Hot countries Compared by People > Percentage living in urban areas

DEFINITION: Percentage of people living in urban areas. Data for 2003. Urban-rural classification of population in internationally published statistics follows the national census definition, which differs from one country or area to another. National definitions are usually based on criteria that may include any of the following: size of population in a locality, population density, distance between built-up areas, predominant type of economic activity, legal or administrative boundaries and urban characteristics such as specific services and facilities.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
=1	Nauru	100%	2003
=1	Guadeloupe	100%	2003
=1	Bermuda	100%	2003
=1	Singapore	100%	2003
=5	Martinique	96%	2003
=5	Kuwait	96%	2003
=7	Virgin Islands	94%	2003
=7	Western Sahara	94%	2003
9	Qatar	92%	2003
10	Reunion	91%	2003
11	Bahrain	90%	2003
12	The Bahamas	89%	2003
=13	Venezuela	88%	2003
=13	Saudi Arabia	88%	2003
15	Libya	86%	2003
=16	Gabon	84%	2003
=16	Djibouti	84%	2003
18	Brazil	83%	2003
19	Oman	78%	2003
=20	Colombia	76%	2003
=20	Suriname	76%	2003
=20	Cuba	76%	2003
=23	Trinidad and Tobago	75%	2003
=23	Mexico	75%	2003
=23	French Guiana	75%	2003
26	Dominica	72%	2003
27	Cook Islands	70%	2003
28	Iraq	67%	2003
29	Marshall Islands	66%	2003
30	Malaysia	64%	2003
31	Bolivia	63%	2003
=32	Ecuador	62%	2003
=32	Mauritania	62%	2003
=34	Costa Rica	61%	2003
=34	Philippines	61%	2003
=34	New Caledonia	61%	2003
37	El Salvador	60%	2003
=38	Dominican Republic	59%	2003
=38	Algeria	59%	2003
40	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	58%	2003
=41	Panama	57%	2003
=41	Paraguay	57%	2003
=41	Nicaragua	57%	2003
44	Cape Verde	56%	2003
45	Tuvalu	55%	2003
=46	Barbados	52%	2003
=46	Fiji	52%	2003
=46	Botswana	52%	2003
=46	Jamaica	52%	2003
50	Cameroon	51%	2003
=51	Senegal	50%	2003
=51	Seychelles	50%	2003
=53	Belize	48%	2003
=53	Equatorial Guinea	48%	2003
=55	Liberia	47%	2003
=55	Nigeria	47%	2003
=55	Kiribati	47%	2003
=58	Indonesia	46%	2003
=58	Guatemala	46%	2003
=58	Honduras	46%	2003
=61	Ghana	45%	2003
=61	Benin	45%	2003
63	Mauritius	43%	2003
64	Egypt	42%	2003
65	Grenada	41%	2003
=66	Sierra Leone	39%	2003
=66	Sudan	39%	2003
=66	Kenya	39%	2003
=69	Antigua and Barbuda	38%	2003
=69	Guyana	38%	2003
71	Haiti	37%	2003
=72	Angola	36%	2003
=72	Mozambique	36%	2003
=72	Zambia	36%	2003
=75	Tanzania	35%	2003
=75	Guinea	35%	2003
=75	Zimbabwe	35%	2003
=75	Somalia	35%	2003
=75	Togo	35%	2003
=75	Comoros	35%	2003
=81	Pakistan	34%	2003
=81	Guinea-Bissau	34%	2003
83	Tonga	33%	2003
=84	Thailand	32%	2003
=84	Mali	32%	2003
=84	Democratic Republic of the Congo	32%	2003
87	Saint Lucia	30%	2003
=88	Maldives	29%	2003
=88	Burma	29%	2003
90	India	28%	2003
91	Madagascar	27%	2003
=92	Yemen	26%	2003
=92	Vietnam	26%	2003
94	Chad	25%	2003
=95	Swaziland	24%	2003
=95	Bangladesh	24%	2003
=97	Samoa	22%	2003
=97	Niger	22%	2003
99	Sri Lanka	21%	2003
100	Eritrea	20%	2003
101	Cambodia	19%	2003
102	Burkina Faso	18%	2003
=103	Ethiopia	16%	2003
=103	Malawi	16%	2003
=103	Solomon Islands	16%	2003
106	Papua New Guinea	13%	2003
107	Uganda	12%	2003

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