotho | 44.7% (2025) |
| 128 | Central African Rep. | 44.6% (2025) |
| 129 | Togo | 44.4% (2025) |
| 130 | Moldova | 43.7% (2025) |
| 131 | Bhutan | 43.4% (2025) |
| 132 | Egypt | 42.9% (2025) |
| 133 | Belize | 41.6% (2025) |
| 134 | Cambodia | 41.1% (2025) |
| 135 | Zimbabwe | 40.5% (2025) |
| 136 | Laos | 40.3% (2025) |
| 137 | Pakistan | 39.5% (2025) |
| 138 | Vietnam | 38.8% (2025) |
| 139 | Guinea | 38.5% (2025) |
| 140 | Mozambique | 37.2% (2025) |
| 141 | Yemen | 37.0% (2025) |
| 142 | Tanzania | 36.9% (2025) |
| 143 | India | 35.7% (2025) |
| 144 | Sudan | 34.9% (2025) |
| 145 | Kyrgyzstan | 34.7% (2025) |
| 146 | Eritrea | 34.5% (2025) |
| 147 | Bangladesh | 33.2% (2025) |
| 148 | Madagascar | 32.9% (2025) |
| 149 | Mali | 32.2% (2025) |
| 150 | Kenya | 32.2% (2025) |
| 151 | Uganda | 31.9% (2025) |
| 152 | Solomon Is. | 31.3% (2025) |
| 153 | Rwanda | 30.9% (2025) |
| 154 | Myanmar | 30.6% (2025) |
| 155 | Burkina Faso | 28.9% (2025) |
| 156 | Timor-Leste | 28.8% (2025) |
| 157 | Chad | 27.6% (2025) |
| 158 | eSwatini | 26.7% (2025) |
| 159 | Guyana | 26.5% (2025) |
| 160 | Tajikistan | 26.2% (2025) |
| 161 | Afghanistan | 25.9% (2025) |
| 162 | Burundi | 25.7% (2025) |
| 163 | Ethiopia | 24.1% (2025) |
| 164 | Vanuatu | 22.3% (2025) |
| 165 | S. Sudan | 21.7% (2025) |
| 166 | Sri Lanka | 20.5% (2025) |
| 167 | Niger | 18.4% (2025) |
| 168 | Malawi | 17.6% (2025) |
| 169 | Papua New Guinea | 15.8% (2025) |
Ordered by value, highest first (ties break by country slug). Countries without data for this metric are not listed — they occupy no rank.
Surface area is computed from Natural Earth 1:110m boundaries with an equal-area spherical formula — not the World Bank's land-area figure; population density is our own derived metric (latest population ÷ that area).
The unweighted median across the 169 countries with data is 63.8% — shown for context, not a world average.
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Indicators: World Bank Open Data, 43 indicators — CC BY 4.0 © World Bank — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Human Development Index — CC BY 3.0 IGO © United Nations Development Programme — https://hdr.undp.org/terms-use
Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain); surface areas are computed with an equal-area spherical formula (Chamberlin–Duquette).
Reference facts (capital, languages, currencies, subregion): mledoze/countries (ODbL).