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French Polynesia - Urban Population 1979

Name: French Polynesia Urban Population 1979
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

59.12% −0.04% from 1978 Global rank: 141st

French Polynesia's urban population was 59.12% in 1979, decreased +0.04% from 59.16% in 1978. This was the 141st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1979▾

Urban Population by Country - 1979
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	4.18%	3.9%
2nd	Rwanda	4.75%	1.7%
3rd	Uganda	6.65%	1.2%
4th	Burkina Faso	7.81%	7.3%
5th	South Sudan	8.49%	0.0%
6th	Malawi	8.92%	2.7%
7th	Cambodia	9.23%	58.6%
8th	Solomon Islands	10.44%	3.9%
9th	Bhutan	11.17%	10.6%
10th	Lesotho	11.23%	0.1%
11th	Yemen, Republic of	11.59%	7.1%
12th	Lao PDR	12.12%	2.2%
13th	Mozambique	12.50%	5.3%
14th	Papua New Guinea	13.07%	-0.2%
15th	Niger	13.42%	2.2%
16th	Nepal	13.43%	11.5%
17th	Mali	13.75%	2.2%
18th	Bangladesh	13.75%	8.3%
19th	Eritrea	14.20%	1.1%
20th	Botswana	14.20%	4.6%
21st	Tanzania	14.25%	4.1%
22nd	Vanuatu	14.37%	2.8%
23rd	Afghanistan	15.44%	2.0%
24th	Kenya	15.48%	2.9%
25th	Timor-Leste	16.16%	3.1%
26th	Guinea-Bissau	16.68%	1.9%
27th	Thailand	16.83%	2.0%
28th	Eswatini	17.81%	5.7%
29th	Madagascar	18.11%	2.2%
30th	Liechtenstein	18.29%	-0.1%
31st	Chad	18.75%	2.0%
32nd	China	18.96%	5.8%
33rd	Viet Nam	19.19%	-0.3%
34th	Sudan	19.64%	0.8%
35th	Tonga	20.51%	0.4%
36th	Haiti	20.54%	0.1%
37th	Samoa	21.19%	0.1%
38th	Indonesia	21.47%	3.2%
39th	British Virgin Islands	21.75%	3.6%
40th	Sri Lanka	21.75%	-0.6%
41st	Zimbabwe	21.80%	2.4%
42nd	Maldives	21.97%	4.1%
43rd	Comoros	22.82%	1.6%
44th	Cabo Verde	22.86%	2.1%
45th	Angola	22.87%	5.6%
46th	India	23.17%	1.7%
47th	Guinea	24.14%	2.8%
48th	Togo	24.40%	1.2%
49th	Myanmar	24.48%	0.3%
50th	Gambia, The	25.56%	7.3%
51st	Namibia	25.56%	0.3%
52nd	St. Lucia	26.00%	1.7%
53rd	Equatorial Guinea	26.25%	0.0%
54th	Micronesia, Federated States of	26.44%	0.3%
55th	Benin	26.50%	3.2%
56th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	26.54%	1.2%
57th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	26.62%	0.9%
58th	Nigeria	26.66%	2.9%
59th	Mauritania	26.72%	7.2%
60th	Pakistan	27.77%	1.3%
61st	Tuvalu	29.03%	7.3%
62nd	Guyana	29.51%	-0.1%
63rd	Sierra Leone	29.77%	1.6%
64th	Ghana	30.83%	0.6%
65th	Cameroon	31.41%	3.2%
66th	Faroe Islands	31.47%	0.2%
67th	Kosovo	31.61%	1.7%
68th	Kiribati	32.12%	1.7%
69th	Channel Islands	32.12%	-0.7%
70th	Grenada	32.87%	0.2%
71st	São Tomé and Principe	32.94%	1.0%
72nd	Guatemala	33.16%	-1.6%
73rd	Albania	33.55%	0.6%
74th	Malaysia	33.57%	1.9%
75th	Philippines	33.66%	0.6%
76th	Antigua and Barbuda	34.41%	0.4%
77th	Tajikistan	34.46%	-0.7%
78th	Honduras	34.49%	1.7%
79th	Liberia	34.79%	3.2%
80th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	35.17%	2.1%
81st	Senegal	35.58%	1.1%
82nd	Central African Republic	35.70%	0.7%
83rd	St. Kitts and Nevis	35.88%	0.2%
84th	Côte d'Ivoire	36.86%	1.3%
85th	Fiji	37.63%	0.4%
86th	Virgin Islands (US)	37.65%	5.5%
87th	Kyrgyz Republic	38.29%	0.0%
88th	Türkiye	38.95%	2.3%
89th	Moldova	39.47%	1.7%
90th	Zambia	39.70%	1.1%
91st	Morocco	40.37%	1.8%
92nd	Portugal	40.61%	1.6%
93rd	Paraguay	40.75%	1.5%
94th	Uzbekistan	40.92%	0.7%
95th	Algeria	41.95%	1.7%
96th	El Salvador	42.30%	1.2%
97th	Mauritius	42.42%	-0.7%
98th	Costa Rica	42.61%	0.7%
99th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	43.15%	1.9%
100th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	43.48%	0.1%
101st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	43.86%	0.1%
102nd	Montenegro	44.11%	2.4%
103rd	Congo, Republic of	45.26%	3.4%
104th	Dominica	45.43%	2.5%
105th	Serbia	45.73%	1.2%
106th	Ecuador	45.93%	2.3%
107th	Syrian Arab Republic	46.44%	0.7%
108th	Croatia	46.66%	1.4%
109th	Jamaica	46.76%	1.0%
110th	Turkmenistan	47.32%	-0.2%
111th	Slovenia	47.71%	2.1%
112th	South Africa	48.31%	0.2%
113th	Romania	49.04%	1.3%
114th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	49.21%	1.5%
115th	Seychelles	49.40%	0.0%
116th	Panama	49.50%	0.5%
117th	Isle of Man	50.63%	-0.6%
118th	Dominican Republic	50.66%	1.9%
119th	Nicaragua	50.83%	0.6%
120th	Slovak Republic	50.96%	1.9%
121st	Tunisia	51.30%	0.5%
122nd	Mongolia	51.55%	1.3%
123rd	Trinidad and Tobago	51.83%	1.5%
124th	Belize	51.98%	-0.6%
125th	Georgia	51.99%	0.9%
126th	Azerbaijan	52.72%	-0.4%
127th	North Macedonia	53.07%	0.9%
128th	Oman	53.20%	4.2%
129th	Gabon	53.25%	4.2%
130th	Kazakhstan	53.67%	0.7%
131st	Austria	54.25%	0.7%
132nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	54.44%	1.0%
133rd	Korea	54.90%	3.4%
134th	Ireland	55.20%	0.5%
135th	Belarus	55.41%	1.9%
136th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	56.85%	0.1%
137th	New Caledonia	57.31%	0.8%
138th	Hungary	57.63%	0.5%
139th	Poland	57.74%	0.9%
140th	Jordan	58.76%	1.7%
141st	French Polynesia	59.12%	-0.1%
142nd	Cyprus	59.45%	3.3%
143rd	Marshall Islands	59.77%	-0.5%
144th	Brunei Darussalam	59.89%	-0.8%
145th	Lithuania	60.46%	1.8%
146th	Switzerland	60.84%	0.7%
147th	Bulgaria	61.48%	1.6%
148th	Ukraine	61.62%	1.0%
149th	West Bank and Gaza	61.66%	0.7%
150th	Palau	62.12%	0.5%
151st	American Samoa	62.67%	1.5%
152nd	Finland	62.97%	0.1%
153rd	Barbados	63.11%	1.8%
154th	Peru	64.17%	0.9%
155th	Colombia	64.25%	0.8%
156th	Netherlands	64.81%	0.3%
157th	Saudi Arabia	64.89%	2.5%
158th	Iraq	65.13%	1.3%
159th	Mexico	65.69%	1.0%
160th	Armenia	65.89%	0.5%
161st	Puerto Rico (US)	65.92%	1.7%
162nd	Aruba	65.98%	0.3%
163rd	Suriname	66.04%	0.0%
164th	Brazil	66.30%	2.0%
165th	Italy	66.74%	0.2%
166th	Cuba	67.72%	1.3%
167th	European Union	67.73%	0.4%
168th	Latvia	67.99%	0.6%
169th	Libya	69.02%	2.4%
170th	Greece	69.13%	0.6%
171st	Russian Federation	69.34%	0.8%
172nd	Estonia	69.61%	0.6%
173rd	Czechia	70.12%	0.6%
174th	Norway	70.40%	0.4%
175th	Spain	71.09%	0.7%
176th	Bahamas, The	72.31%	1.2%
177th	Djibouti	72.58%	1.1%
178th	Lebanon	73.10%	2.0%
179th	France	73.21%	0.0%
180th	United States	73.71%	0.0%
181st	Belgium	74.32%	0.5%
182nd	Canada	75.62%	0.1%
183rd	Greenland	75.83%	0.9%
184th	Japan	76.12%	0.1%
185th	United Kingdom	78.46%	0.2%
186th	San Marino	79.55%	2.6%
187th	Germany	79.90%	0.0%
188th	Luxembourg	79.99%	0.6%
189th	Bahrain	80.05%	0.5%
190th	Curaçao	80.98%	0.3%
191st	Chile	81.25%	0.6%
192nd	United Arab Emirates	81.79%	-1.0%
193rd	Qatar	82.22%	0.8%
194th	Argentina	82.48%	0.5%
195th	Sweden	83.06%	0.1%
196th	New Zealand	83.30%	0.1%
197th	Denmark	83.54%	0.3%
198th	Uruguay	84.52%	0.5%
199th	Australia	85.85%	-0.1%
200th	Northern Mariana Islands	86.64%	0.1%
201st	Iceland	87.88%	0.2%
202nd	Israel	88.49%	0.4%
203rd	Guam	88.78%	0.0%
204th	Malta	89.55%	0.0%
205th	Hong Kong SAR, China	91.12%	0.4%
206th	Andorra	91.92%	1.3%
207th	Kuwait	93.90%	1.0%
208th	Macao SAR, China	98.36%	0.1%
209th	Bermuda	100.00%	0.0%
210th	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
211th	Gibraltar	100.00%	0.0%
212th	St. Martin (French part)	100.00%	0.0%
213th	Monaco	100.00%	0.0%
214th	Nauru	100.00%	0.0%
215th	Singapore	100.00%	0.0%
216th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	100.00%	0.0%

FAQ

What was French Polynesia's urban population in 1979?▾

French Polynesia's urban population in 1979 was 59.12%. This ranked 141st globally.

How did French Polynesia's urban population change in 1979?▾

French Polynesia's urban population decreased by 0.1% in 1979 compared to 1978.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1979?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1979 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of French Polynesia in 1979?▾

The urban population of French Polynesia in 1979 was 59.12%. This ranked 141st globally.

How does 1979 compare to 1978 for French Polynesia's urban population?▾

French Polynesia's urban population went from 59.16% in 1978 to 59.12% in 1979, a 0.1% decrease.

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