demographic2025
Population living in million-plus urban agglomerations
Compare population living in million-plus urban agglomerations across 121 countries and territories using the World Bank's official 2025 fixed-year API slice.
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Key Insights
Global Average
26.8% of total population
Median: 22.8% of total population
Countries Covered
121
with available data
Highest
Hong Kong
100.0% of total population
Lowest
Ethiopia
4.4% of total population
Top 5 Countries
1Hong Kong100.0% of total population
2Singapore100.0% of total population
3Puerto Rico76.4% of total population
4Kuwait70.0% of total population
5Japan65.6% of total population
By Region
Key Findings
- •Coverage: 121 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2025.
- •Published range: 4.39698000881377 to 100 % of total population.
- •Discovery motivation: Worldwide X trends and Wikipedia attention around the World Trade Center and September 11 motivated a comparison of national population concentration in large urban agglomerations.
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Low (4.4% of total population)High (100.0% of total population)
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 26.8% of total population)
About This Statistic
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.
MapTheory uses only finite 2025 observations mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric country codes. Aggregates, missing values and other years are excluded without estimation. Discovery motivation: Worldwide X trends and Wikipedia attention around the World Trade Center and September 11 motivated a comparison of national population concentration in large urban agglomerations.
Methodology
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.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong | 100.0% of total population |
| 2 | Singapore | 100.0% of total population |
| 3 | Puerto Rico | 76.4% of total population |
| 4 | Kuwait | 70.0% of total population |
| 5 | Japan | 65.6% of total population |
| 6 | Republic of the Congo | 65.3% of total population |
| 7 | Australia | 60.7% of total population |
| 8 | United Arab Emirates | 57.5% of total population |
| 9 | Israel | 57.0% of total population |
| 10 | Uruguay | 52.8% of total population |
| 11 | Paraguay | 51.7% of total population |
| 12 | South Korea | 51.1% of total population |
| 13 | Saudi Arabia | 49.2% of total population |
| 14 | Mongolia | 48.3% of total population |
| 15 | United States of America | 47.0% of total population |
| 16 | Panama | 44.9% of total population |
| 17 | Colombia | 44.5% of total population |
| 18 | Brazil | 44.3% of total population |
| 19 | Argentina | 44.2% of total population |
| 20 | Canada | 44.0% of total population |
| 21 | Mexico | 42.7% of total population |
| 22 | Bolivia | 42.5% of total population |
| 23 | Lebanon | 40.7% of total population |
| 24 | Portugal | 40.4% of total population |
| 25 | Türkiye | 39.2% of total population |
| 26 | South Africa | 36.1% of total population |
| 27 | Armenia | 35.6% of total population |
| 28 | Chile | 35.2% of total population |
| 29 | Venezuela | 35.2% of total population |
| 30 | Peru | 33.3% of total population |
| 31 | People's Republic of China | 32.7% of total population |
| 32 | New Zealand | 32.1% of total population |
| 33 | Dominican Republic | 31.7% of total population |
| 34 | Liberia | 31.3% of total population |
| 35 | Oman | 31.0% of total population |
| 36 | Cameroon | 30.8% of total population |
| 37 | Mauritania | 30.3% of total population |
| 38 | Greece | 30.3% of total population |
| 39 | Costa Rica | 29.2% of total population |
| 40 | Ecuador | 28.8% of total population |
| 41 | Georgia | 27.6% of total population |
| 42 | United Kingdom | 27.4% of total population |
| 43 | Belgium | 26.9% of total population |
| 44 | Syrian Arab Republic | 26.5% of total population |
| 45 | Haiti | 26.3% of total population |
| 46 | Angola | 25.7% of total population |
| 47 | Spain | 25.4% of total population |
| 48 | Islamic Republic of Iran | 25.2% of total population |
| 49 | Malaysia | 25.0% of total population |
| 50 | Iraq | 24.6% of total population |
| 51 | Togo | 24.5% of total population |
| 52 | Egypt | 24.4% of total population |
| 53 | Azerbaijan | 24.4% of total population |
| 54 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 24.2% of total population |
| 55 | Finland | 24.0% of total population |
| 56 | Russian Federation | 23.9% of total population |
| 57 | Ireland | 23.7% of total population |
| 58 | Denmark | 23.3% of total population |
| 59 | France | 23.1% of total population |
| 60 | Belarus | 22.8% of total population |
| 61 | Morocco | 22.8% of total population |
| 62 | Austria | 21.8% of total population |
| 63 | Thailand | 21.7% of total population |
| 64 | Serbia | 21.6% of total population |
| 65 | Tunisia | 20.6% of total population |
| 66 | Pakistan | 20.1% of total population |
| 67 | Bulgaria | 20.0% of total population |
| 68 | Vietnam | 19.9% of total population |
| 69 | Norway | 19.9% of total population |
| 70 | Jordan | 19.7% of total population |
| 71 | Cuba | 19.7% of total population |
| 72 | Italy | 19.5% of total population |
| 73 | Ghana | 19.5% of total population |
| 74 | Senegal | 19.3% of total population |
| 75 | Hungary | 18.7% of total population |
| 76 | Cote d'Ivoire | 18.5% of total population |
| 77 | El Salvador | 17.8% of total population |
| 78 | Nigeria | 17.6% of total population |
| 79 | Guatemala | 17.3% of total population |
| 80 | Bangladesh | 17.3% of total population |
| 81 | India | 17.0% of total population |
| 82 | Sweden | 16.4% of total population |
| 83 | Kazakhstan | 16.3% of total population |
| 84 | Libya | 16.1% of total population |
| 85 | Switzerland | 16.0% of total population |
| 86 | Nicaragua | 16.0% of total population |
| 87 | Zambia | 15.8% of total population |
| 88 | Sierra Leone | 15.7% of total population |
| 89 | Honduras | 15.0% of total population |
| 90 | Guinea | 14.9% of total population |
| 91 | Philippines | 14.8% of total population |
| 92 | Burkina Faso | 14.6% of total population |
| 93 | Somalia | 14.5% of total population |
| 94 | Indonesia | 14.4% of total population |
| 95 | United Republic of Tanzania | 14.2% of total population |
| 96 | Ukraine | 14.0% of total population |
| 97 | Cambodia | 13.6% of total population |
| 98 | Myanmar | 13.5% of total population |
| 99 | Sudan | 13.1% of total population |
| 100 | Madagascar | 12.9% of total population |
| 101 | Kenya | 12.7% of total population |
| 102 | Mali | 12.6% of total population |
| 103 | Netherlands | 12.2% of total population |
| 104 | Czech Republic | 12.2% of total population |
| 105 | North Korea | 12.1% of total population |
| 106 | Afghanistan | 11.1% of total population |
| 107 | Germany | 9.7% of total population |
| 108 | Zimbabwe | 9.6% of total population |
| 109 | Romania | 9.2% of total population |
| 110 | Rwanda | 9.1% of total population |
| 111 | Mozambique | 9.0% of total population |
| 112 | Yemen | 8.4% of total population |
| 113 | Uganda | 8.3% of total population |
| 114 | Chad | 8.2% of total population |
| 115 | Uzbekistan | 7.2% of total population |
| 116 | Algeria | 6.3% of total population |
| 117 | Malawi | 6.3% of total population |
| 118 | Nepal | 5.6% of total population |
| 119 | Niger | 5.6% of total population |
| 120 | Poland | 4.9% of total population |
| 121 | Ethiopia | 4.4% of total population |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Urbanization Prospects 2018, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, publisher: UN Population Division, date published: 2018 (2025).
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