Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million

Population in urban agglomerations of more than one million is the percentage of a country's population living in metropolitan areas that in 2018 had a population of more than one million people.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
121
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
Afghanistan202511.12percent
Algeria20256.33percent
Angola202525.69percent
Argentina202544.23percent
Armenia202535.64percent
Australia202560.73percent
Austria202521.78percent
Azerbaijan202524.36percent
Bangladesh202517.25percent
Belarus202522.79percent

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