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Largest city share of urban population

Name: Largest city share of urban population
Creator: World Development Indicators
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, daily-10, urbanization, en.urb.lcty.ur.zs

Compare largest city share of urban population across 153 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2025 official-source dataset.

Source: World Development Indicators•153 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

32.9% of urban population

Median: 29.5% of urban population

Countries Covered

153

with available data

Highest

Hong Kong

100.0% of urban population

Lowest

People's Republic of China

3.3% of urban population

Top 5 Countries

1Hong Kong100.0% of urban population

2Macao100.0% of urban population

3Singapore100.0% of urban population

4Eritrea92.5% of urban population

5Puerto Rico81.0% of urban population

By Region

Key Findings

•Coverage: 153 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2025.
•Published range: 3.2665132513396 to 100 % of urban population.
•Discovery motivation: X/Twitter Times Square, NYPD and worldwide city topics.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (3.3% of urban population)High (100.0% of urban population)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 32.9% of urban population)

About This Statistic

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

MapTheory retains one fixed reference year and unit. Only finite values mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are included; aggregates, missing values and non-ISO geographies are excluded. No value is estimated, imputed or carried across years.

Methodology

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

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Hong Kong	100.0% of urban population
2	Macao	100.0% of urban population
3	Singapore	100.0% of urban population
4	Eritrea	92.5% of urban population
5	Puerto Rico	81.0% of urban population
6	Trinidad and Tobago	74.0% of urban population
7	Paraguay	73.5% of urban population
8	Djibouti	71.3% of urban population
9	Kuwait	70.0% of urban population
10	Panama	67.9% of urban population
11	Mongolia	67.9% of urban population
12	Republic of the Congo	67.7% of urban population
13	Guinea-Bissau	67.6% of urban population
14	Liberia	55.8% of urban population
15	Togo	55.3% of urban population
16	Uruguay	55.2% of urban population
17	The Republic of North Macedonia	54.2% of urban population
18	Armenia	54.1% of urban population
19	Burkina Faso	50.6% of urban population
20	Mauritania	49.4% of urban population
21	Israel	49.3% of urban population
22	Latvia	48.6% of urban population
23	Estonia	47.4% of urban population
24	Haiti	47.3% of urban population
25	Moldova, Republic of	46.9% of urban population
26	Bahrain	46.4% of urban population
27	Portugal	45.6% of urban population
28	Egypt	45.4% of urban population
29	Georgia	45.1% of urban population
30	Kyrgyzstan	45.1% of urban population
31	Lebanon	44.7% of urban population
32	Dominican Republic	43.7% of urban population
33	Afghanistan	42.9% of urban population
34	Bangladesh	42.2% of urban population
35	Azerbaijan	41.5% of urban population
36	Central African Republic	41.4% of urban population
37	Chile	39.5% of urban population
38	Madagascar	39.3% of urban population
39	Mali	39.2% of urban population
40	Oman	39.0% of urban population
41	Peru	38.9% of urban population
42	Albania	38.7% of urban population
43	Guinea	38.7% of urban population
44	New Zealand	38.3% of urban population
45	Greece	38.2% of urban population
46	Gabon	37.7% of urban population
47	Sudan	37.4% of urban population
48	Argentina	37.2% of urban population
49	Equatorial Guinea	37.0% of urban population
50	Tajikistan	36.8% of urban population
51	Ireland	36.7% of urban population
52	Costa Rica	36.6% of urban population
53	Burundi	36.5% of urban population
54	Angola	35.9% of urban population
55	Jamaica	35.8% of urban population
56	Malawi	35.6% of urban population
57	Democratic Republic of the Congo	34.9% of urban population
58	Senegal	34.7% of urban population
59	Myanmar	34.7% of urban population
60	Zambia	34.5% of urban population
61	Serbia	34.4% of urban population
62	Sierra Leone	34.3% of urban population
63	Cote d'Ivoire	33.9% of urban population
64	Cambodia	33.1% of urban population
65	United Republic of Tanzania	32.9% of urban population
66	Japan	32.5% of urban population
67	Namibia	32.5% of urban population
68	Malaysia	32.3% of urban population
69	Finland	32.2% of urban population
70	United Arab Emirates	31.3% of urban population
71	Austria	31.2% of urban population
72	Kenya	31.1% of urban population
73	Guatemala	30.7% of urban population
74	Croatia	30.5% of urban population
75	Niger	30.4% of urban population
76	Chad	29.8% of urban population
77	Rwanda	29.5% of urban population
78	Cameroon	29.2% of urban population
79	Tunisia	29.2% of urban population
80	Belarus	28.7% of urban population
81	Qatar	28.2% of urban population
82	Colombia	28.0% of urban population
83	Ecuador	28.0% of urban population
84	Republic of The Gambia	27.8% of urban population
85	Lithuania	27.1% of urban population
86	Bulgaria	27.0% of urban population
87	Nicaragua	26.9% of urban population
88	Hungary	26.5% of urban population
89	Somalia	26.3% of urban population
90	Denmark	26.2% of urban population
91	Turkmenistan	26.2% of urban population
92	Uganda	26.0% of urban population
93	Cuba	25.5% of urban population
94	Papua New Guinea	25.4% of urban population
95	Saudi Arabia	25.4% of urban population
96	Thailand	25.3% of urban population
97	Honduras	25.3% of urban population
98	Vietnam	24.9% of urban population
99	Iraq	24.8% of urban population
100	South Korea	23.9% of urban population
101	Lao People's Democratic Republic	23.8% of urban population
102	Norway	23.8% of urban population
103	Zimbabwe	23.8% of urban population
104	El Salvador	23.6% of urban population
105	Philippines	23.4% of urban population
106	Yemen	22.8% of urban population
107	Australia	22.3% of urban population
108	Bolivia	22.2% of urban population
109	Mexico	21.5% of urban population
110	Jordan	21.2% of urban population
111	Türkiye	21.1% of urban population
112	Bosnia and Herzegovina	21.1% of urban population
113	France	20.9% of urban population
114	Belgium	20.5% of urban population
115	Ghana	19.5% of urban population
116	South Sudan	18.9% of urban population
117	North Korea	18.8% of urban population
118	Canada	18.8% of urban population
119	Switzerland	18.7% of urban population
120	Sweden	18.4% of urban population
121	Libya	18.4% of urban population
122	Ethiopia	18.2% of urban population
123	Pakistan	17.9% of urban population
124	Romania	17.7% of urban population
125	State of Palestine	17.4% of urban population
126	Benin	17.4% of urban population
127	Spain	17.1% of urban population
128	United Kingdom	17.0% of urban population
129	Czech Republic	16.8% of urban population
130	Morocco	16.5% of urban population
131	Kazakhstan	15.7% of urban population
132	South Africa	15.6% of urban population
133	Slovakia	15.4% of urban population
134	Syrian Arab Republic	15.2% of urban population
135	Mozambique	15.0% of urban population
136	Sri Lanka	14.6% of urban population
137	Uzbekistan	14.1% of urban population
138	Islamic Republic of Iran	13.6% of urban population
139	Brazil	12.3% of urban population
140	Venezuela	11.8% of urban population
141	Russian Federation	11.8% of urban population
142	Nigeria	11.3% of urban population
143	Ukraine	11.1% of urban population
144	Italy	10.6% of urban population
145	Nepal	8.4% of urban population
146	Algeria	8.4% of urban population
147	Poland	8.2% of urban population
148	United States of America	7.0% of urban population
149	Indonesia	6.9% of urban population
150	Netherlands	6.9% of urban population
151	India	6.6% of urban population
152	Germany	5.2% of urban population
153	People's Republic of China	3.3% of urban population

Showing 153 of 153 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Development Indicators (2025).

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