Urban Population of the World - statistics and charts as map, diagram and table

Rank (total)	Country	Urban Population (percent)	Date
1	Puerto Rico	94.4	ESDJ 1 VII 2000
2	Uruguay	93.6	ESDF 1 VII 2006
3	Guam	93.1	ESDJ 1 VII 2004
4	Iceland	92.6	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
5	Israel	91.8	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
6	Argentina	90.6	ESDF 1 VII 2006
7	Venezuela	87.9	ESDF 1 VII 2002
8	Bahrain	87.8	CDJC 7 IV 2001
9	Chile	86.9	ESDF 1 VII 2006
10	Japan	86.3	CDJC 1 X 2005
11	New Zealand	86.1	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
12	Bahamas	84.9	CDFC 1 V 2000
13	San Marino	84.4	CDFC 1 VII 2000
14	Australia	83.2	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
15	Jordan	82.6	ESDF 1 VII 2006
16	United Arab Emirates	82.4	CDFC 5 XII 2005
17	Greenland	82.3	ESDJ 1 VII 2003
18	Korea (South)	81.5	CDJC 1 XI 2005
19	Brazil	81.2	CDJC 1 VIII 2000
20	Great Britain & Northern Ireland	80.0	CDFC 29 IV 2001
21	Canada	79.7	CDJC 15 V 2001
22	United States of America	79.0	CDJC 1 IV 2000
23	Palau	77.4	CDFC 1 IV 2005
24	Mexico	76.9	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
25	Norway	76.5	CDJC 3 XI 2001
26	Cuba	75.5	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
27	Colombia	74.6	ESDF 1 VII 2006
28	Peru	74.4	ESDF 1 VII 2006
29	Czech Republic	73.6	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
30	Switzerland	73.3	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
31	Russia	72.9	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
32	Belarus	72.6	ESDF 1 VII 2006
33	Brunei	71.7	CDFC 21 VIII 2001
33	Palestinian Territories	71.7	ESDF 1 VII 2006
35	Oman	71.5	ESDF 1 VII 2006
36	Bulgaria	70.5	ESDF 1 VII 2006
37	Estonia	69.4	ESDF 1 VII 2006
38	Cyprus	68.8	CDJC 1 X 2001
39	Latvia	68.0	ESDF 1 VII 2006
40	Hungary	67.0	ESDF 1 VII 2006
41	Ukraine	66.9	ESDJ 1 VII 2003
42	Austria	66.8	CDJC 15 V 2001
43	Iran	66.7	ESDJ 1 VII 2005
43	Iraq	66.7	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
43	Lithuania	66.7	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
43	Suriname	66.7	CDJC 2 VIII 2004
47	Netherlands	66.1	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
48	Bolivia	64.7	ESDF 1 VII 2006
49	Armenia	64.1	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
50	Panama	63.8	ESDF 1 VII 2006
51	Dominican Republic	63.7	ESDF 1 VII 2006
52	Finland	63.0	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
53	Ecuador	62.9	ESDF 1 VII 2004
54	Turkey	62.7	ESDF 1 VII 2006
55	Montenegro	62.5	ESDJ 1 VII 2005
56	Malaysia	62.0	CDJC 5 VII 2000
57	Poland	61.4	ESDF 1 VII 2006
58	Mongolia	60.6	ESDF 1 VII 2006
59	El Salvador	60.0	ESDF 1 VII 2006
60	Ireland	59.6	CDFC 28 IV 2002
60	Macedonia	59.6	ESDF 1 VII 1997
62	Costa Rica	59.0	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
63	Cook Islands	58.8	CDFC 1 XII 1996
64	Algeria	58.3	CDJC 25 VI 1998
65	New Caledonia	58.2	ESDF 1 VII 2004
66	Nicaragua	57.9	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
67	Serbia	57.5	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
68	Kazakhstan	57.3	ESDF 1 VII 2006
69	Paraguay	56.7	CDFC 28 VIII 2002
70	Cape Verde	55.8	ESDF 1 VII 2003
71	Croatia	55.7	CDJC 31 III 2001
72	Slovakia	55.5	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
73	Romania	55.2	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
74	Morocco	55.1	CDFC 1 IX 2004
75	Portugal	54.9	CDFC 12 III 2001
76	Sao Tome and Principe	54.5	CDJC 25 VIII 2001
77	Syria	53.5	ESDF 1 VII 2006
78	Cameroon	53.4	ESDF 1 VII 2004
79	South Africa	52.6	ESDF 1 VII 2002
80	Georgia	52.5	ESDF 1 VII 2006
81	Jamaica	52.0	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
82	Azerbaijan	51.5	ESDF 1 VII 2004
83	Belize	50.6	ESDF 1 VII 2006
84	Honduras	49.2	ESDF 1 VII 2006
85	Albania	48.5	ESDF 1 VII 2006
86	Slovenia	47.9	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
87	Fiji Islands	46.4	CDFC 25 VIII 1996
88	Liberia	45.4	ESDF 1 VII 1997
89	Ghana	43.8	CDFC 26 III 2000
90	Kiribati	43.6	CDFC 7 XII 2005
91	China	43.4	ESDF 1 VII 2006
92	Indonesia	43.1	SSDF 31 X 2005
93	Egypt	42.6	ESDF 1 VII 2006
94	Cote d'Ivoire	42.5	CDFC 21 XI 1998
95	Mauritius	42.1	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
96	Moldova	41.6	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
97	Senegal	40.7	CDJC 8 XII 2002
98	Saint Vincent & the Grenadines	40.0	ESDF 1 VII 2004
99	Benin	38.9	CDJC 11 II 2002
100	Central African Republic	37.9	CDFC 8 XII 2003
101	Uzbekistan	37.1	ESDF 1 VII 2001
102	Sierra Leone	36.2	ESDF 1 VII 2003
103	Zambia	35.8	CDFC 25 X 2000
104	Haiti	35.6	ESDJ 1 VII 2000
105	Kyrgyzstan	35.4	ESDF 1 VII 2006
106	Maldives	34.7	CDFC 21 III 2006
107	Zimbabwe	34.6	CDFC 17 VIII 2002
108	Somalia	34.0	SSDF 1 VII 2002
109	Namibia	33.0	CDFC 27 VIII 2001
110	Pakistan	32.6	ESDF 1 VII 1998
111	Mali	32.4	ESDF 1 I 2006
112	Thailand	30.3	ESDJ 1 VII 2006
113	India	29.0	ESDF 1 VII 2006
114	Mozambique	28.6	CDFC 1 VIII 1997
114	Yemen	28.6	CDFC 16 XII 2004
116	Comoros	27.9	CDFC 1 IX 2003
117	Saint Lucia	27.6	CDFC 22 V 2001
118	Vietnam	27.1	ESDF 1 VII 2006
119	Tajikistan	26.3	ESDF 1 VII 2006
120	Bangladesh	24.6	ESDF 1 VII 2006
120	Madagascar	24.6	ESDF 1 VII 2004
122	Lesotho	23.8	CDJC 9 IV 2006
123	Botswana	23.2	ESDF 1 VII 2004
124	Swaziland	23.1	CDFC 11 V 1997
125	Tonga	22.9	CDFC 30 XI 1996
126	Samoa	22.0	ESDF 1 VII 2006
127	Afghanistan	21.5	ESDF 1 VII 2006
127	Vanuatu	21.5	CDJC 16 XI 1999
129	Burkina Faso	20.1	CDJC 9 XII 2006
130	Kenya	17.6	ESDF 1 VII 2005
131	Laos	17.1	CDFC 1 III 1995
131	Saint Helena	17.1	CDFC 8 III 1998
133	Rwanda	16.9	CDJC 16 VIII 2002
134	Niger	16.3	ESDJ 1 VII 2005
135	Ethiopia	15.8	ESDF 1 VII 2004
136	Cambodia	15.0	SSDF 1 VII 2004
137	Sri Lanka	14.6	CDFC 17 VII 2001
138	Malawi	14.4	ESDF 1 VII 2005
139	Papua New Guinea	13.2	CDFC 9 VII 2000
140	Uganda	13.1	ESDF 1 VII 2006
141	Nepal	10.6	ESDJ 1 VII 1996
142	Burundi	7.8	ESDF 1 VII 1998
	World	...

For non-listed countries is no information available.

The presented rates are not strictly comparable due to differences of definitions of the term "urban''.
CDFC = Census, de facto, complete tabulation.
CDFS = Census, de facto, sample tabulation.
CDJC = Census, de jure, complete tabulation.
CDJS = Census, de jure, sample tabulation.
SSDF = Sample survey, de facto.
SSDJ =- Sample survey, de jure.
ESDF = Estimates, de facto.
ESDJ = Estimates, de jure.

Source: UN Demographic Yearbook 2006

(c) Thomas Brinkhoff, 2008-07-29

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