Urban population

Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. The data are collected and smoothed by United Nations Population Division.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
215
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, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, note: United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects, National definitions, publisher: UN Population Division

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan202525.94percent
Albania202558.87percent
Algeria202575.82percent
American Samoa202580.51percent
Andorra202588.95percent
Angola202571.46percent
Antigua and Barbuda202524.33percent
Argentina202592.35percent
Armenia202565.93percent
Aruba202561.75percent

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