Countries ranked by urban population share

Every country ranked by urban population share, highest to lowest. Anguilla tops the list at 100.0%; Wallis and Futuna is lowest at 0.0%.

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Highest

1Anguilla100.0%
2Bahrain100.0%
3Saint Barthelemy100.0%
4Bermuda100.0%
5Cayman Islands100.0%

Lowest

236Wallis and Futuna0.0%
235Tokelau0.0%
234Montserrat9.0%
233Liechtenstein14.6%
232Papua New Guinea15.8%

Full ranking — all 236 countries

#	Country	Urban population share
1	Anguilla	100.0%
2	Bahrain	100.0%
3	Saint Barthelemy	100.0%
4	Bermuda	100.0%
5	Cayman Islands	100.0%
6	Gibraltar	100.0%
7	Hong Kong	100.0%
8	Kuwait	100.0%
9	Macao	100.0%
10	Saint Martin (French part)	100.0%
11	Monaco	100.0%
12	Nauru	100.0%
13	Singapore	100.0%
14	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	100.0%
15	Vatican	100.0%
16	Qatar	99.4%
17	Reunion	97.3%
18	San Marino	97.2%
19	Martinique	96.8%
20	Guadeloupe	96.4%
21	Netherlands	95.9%
22	Malta	95.7%
23	Uruguay	95.7%
24	United States Virgin Islands	95.4%
25	Luxembourg	94.9%
26	Mayotte	94.4%
27	Turks and Caicos Islands	94.4%
28	Puerto Rico	94.3%
29	Guam	94.2%
30	Iceland	94.2%
31	Jordan	93.2%
32	Argentina	92.4%
33	Japan	92.3%
34	Northern Mariana Islands	92.2%
35	Gabon	92.1%
36	Israel	91.6%
37	Curacao	91.5%
38	Lebanon	91.0%
39	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	90.2%
40	Turkey	89.5%
41	Venezuela	89.3%
42	Chile	89.2%
43	Sweden	89.1%
44	Andorra	88.9%
45	Denmark	88.8%
46	Greenland	88.6%
47	Brazil	88.2%
48	Libya	87.9%
49	Australia	87.7%
50	Belgium	87.7%
51	Palestine	87.4%
52	Western Sahara	86.9%
53	French Guiana	86.6%
54	United Arab Emirates	86.0%
55	Switzerland	85.7%
56	Peru	85.6%
57	Saudi Arabia	84.6%
58	New Zealand	84.0%
59	Norway	83.6%
60	United Kingdom	83.3%
61	Canada	82.9%
62	Germany	82.1%
63	Falkland Islands	81.5%
64	Bahamas	81.3%
65	South Korea	81.2%
66	Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba	81.1%
67	American Samoa	80.5%
68	Spain	80.5%
69	United States	80.2%
70	Mexico	80.0%
71	Costa Rica	79.7%
72	Belarus	79.5%
73	Oman	79.5%
74	Palau	79.3%
75	Greece	79.2%
76	Marshall Islands	79.1%
77	Taiwan	78.9%
78	Colombia	78.8%
79	France	78.8%
80	Cape Verde	77.6%
81	Iran	77.4%
82	Malaysia	77.4%
83	Cuba	77.2%
84	Cook Islands	76.9%
85	Algeria	75.8%
86	El Salvador	75.5%
87	Russia	75.3%
88	Brunei	75.0%
89	Finland	74.5%
90	Bulgaria	74.2%
91	Dominica	74.0%
92	Djibouti	73.0%
93	Czechia	72.9%
94	Dominican Republic	72.5%
95	Syria	72.1%
96	Bolivia	71.6%
97	Equatorial Guinea	71.6%
98	Angola	71.5%
99	Mongolia	71.1%
100	Estonia	70.7%
101	Hungary	70.7%
102	Tunisia	70.7%
103	Paraguay	70.4%
104	Iraq	69.9%
105	Austria	69.7%
106	Italy	69.7%
107	Ukraine	69.6%
108	Sao Tome and Principe	69.2%
109	Lithuania	69.1%
110	Latvia	68.6%
111	New Caledonia	68.2%
112	Botswana	68.0%
113	Nepal	67.0%
114	Cyprus	66.7%
115	China	66.3%
116	Panama	66.2%
117	Armenia	65.9%
118	Suriname	65.8%
119	Montenegro	65.6%
120	Tuvalu	65.4%
121	Gambia	65.0%
122	Ireland	64.6%
123	North Korea	64.2%
124	Congo	64.1%
125	Nigeria	63.8%
126	South Africa	63.8%
127	Ecuador	63.4%
128	Kiribati	63.4%
129	Morocco	63.1%
130	North Macedonia	62.9%
131	Thailand	62.8%
132	Serbia	62.6%
133	Kazakhstan	62.4%
134	French Polynesia	61.8%
135	Aruba	61.7%
136	Mauritania	61.5%
137	Portugal	61.5%
138	Georgia	61.2%
139	Poland	60.1%
140	Barbados	59.7%
141	Fiji	59.5%
142	Indonesia	59.4%
143	Jamaica	59.4%
144	Nicaragua	59.4%
145	Honduras	59.3%
146	Albania	58.9%
147	Ghana	58.9%
148	Azerbaijan	58.6%
149	Croatia	57.8%
150	British Virgin Islands	57.4%
151	Guatemala	56.3%
152	Liberia	56.1%
153	Slovenia	56.0%
154	Philippines	55.8%
155	Senegal	55.8%
156	Cameroon	55.7%
157	Haiti	55.6%
158	Somalia	55.1%
159	Cote d'Ivoire	54.5%
160	Trinidad and Tobago	54.0%
161	Benin	53.4%
162	Slovakia	53.2%
163	Bosnia and Herzegovina	52.7%
164	Romania	52.2%
165	Isle of Man	52.1%
166	Uzbekistan	51.0%
167	Namibia	50.9%
168	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	48.0%
169	Turkmenistan	47.1%
170	Guinea-Bissau	46.7%
171	Sierra Leone	45.9%
172	Zambia	45.9%
173	Seychelles	45.5%
174	Democratic Republic of Congo	45.1%
175	Lesotho	44.7%
176	Central African Republic	44.6%
177	Togo	44.4%
178	Moldova	43.7%
179	Bhutan	43.4%
180	Egypt	42.9%
181	Maldives	42.5%
182	Belize	41.6%
183	Cambodia	41.1%
184	Zimbabwe	40.5%
185	Laos	40.3%
186	Faroe Islands	39.6%
187	Pakistan	39.5%
188	Mauritius	39.0%
189	Vietnam	38.8%
190	Guinea	38.5%
191	Mozambique	37.2%
192	Niue	37.2%
193	Saint Helena	37.2%
194	Yemen	37.0%
195	Tanzania	36.9%
196	Grenada	36.7%
197	India	35.7%
198	Sudan	34.9%
199	Kyrgyzstan	34.7%
200	Eritrea	34.5%
201	Jersey	34.5%
202	Comoros	33.9%
203	Bangladesh	33.2%
204	Madagascar	32.9%
205	Kenya	32.2%
206	Mali	32.2%
207	Saint Kitts and Nevis	31.9%
208	Uganda	31.9%
209	Solomon Islands	31.3%
210	Rwanda	30.9%
211	Myanmar	30.6%
212	Guernsey	29.6%
213	Saint Lucia	29.1%
214	Burkina Faso	28.9%
215	East Timor	28.8%
216	Chad	27.6%
217	Eswatini	26.7%
218	Guyana	26.5%
219	Tajikistan	26.2%
220	Afghanistan	25.9%
221	Burundi	25.7%
222	Antigua and Barbuda	24.3%
223	Ethiopia	24.1%
224	Micronesia (country)	22.5%
225	Vanuatu	22.3%
226	South Sudan	21.7%
227	Tonga	21.2%
228	Sri Lanka	20.5%
229	Niger	18.4%
230	Malawi	17.6%
231	Samoa	17.5%
232	Papua New Guinea	15.8%
233	Liechtenstein	14.6%
234	Montserrat	9.0%
235	Tokelau	0.0%
236	Wallis and Futuna	0.0%

Common questions

Which country has the highest urban population share?

Anguilla, at 100.0% — the highest of all 236 countries with data.

Which country has the lowest urban population share?

Wallis and Futuna, at 0.0%, ranks lowest among the 236 countries in this list.

How many countries are ranked?

236 countries and territories with recent data are included, ordered from highest to lowest.

Where does the data come from?

UN (via Our World in Data). The ranking updates as new data is published.

Source: UN (via Our World in Data). See the data on the interactive urban population share map, or browse all country rankings.

Last updated: 3 August 2026.