Population in the largest city

Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
153
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    United Nations

    World Urbanization Prospects 2018, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, publisher: UN Population Division, date published: 2018

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan202542.88percent
Albania202538.73percent
Algeria20258.35percent
Angola202535.94percent
Argentina202537.20percent
Armenia202554.07percent
Australia202522.26percent
Austria202531.24percent
Azerbaijan202541.55percent
Bahrain202546.43percent

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