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Japan - Urban Population 2022

Name: Japan Urban Population 2022
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

91.98% +0.10% from 2021 Global rank: 191st

Japan's urban population was 91.98% in 2022, increased +0.10% from 91.87% in 2021. This was the 191st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2022▾

Urban Population by Country - 2022
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Liechtenstein	14.69%	0.0%
2nd	Papua New Guinea	14.74%	2.1%
3rd	Malawi	16.71%	1.4%
4th	Niger	17.48%	1.4%
5th	Samoa	17.50%	-0.4%
6th	Sri Lanka	19.99%	0.8%
7th	South Sudan	20.78%	1.4%
8th	Tonga	21.15%	-0.5%
9th	Vanuatu	22.25%	0.0%
10th	Burundi	22.32%	5.7%
11th	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.41%	0.1%
12th	Antigua and Barbuda	24.51%	-0.3%
13th	Afghanistan	25.39%	0.2%
14th	Eswatini	25.40%	1.5%
15th	Chad	25.76%	2.1%
16th	Tajikistan	26.20%	0.0%
17th	Guyana	26.45%	0.0%
18th	Burkina Faso	27.28%	1.7%
19th	Rwanda	27.78%	6.4%
20th	Timor-Leste	28.59%	-0.7%
21st	St. Lucia	29.10%	6.0%
22nd	Solomon Islands	29.35%	2.3%
23rd	Uganda	29.93%	2.4%
24th	Myanmar	30.31%	0.2%
25th	Mali	30.40%	2.3%
26th	Kenya	31.43%	0.5%
27th	Madagascar	31.54%	1.4%
28th	St. Kitts and Nevis	31.62%	0.2%
29th	Bangladesh	31.67%	0.9%
30th	Comoros	32.77%	1.1%
31st	Channel Islands	32.79%	-0.1%
32nd	Kyrgyz Republic	34.70%	-0.1%
33rd	Sudan	34.72%	0.2%
34th	India	34.76%	0.9%
35th	Tanzania	34.82%	1.4%
36th	Eritrea	34.85%	-0.4%
37th	Mozambique	35.05%	1.8%
38th	Yemen, Republic of	36.32%	0.7%
39th	Grenada	36.37%	0.2%
40th	Guinea	37.24%	1.1%
41st	Viet Nam	37.55%	2.4%
42nd	Lao PDR	38.07%	2.0%
43rd	Pakistan	38.37%	1.2%
44th	Zimbabwe	38.71%	2.2%
45th	Faroe Islands	39.00%	0.5%
46th	Mauritius	39.00%	-0.2%
47th	Cambodia	40.37%	0.7%
48th	Bhutan	40.94%	1.6%
49th	Maldives	41.06%	0.8%
50th	Lesotho	41.67%	2.5%
51st	Belize	42.14%	-0.6%
52nd	Moldova	42.40%	1.4%
53rd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.63%	0.2%
54th	Togo	42.73%	1.0%
55th	Central African Republic	43.28%	1.0%
56th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	44.00%	0.9%
57th	Sierra Leone	44.27%	1.2%
58th	Zambia	44.60%	0.8%
59th	Seychelles	44.91%	0.7%
60th	Guinea-Bissau	45.16%	1.0%
61st	Turkmenistan	47.06%	0.0%
62nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	47.59%	0.3%
63rd	Kosovo	47.80%	2.8%
64th	Namibia	49.53%	1.0%
65th	Benin	50.96%	1.5%
66th	Uzbekistan	50.98%	0.1%
67th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.02%	1.1%
68th	Romania	52.16%	-0.1%
69th	Isle of Man	52.20%	0.0%
70th	Côte d'Ivoire	52.85%	1.0%
71st	Slovak Republic	53.19%	0.0%
72nd	Senegal	53.44%	2.3%
73rd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	53.50%	1.1%
74th	Haiti	53.85%	1.1%
75th	Trinidad and Tobago	53.95%	0.0%
76th	Liberia	54.46%	1.0%
77th	Philippines	54.79%	0.6%
78th	British Virgin Islands	54.80%	1.5%
79th	Cameroon	54.85%	0.5%
80th	Guatemala	55.26%	0.6%
81st	Slovenia	55.34%	0.1%
82nd	Croatia	57.00%	0.4%
83rd	Ghana	57.25%	1.0%
84th	Indonesia	57.49%	1.1%
85th	Honduras	57.84%	0.8%
86th	Albania	57.86%	0.6%
87th	Jamaica	57.99%	0.8%
88th	Fiji	58.14%	0.8%
89th	Azerbaijan	58.44%	0.1%
90th	Mauritania	58.81%	1.6%
91st	Nicaragua	59.00%	0.2%
92nd	Barbados	59.35%	0.1%
93rd	Thailand	59.74%	2.1%
94th	Poland	59.83%	0.0%
95th	Georgia	60.01%	1.0%
96th	Kiribati	60.57%	1.6%
97th	Portugal	61.13%	0.1%
98th	Nigeria	61.37%	1.3%
99th	Kazakhstan	61.44%	0.7%
100th	French Polynesia	61.69%	-0.1%
101st	Aruba	61.88%	-0.1%
102nd	Serbia	61.90%	0.9%
103rd	North Macedonia	61.95%	0.4%
104th	Morocco	62.51%	0.3%
105th	Ecuador	63.09%	0.0%
106th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	63.23%	0.5%
107th	Gambia, The	63.29%	0.8%
108th	Tuvalu	63.31%	1.1%
109th	South Africa	63.48%	0.0%
110th	Congo, Republic of	63.64%	0.0%
111th	Ireland	63.89%	0.3%
112th	China	65.22%	0.8%
113th	Montenegro	65.40%	0.1%
114th	Armenia	65.56%	0.3%
115th	Panama	65.82%	0.0%
116th	Suriname	65.90%	-0.1%
117th	Nepal	66.30%	0.2%
118th	Botswana	66.59%	0.1%
119th	Cyprus	66.67%	0.0%
120th	New Caledonia	67.57%	0.2%
121st	Latvia	68.26%	0.1%
122nd	Lithuania	68.29%	0.1%
123rd	São Tomé and Principe	68.37%	0.3%
124th	Paraguay	68.64%	2.0%
125th	Austria	69.00%	0.3%
126th	Angola	69.05%	1.2%
127th	Ukraine	69.42%	0.0%
128th	Italy	69.48%	0.0%
129th	Tunisia	69.71%	0.4%
130th	Mongolia	69.78%	0.8%
131st	Iraq	69.87%	0.0%
132nd	Hungary	70.16%	-0.1%
133rd	Estonia	70.49%	0.4%
134th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	70.64%	0.4%
135th	Equatorial Guinea	70.89%	0.4%
136th	Dominican Republic	72.42%	-0.7%
137th	Djibouti	72.61%	0.4%
138th	Syrian Arab Republic	72.61%	-0.5%
139th	Dominica	72.68%	0.6%
140th	Czechia	72.70%	0.0%
141st	Bulgaria	73.48%	0.2%
142nd	Finland	73.70%	0.4%
143rd	El Salvador	74.15%	0.6%
144th	Algeria	74.18%	0.8%
145th	European Union	74.77%	0.2%
146th	Brunei Darussalam	74.78%	0.0%
147th	Russian Federation	74.85%	0.1%
148th	Cabo Verde	75.03%	1.2%
149th	Malaysia	75.97%	0.6%
150th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	76.33%	0.4%
151st	Cuba	77.11%	0.0%
152nd	Marshall Islands	77.99%	0.5%
153rd	Colombia	78.05%	0.3%
154th	Costa Rica	78.44%	0.6%
155th	Belarus	78.47%	0.4%
156th	Greece	78.55%	0.2%
157th	France	78.76%	0.0%
158th	Palau	79.11%	0.0%
159th	Mexico	79.20%	0.3%
160th	Spain	79.95%	0.2%
161st	Oman	80.01%	-0.1%
162nd	United States	80.03%	0.0%
163rd	Korea	81.16%	0.0%
164th	Bahamas, The	81.32%	-0.2%
165th	Germany	81.79%	0.2%
166th	American Samoa	81.79%	-0.5%
167th	Canada	82.35%	0.2%
168th	Norway	82.96%	0.1%
169th	United Kingdom	83.08%	0.1%
170th	New Zealand	83.85%	0.0%
171st	Saudi Arabia	84.13%	0.2%
172nd	Peru	84.37%	0.5%
173rd	Switzerland	84.92%	0.9%
174th	United Arab Emirates	85.51%	0.2%
175th	West Bank and Gaza	86.60%	0.3%
176th	Australia	87.33%	0.1%
177th	Brazil	87.35%	0.2%
178th	Belgium	87.49%	0.1%
179th	Greenland	87.80%	0.3%
180th	Libya	87.85%	0.0%
181st	Denmark	88.39%	0.1%
182nd	Sweden	88.40%	0.3%
183rd	Chile	88.64%	0.2%
184th	Andorra	88.75%	0.1%
185th	Türkiye	89.04%	-0.2%
186th	Lebanon	90.21%	0.3%
187th	Gabon	91.22%	0.5%
188th	Curaçao	91.40%	0.0%
189th	Israel	91.50%	0.0%
190th	Northern Mariana Islands	91.88%	0.1%
191st	Japan	91.98%	0.1%
192nd	Argentina	92.11%	0.1%
193rd	Jordan	92.40%	0.3%
194th	Turks and Caicos Islands	93.69%	0.3%
195th	Guam	94.11%	0.0%
196th	Puerto Rico (US)	94.11%	0.1%
197th	Iceland	94.18%	0.0%
198th	Luxembourg	94.76%	0.2%
199th	Netherlands	94.99%	0.4%
200th	Virgin Islands (US)	95.22%	0.1%
201st	Uruguay	95.50%	0.1%
202nd	Malta	95.60%	0.1%
203rd	San Marino	97.11%	0.0%
204th	Qatar	99.24%	0.0%
205th	Bahrain	100.00%	0.0%
206th	Bermuda	100.00%	0.0%
207th	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
208th	Gibraltar	100.00%	0.0%
209th	Hong Kong SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
210th	Kuwait	100.00%	0.0%
211th	Macao SAR, China	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 Japan's urban population in 2022?▾

Japan's urban population in 2022 was 91.98%. This ranked 191st globally.

How did Japan's urban population change in 2022?▾

Japan's urban population increased by 0.1% in 2022 compared to 2021.

Which country had the highest urban population in 2022?▾

Bahrain had the highest urban population in 2022 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Japan in 2022?▾

The urban population of Japan in 2022 was 91.98%. This ranked 191st globally.

How does 2022 compare to 2021 for Japan's urban population?▾

Japan's urban population went from 91.87% in 2021 to 91.98% in 2022, a 0.1% increase.

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