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Kenya - Urban Population 2005

Name: Kenya Urban Population 2005
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

27.27% +1.85% from 2004 Global rank: 28th

Kenya's urban population was 27.27% in 2005, increased +1.85% from 25.41% in 2004. This was the 28th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2005▾

Urban Population by Country - 2005
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	9.18%	2.9%
2nd	Papua New Guinea	13.07%	-0.2%
3rd	Uganda	13.79%	5.1%
4th	Liechtenstein	14.59%	-0.4%
5th	Malawi	15.10%	0.5%
6th	Sri Lanka	15.17%	1.7%
7th	Niger	16.27%	0.0%
8th	South Sudan	16.87%	0.7%
9th	Rwanda	16.91%	0.0%
10th	Solomon Islands	17.60%	2.5%
11th	Cambodia	19.09%	0.6%
12th	Afghanistan	19.71%	1.6%
13th	Mali	20.87%	2.0%
14th	Samoa	21.24%	-1.4%
15th	Chad	21.75%	0.1%
16th	Burkina Faso	22.02%	3.2%
17th	Eswatini	22.21%	-0.4%
18th	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.33%	0.0%
19th	Lesotho	22.53%	3.4%
20th	Vanuatu	23.00%	1.2%
21st	Tonga	23.15%	0.1%
22nd	St. Lucia	23.54%	-5.2%
23rd	Tanzania	24.71%	2.6%
24th	Bangladesh	25.48%	1.9%
25th	Timor-Leste	26.31%	2.4%
26th	Madagascar	26.47%	1.1%
27th	Tajikistan	26.53%	0.0%
28th	Kenya	27.27%	7.3%
29th	Lao PDR	27.32%	3.0%
30th	Viet Nam	27.43%	2.3%
31st	Guyana	27.78%	-1.0%
32nd	Comoros	28.02%	0.2%
33rd	Myanmar	28.39%	0.6%
34th	Yemen, Republic of	28.85%	1.4%
35th	India	29.09%	1.1%
36th	Antigua and Barbuda	29.17%	-2.4%
37th	Mozambique	30.01%	0.5%
38th	Bhutan	30.94%	2.1%
39th	Channel Islands	31.11%	0.7%
40th	St. Kitts and Nevis	31.98%	-0.5%
41st	Guinea	32.40%	0.9%
42nd	Sudan	32.46%	0.0%
43rd	Zimbabwe	32.65%	0.1%
44th	Pakistan	33.92%	0.5%
45th	Maldives	34.07%	3.7%
46th	Eritrea	35.10%	0.5%
47th	Kyrgyz Republic	35.30%	0.0%
48th	Togo	35.35%	1.3%
49th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	35.47%	1.4%
50th	Grenada	35.92%	0.0%
51st	Faroe Islands	36.33%	0.0%
52nd	Namibia	36.59%	3.0%
53rd	Sierra Leone	36.85%	0.8%
54th	Zambia	37.30%	1.3%
55th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	37.40%	1.1%
56th	Kosovo	37.63%	0.1%
57th	Central African Republic	38.04%	0.2%
58th	Thailand	38.13%	3.7%
59th	Guinea-Bissau	38.38%	0.8%
60th	Moldova	39.37%	-0.2%
61st	Benin	40.31%	1.1%
62nd	Mauritania	40.41%	2.1%
63rd	Mauritius	41.14%	-0.4%
64th	Philippines	41.33%	1.2%
65th	Senegal	41.91%	0.7%
66th	Equatorial Guinea	42.28%	3.3%
67th	Haiti	42.58%	1.7%
68th	Seychelles	42.85%	-0.2%
69th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.96%	0.1%
70th	China	42.99%	2.9%
71st	Kiribati	43.54%	0.0%
72nd	British Virgin Islands	43.74%	1.1%
73rd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	44.16%	0.7%
74th	Côte d'Ivoire	45.08%	0.9%
75th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	45.47%	0.3%
76th	Nepal	45.51%	9.4%
77th	Liberia	45.85%	0.9%
78th	Albania	45.99%	2.3%
79th	Indonesia	46.24%	1.7%
80th	Belize	46.73%	-0.6%
81st	Turkmenistan	46.77%	0.1%
82nd	Ghana	47.45%	1.5%
83rd	Nigeria	47.57%	1.9%
84th	Guatemala	48.06%	1.5%
85th	Honduras	48.17%	1.3%
86th	Cameroon	48.58%	0.8%
87th	Tuvalu	49.42%	2.1%
88th	Fiji	49.84%	0.7%
89th	Slovenia	50.65%	-0.1%
90th	Uzbekistan	51.08%	1.0%
91st	Isle of Man	51.16%	-0.3%
92nd	Gambia, The	52.36%	1.7%
93rd	Azerbaijan	52.50%	0.4%
94th	Jamaica	52.77%	0.4%
95th	Georgia	53.00%	0.5%
96th	Romania	53.07%	0.3%
97th	Syrian Arab Republic	53.82%	0.6%
98th	Kazakhstan	54.65%	-0.5%
99th	Trinidad and Tobago	55.39%	-0.3%
100th	Slovak Republic	55.42%	-0.3%
101st	Morocco	55.44%	0.8%
102nd	Croatia	55.53%	-0.1%
103rd	Nicaragua	55.94%	0.3%
104th	Angola	56.00%	1.7%
105th	French Polynesia	56.85%	1.0%
106th	Serbia	57.75%	0.8%
107th	Cabo Verde	57.80%	1.3%
108th	North Macedonia	57.86%	0.0%
109th	Portugal	58.25%	1.4%
110th	Botswana	58.45%	2.1%
111th	Paraguay	58.89%	0.3%
112th	São Tomé and Principe	59.42%	2.7%
113th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	59.75%	0.1%
114th	South Africa	59.82%	1.2%
115th	Ireland	60.49%	0.5%
116th	Barbados	60.64%	-0.8%
117th	El Salvador	61.03%	1.5%
118th	Congo, Republic of	61.31%	0.6%
119th	Poland	61.55%	-0.2%
120th	Ecuador	62.01%	0.4%
121st	Mongolia	62.31%	2.5%
122nd	Montenegro	62.68%	0.7%
123rd	Türkiye	63.33%	1.4%
124th	Algeria	63.66%	1.2%
125th	New Caledonia	63.92%	1.0%
126th	Panama	64.07%	0.5%
127th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	64.21%	0.7%
128th	Armenia	64.53%	-0.1%
129th	Costa Rica	64.90%	1.9%
130th	Aruba	64.96%	-0.2%
131st	Tunisia	65.23%	0.5%
132nd	Hungary	66.13%	1.7%
133rd	Dominica	66.24%	0.4%
134th	Lithuania	66.58%	0.0%
135th	Suriname	66.73%	0.0%
136th	Austria	66.98%	0.0%
137th	Malaysia	67.02%	1.4%
138th	Estonia	67.51%	0.1%
139th	Dominican Republic	67.58%	2.6%
140th	Italy	67.59%	0.1%
141st	Ukraine	67.81%	0.3%
142nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	67.87%	0.9%
143rd	Latvia	67.90%	0.0%
144th	Iraq	68.39%	0.3%
145th	Cyprus	68.43%	-0.2%
146th	Finland	68.51%	0.3%
147th	Bulgaria	70.09%	0.2%
148th	Marshall Islands	70.62%	0.8%
149th	Djibouti	71.31%	-0.5%
150th	Oman	71.86%	0.4%
151st	Belarus	72.03%	0.4%
152nd	European Union	72.40%	0.2%
153rd	Russian Federation	73.16%	-0.2%
154th	Switzerland	73.50%	0.0%
155th	Brunei Darussalam	73.55%	0.7%
156th	Czechia	73.64%	-0.1%
157th	Greece	74.26%	0.6%
158th	Peru	74.82%	0.6%
159th	Cuba	76.00%	0.1%
160th	Colombia	76.00%	0.3%
161st	Mexico	76.47%	0.2%
162nd	Spain	77.22%	0.3%
163rd	France	77.44%	-0.1%
164th	Palau	77.57%	1.5%
165th	Norway	77.83%	0.3%
166th	Jordan	78.41%	0.1%
167th	Canada	79.98%	0.4%
168th	Germany	80.17%	0.0%
169th	United States	80.20%	0.3%
170th	United Kingdom	80.45%	0.1%
171st	West Bank and Gaza	80.52%	1.9%
172nd	Saudi Arabia	80.98%	0.3%
173rd	Korea	81.39%	0.4%
174th	Bahamas, The	81.86%	0.2%
175th	United Arab Emirates	82.21%	0.9%
176th	Greenland	82.69%	0.2%
177th	Brazil	82.98%	0.4%
178th	Gabon	83.43%	0.8%
179th	Netherlands	83.50%	1.5%
180th	Belgium	83.56%	0.4%
181st	Sweden	84.35%	0.1%
182nd	Australia	85.62%	0.1%
183rd	New Zealand	85.93%	0.0%
184th	Japan	85.96%	1.9%
185th	Denmark	86.01%	0.3%
186th	Luxembourg	86.37%	0.5%
187th	Lebanon	86.77%	0.2%
188th	Chile	86.78%	0.0%
189th	American Samoa	87.78%	-0.3%
190th	Turks and Caicos Islands	87.91%	0.7%
191st	Libya	88.14%	0.1%
192nd	Andorra	89.96%	-0.6%
193rd	Argentina	90.12%	0.2%
194th	Northern Mariana Islands	90.58%	0.1%
195th	Bahrain	91.17%	1.5%
196th	Curaçao	91.17%	0.0%
197th	Israel	91.64%	0.1%
198th	Uruguay	92.08%	0.3%
199th	Iceland	92.38%	-0.1%
200th	Malta	93.70%	0.1%
201st	Guam	93.79%	0.1%
202nd	Virgin Islands (US)	93.91%	0.2%
203rd	Puerto Rico (US)	94.06%	-0.1%
204th	San Marino	94.65%	0.5%
205th	Qatar	97.30%	0.3%
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%	0.1%
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 Kenya's urban population in 2005?▾

Kenya's urban population in 2005 was 27.27%. This ranked 28th globally.

How did Kenya's urban population change in 2005?▾

Kenya's urban population increased by 7.3% in 2005 compared to 2004.

Which country had the highest urban population in 2005?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 2005 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Kenya in 2005?▾

The urban population of Kenya in 2005 was 27.27%. This ranked 28th globally.

How does 2005 compare to 2004 for Kenya's urban population?▾

Kenya's urban population went from 25.41% in 2004 to 27.27% in 2005, a 7.3% increase.

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