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WORLD STATISTICS

Population

Urban population (% of total population)

percent of population. Produced by UN DESA World Urbanization Prospects.
Indicator code
SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS
Unit
percent of population
Frequency
annual
Default classification
Estimate
Original producer
UN DESA World Urbanization Prospects
Distributed by
World Bank — World Development Indicators
License
CC BY 4.0

World trend

1990 – 2025

Highest

Most recent year per country (within 5 years of the latest).

  1. 1Kuwait100%2025
  2. 2Monaco100%2025
  3. 6Gibraltar100%2025
  4. 7Singapore100%2025
  5. 8Bahrain100%2025
  6. 10Naoero100%2025

Lowest

Most recent year per country (within 5 years of the latest).

  1. 217Liechtenstein15%2025
  2. 215Samoa18%2025
  3. 214Malawi18%2025
  4. 213Niger18%2025
  5. 212Sri Lanka20%2025
  6. 211Tonga21%2025
  7. 210South Sudan22%2025
  8. 209Vanuatu22%2025

Revision history

Changes to previously published values detected during imports.

No revisions recorded since the first import.