Country Comparison :: Urbanization
This entry provides two measures of the degree of urbanization of a population. The first, urban population, describes the percentage of the total population living in urban areas, as defined by the country. The second, rate of urbanization, describes the projected average rate of change of the size of the urban population over the given period of time. Additionally, the World entry includes a list of the ten largest urban agglomerations. An urban agglomeration is defined as comprising the city or town proper and also the suburban fringe or thickly settled territory lying outside of, but adjacent to, the boundaries of the city.
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Rank
country (%) Date of Information
1 Anguilla
100.00
NA
2 Bermuda
100.00
NA
3 Cayman Islands
100.00
NA
4 Gibraltar
100.00
NA
5 Holy See (Vatican City)
100.00
NA
6 Macau
100.00
NA
7 Monaco
100.00
NA
8 Nauru
100.00
NA
9 Singapore
100.00
NA
10 Hong Kong
100.00
NA
11 Puerto Rico
99.00
NA
12 Kuwait
98.00
NA
13 Belgium
97.00
NA
14 Qatar
96.00
NA
15 Malta
95.00
NA
16 Virgin Islands
95.00
NA
17 San Marino
94.00
NA
18 Turks and Caicos Islands
93.00
NA
19 Venezuela
93.00
NA
20 Iceland
93.00
NA
21 American Samoa
93.00
NA
22 Israel
92.00
NA
23 Uruguay
92.00
NA
24 Argentina
92.00
NA
25 Saint Pierre and Miquelon
91.00
NA
26 Northern Mariana Islands
91.00
NA
27 Chile
89.00
NA
28 Australia
89.00
NA
29 Bahrain
89.00
NA
30 Andorra
88.00
NA
31 Denmark
87.00
NA
32 Brazil
87.00
NA
33 Lebanon
87.00
NA
34 New Zealand
86.00
NA
35 Gabon
86.00
NA
36 Sweden
85.00
NA
37 Luxembourg
85.00
NA
38 France
85.00
NA
39 Finland
85.00
NA
40 United Arab Emirates
84.00
NA
41 Greenland
84.00
NA
42 Bahamas, The
84.00
NA
43 Netherlands
83.00
NA
44 Palau
83.00
NA
45 Korea, South
83.00
NA
46 Western Sahara
82.00
NA
47 United States
82.00
NA
48 Saudi Arabia
82.00
NA
49 Canada
81.00
NA
50 United Kingdom
80.00
NA
51 Norway
79.00
NA
52 Jordan
79.00
NA
53 Libya
78.00
NA
54 Mexico
78.00
NA
55 Peru
77.00
NA
56 Spain
77.00
NA
57 Brunei
76.00
NA
58 Djibouti
76.00
NA
59 Panama
75.00
NA
60 Cook Islands
75.00
NA
61 Cuba
75.00
NA
62 Colombia
75.00
NA
63 Belarus
75.00
NA
64 Switzerland
74.00
NA
65 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
74.00
NA
66 Germany
74.00
NA
67 Czech Republic
74.00
NA
68 Russia
73.00
NA
69 Oman
73.00
NA
70 Marshall Islands
72.00
NA
71 Malaysia
72.00
NA
72 Gaza Strip
72.00
NA
73 West Bank
72.00
NA
74 Bulgaria
71.00
NA
75 Iran
71.00
NA
76 Cyprus
70.00
NA
77 Turkey
70.00
NA
78 Ukraine
69.00
NA
79 Estonia
69.00
NA
80 Dominican Republic
69.00
NA
81 Suriname
69.00
NA
82 Hungary
68.00
NA
83 Austria
68.00
NA
84 Latvia
68.00
NA
85 Italy
68.00
NA
86 Tunisia
67.00
NA
87 Japan
67.00
NA
88 Ecuador
67.00
NA
89 Bolivia
67.00
NA
90 Dominica
67.00
NA
91 Lithuania
67.00
NA
92 Algeria
66.00
NA
93 Iraq
66.00
NA
94 Armenia
64.00
NA
95 El Salvador
64.00
NA
96 Costa Rica
64.00
NA
97 South Africa
62.00
NA
98 Sao Tome and Principe
62.00
NA
99 Ireland
62.00
NA
100 Congo, Republic of the
62.00
NA
101 Mongolia
62.00
NA
102 Greece
61.00
NA
103 Montenegro
61.00
NA
104 Paraguay
61.00
NA
105 Cape Verde
61.00
NA
106 Portugal
61.00
NA
107 Botswana
61.00
NA
108 Poland
61.00
NA
109 Korea, North
60.00
NA
110 Kazakhstan
59.00
NA
111 Angola
59.00
NA
112 Macedonia
59.00
NA
113 Croatia
58.00
NA
114 Gambia, The
58.00
NA
115 Cameroon
58.00
NA
116 Morocco
58.00
NA
117 Romania
57.00
NA
118 Nicaragua
57.00
NA
119 New Caledonia
57.00
NA
120 Serbia
56.00
NA
121 Syria
56.00
NA
122 Slovakia
55.00
NA
123 Seychelles
55.00
NA
124 Georgia
53.00
NA
125 Haiti
52.00
NA
126 Honduras
52.00
NA
127 Jamaica
52.00
NA
128 Fiji
52.00
NA
129 Albania
52.00
NA
130 Belize
52.00
NA
131 Azerbaijan
52.00
NA
132 Isle of Man
51.00
NA
133 Ghana
51.00
NA
134 French Polynesia
51.00
NA
135 Cote d'Ivoire
51.00
NA
136 Slovenia
50.00
NA
137 Nigeria
50.00
NA
138 Turkmenistan
50.00
NA
139 Tuvalu
50.00
NA
140 Philippines
49.00
NA
141 Bosnia and Herzegovina
49.00
NA
142 Guatemala
49.00
NA
143 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
49.00
NA
144 Liberia
48.00
NA
145 Moldova
47.00
NA
146 China
47.00
NA
147 Aruba
47.00
NA
148 Indonesia
44.00
NA
149 Barbados
44.00
NA
150 Kiribati
44.00
NA
151 Egypt
43.40
NA
152 Togo
43.00
NA
153 Senegal
42.00
NA
154 Benin
42.00
NA
155 Mauritius
42.00
NA
156 Mauritania
41.00
NA
157 British Virgin Islands
41.00
NA
158 Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
40.00
NA
159 Sudan
40.00
NA
160 Faroe Islands
40.00
NA
161 Equatorial Guinea
40.00
NA
162 Maldives
40.00
NA
163 Grenada
39.00
NA
164 Central African Republic
39.00
NA
165 Sierra Leone
38.00
NA
166 Namibia
38.00
NA
167 Niue
38.00
NA
168 Mozambique
38.00
NA
169 Zimbabwe
38.00
NA
170 Somalia
37.00
NA
171 Uzbekistan
36.00
NA
172 Pakistan
36.00
NA
173 Mali
36.00
NA
174 Zambia
36.00
NA
175 Guinea
35.00
NA
176 Congo, Democratic Republic of the
35.00
NA
177 Bhutan
35.00
NA
178 Kyrgyzstan
35.00
NA
179 Burma
34.00
NA
180 Thailand
34.00
NA
181 Laos
33.00
NA
182 Saint Kitts and Nevis
32.00
NA
183 Yemen
32.00
NA
184 Jersey
31.00
NA
185 Guernsey
31.00
NA
186 Guinea-Bissau
30.00
NA
187 Vietnam
30.00
NA
188 Antigua and Barbuda
30.00
NA
189 Madagascar
30.00
NA
190 India
30.00
NA
191 Guyana
29.00
NA
192 Saint Lucia
28.00
NA
193 Timor-Leste
28.00
NA
194 Comoros
28.00
NA
195 Chad
28.00
NA
196 Bangladesh
28.00
NA
197 Lesotho
27.00
NA
198 Tajikistan
26.00
NA
199 Vanuatu
26.00
NA
200 Burkina Faso
26.00
NA
201 Tanzania
26.00
NA
202 Tonga
23.00
NA
203 Afghanistan
23.00
NA
204 Micronesia, Federated States of
23.00
NA
205 South Sudan
22.00
2009 est.
206 Eritrea
22.00
NA
207 Kenya
22.00
NA
208 Swaziland
21.00
NA
209 Samoa
20.00
NA
210 Cambodia
20.00
NA
211 Malawi
20.00
NA
212 Rwanda
19.00
NA
213 Solomon Islands
19.00
NA
214 Nepal
19.00
NA
215 Ethiopia
17.00
NA
216 Niger
17.00
NA
217 Trinidad and Tobago
14.00
NA
218 Sri Lanka
14.00
NA
219 Montserrat
14.00
NA
220 Liechtenstein
14.00
NA
221 Uganda
13.00
NA
222 Papua New Guinea
13.00
NA
223 Burundi
11.00
NA
224 Burkina Faso
6.20
NA
225 Malawi
5.30
NA
226 Eritrea
5.20
NA
227 Timor-Leste
5.00
NA
228 Laos
4.90
NA
229 Burundi
4.90
NA
230 Uganda
4.80
NA
231 Tanzania
4.70
NA
232 Nepal
4.70
NA
233 Afghanistan
4.70
NA
234 Niger
4.70
NA
235 Yemen
4.60
NA
236 Chad
4.60
NA
237 Congo, Democratic Republic of the
4.50
NA
238 Mali
4.40
NA
239 Rwanda
4.40
NA
240 Guinea
4.30
NA
241 Kenya
4.20
NA
242 Vanuatu
4.20
NA
243 Maldives
4.20
NA
244 Solomon Islands
4.20
NA
245 Somalia
4.10
NA
246 Mozambique
4.00
NA
247 Angola
4.00
NA
248 Benin
4.00
NA
249 Togo
3.90
NA
250 Madagascar
3.90
NA
251 Haiti
3.90
NA
252 Ethiopia
3.80
NA
253 Bhutan
3.70
NA
254 Cote d'Ivoire
3.70
NA
255 Gambia, The
3.70
NA
256 Sudan
3.70
NA
257 Nigeria
3.50
NA
258 Western Sahara
3.50
NA
259 Zimbabwe
3.40
NA
260 Lesotho
3.40
NA
261 Liberia
3.40
NA
262 Guatemala
3.40
NA
263 Ghana
3.40
NA
264 Namibia
3.30
NA
265 Sierra Leone
3.30
NA
266 Cameroon
3.30
NA
267 Gaza Strip
3.30
NA
268 West Bank
3.30
NA
269 Senegal
3.30
NA
270 Cambodia
3.20
NA
271 Zambia
3.20
NA
272 Bangladesh
3.10
NA
273 Equatorial Guinea
3.10
NA
274 Pakistan
3.10
NA
275 Honduras
3.10
NA
276 Trinidad and Tobago
3.00
NA
277 Vietnam
3.00
NA
278 Congo, Republic of the
3.00
NA
279 Guinea-Bissau
3.00
NA
280 Burma
2.90
NA
281 Papua New Guinea
2.90
NA
282 Mauritania
2.90
NA
283 Comoros
2.80
NA
284 Sao Tome and Principe
2.80
NA
285 Belize
2.70
NA
286 Iraq
2.60
NA
287 Syria
2.50
NA
288 Paraguay
2.50
NA
289 Central African Republic
2.50
NA
290 Montserrat
2.40
NA
291 Malaysia
2.40
NA
292 India
2.40
NA
293 Cape Verde
2.40
NA
294 China
2.30
NA
295 Panama
2.30
NA
296 Algeria
2.30
NA
297 Botswana
2.30
NA
298 Albania
2.30
NA
299 Philippines
2.30
NA
300 United Arab Emirates
2.30
NA
301 Oman
2.30
NA
302 Marshall Islands
2.30
NA
303 Turkmenistan
2.20
NA
304 Saudi Arabia
2.20
NA
305 Tajikistan
2.20
NA
306 Brunei
2.20
NA
307 Bolivia
2.20
NA
308 Libya
2.10
NA
309 Kuwait
2.10
NA
310 Dominican Republic
2.10
NA
311 Costa Rica
2.10
NA
312 Morocco
2.10
NA
313 Egypt
2.10
NA
314 Gabon
2.10
NA
315 Nicaragua
2.00
NA
316 Ecuador
2.00
NA
317 Iran
1.90
NA
318 Mongolia
1.90
NA
319 Kiribati
1.90
NA
320 Ireland
1.80
NA
321 Djibouti
1.80
NA
322 Saint Kitts and Nevis
1.80
NA
323 Bahrain
1.80
NA
324 Thailand
1.80
NA
325 American Samoa
1.80
NA
326 Anguilla
1.70
NA
327 British Virgin Islands
1.70
NA
328 Indonesia
1.70
NA
329 Barbados
1.70
NA
330 Venezuela
1.70
NA
331 Colombia
1.70
NA
332 Northern Mariana Islands
1.70
NA
333 Turkey
1.70
NA
334 Saint Lucia
1.60
NA
335 Peru
1.60
NA
336 Grenada
1.60
NA
337 Jordan
1.60
NA
338 Qatar
1.60
NA
339 Turks and Caicos Islands
1.60
NA
340 Iceland
1.50
NA
341 Israel
1.50
NA
342 Swaziland
1.50
NA
343 Tunisia
1.50
NA
344 Suriname
1.50
NA
345 El Salvador
1.40
NA
346 Tuvalu
1.40
NA
347 Uzbekistan
1.40
NA
348 Cook Islands
1.40
NA
349 Azerbaijan
1.40
NA
350 Antigua and Barbuda
1.40
NA
351 Palau
1.40
NA
352 Luxembourg
1.40
NA
353 New Caledonia
1.40
NA
354 Kazakhstan
1.30
NA
355 French Polynesia
1.30
NA
356 Micronesia, Federated States of
1.30
NA
357 Fiji
1.30
NA
358 Seychelles
1.30
NA
359 Kyrgyzstan
1.30
NA
360 Cyprus
1.30
NA
361 Bahamas, The
1.30
NA
362 United States
1.20
NA
363 Norway
1.20
NA
364 South Africa
1.20
NA
365 Australia
1.20
NA
366 Mexico
1.20
NA
367 Chile
1.10
NA
368 Andorra
1.10
NA
369 Canada
1.10
NA
370 Brazil
1.10
NA
371 Bosnia and Herzegovina
1.10
NA
372 Sri Lanka
1.10
NA
373 Argentina
1.10
NA
374 Portugal
1.00
NA
375 France
1.00
NA
376 Spain
1.00
NA
377 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1.00
NA
378 Liechtenstein
0.90
NA
379 Lebanon
0.90
NA
380 Moldova
0.90
NA
381 Hong Kong
0.90
NA
382 Faroe Islands
0.90
NA
383 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
0.90
NA
384 New Zealand
0.90
NA
385 Cayman Islands
0.90
NA
386 Singapore
0.90
NA
387 Tonga
0.80
NA
388 Jersey
0.80
NA
389 Mauritius
0.80
NA
390 Netherlands
0.80
NA
391 Guernsey
0.80
NA
392 United Kingdom
0.70
NA
393 Macau
0.70
NA
394 San Marino
0.60
NA
395 Korea, North
0.60
NA
396 Sweden
0.60
NA
397 Austria
0.60
NA
398 Romania
0.60
NA
399 Jamaica
0.60
NA
400 Korea, South
0.60
NA
401 Greece
0.60
NA
402 Nauru
0.60
NA
403 Finland
0.60
NA
404 Serbia
0.60
NA
405 Aruba
0.60
NA
406 Italy
0.50
NA
407 Guyana
0.50
NA
408 Armenia
0.50
NA
409 Switzerland
0.50
NA
410 Puerto Rico
0.50
NA
411 Malta
0.50
NA
412 Uruguay
0.40
NA
413 Denmark
0.40
NA
414 Belgium
0.40
NA
415 Croatia
0.40
NA
416 Dominica
0.30
NA
417 Hungary
0.30
NA
418 Czech Republic
0.30
NA
419 Monaco
0.30
NA
420 Macedonia
0.30
NA
421 Greenland
0.30
NA
422 Slovenia
0.20
NA
423 Gibraltar
0.20
NA
424 Bermuda
0.20
NA
425 Japan
0.20
NA
426 Saint Pierre and Miquelon
0.10
NA
427 Holy See (Vatican City)
0.10
NA
428 Montenegro
0.10
NA
429 Estonia
0.10
NA
430 Slovakia
0.10
NA
431 Belarus
0.10
NA
432 Cuba
0.00
NA
433 Germany
0.00
NA
434 Isle of Man
0.00
NA
435 Pitcairn Islands
0.00
NA
436 Samoa
0.00
NA
437 Tokelau
0.00
NA
438 Tokelau
0.00
NA
439 Wallis and Futuna
0.00
NA
440 Wallis and Futuna
0.00
NA
441 Pitcairn Islands
0.00
NA
442 Poland
-0.10
NA
443 Ukraine
-0.10
NA
444 Virgin Islands
-0.10
NA
445 Russia
-0.20
NA
446 Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
-0.30
NA
447 Bulgaria
-0.30
NA
448 Latvia
-0.40
NA
449 Georgia
-0.40
NA
450 Lithuania
-0.50
NA
451 Niue
-1.30
NA