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Korea - Urban Population 1968

Name: Korea Urban Population 1968
Creator: World Bank
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

36.53% +1.97% from 1967 Global rank: 99th

Korea's urban population was 36.53% in 1968, increased +1.97% from 34.56% in 1967. This was the 99th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1968▾

Urban Population by Country - 1968
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	2.63%	4.6%
2nd	Bhutan	2.91%	2.8%
3rd	Rwanda	3.06%	2.2%
4th	Nepal	3.82%	1.0%
5th	Malawi	5.08%	4.9%
6th	Tanzania	5.19%	3.1%
7th	Yemen, Republic of	5.34%	6.0%
8th	Burkina Faso	5.72%	1.6%
9th	Uganda	5.97%	2.7%
10th	Solomon Islands	6.06%	10.7%
11th	Mozambique	6.29%	7.6%
12th	Botswana	6.78%	20.1%
13th	Bangladesh	6.79%	4.0%
14th	Papua New Guinea	7.77%	17.2%
15th	Niger	7.96%	6.3%
16th	Lesotho	8.12%	7.0%
17th	Eswatini	8.49%	9.0%
18th	South Sudan	8.54%	-0.1%
19th	Lao PDR	8.82%	2.9%
20th	Kenya	9.61%	2.0%
21st	Mali	10.00%	4.0%
22nd	Chad	10.09%	6.3%
23rd	Vanuatu	10.34%	3.4%
24th	Afghanistan	10.50%	3.3%
25th	Cambodia	11.29%	7.8%
26th	Gambia, The	11.33%	7.5%
27th	Maldives	11.42%	0.8%
28th	Timor-Leste	11.50%	2.7%
29th	Eritrea	12.41%	1.7%
30th	Thailand	12.91%	1.3%
31st	Mauritania	13.03%	8.1%
32nd	Madagascar	13.38%	2.4%
33rd	Angola	13.50%	3.3%
34th	Tuvalu	14.20%	2.1%
35th	Guinea-Bissau	14.74%	0.8%
36th	Guinea	15.33%	5.7%
37th	British Virgin Islands	15.46%	3.6%
38th	Benin	15.71%	6.5%
39th	Indonesia	16.29%	1.4%
40th	Zimbabwe	16.35%	3.8%
41st	Sudan	16.54%	3.3%
42nd	Cabo Verde	16.86%	11.2%
43rd	China	17.62%	-0.7%
44th	Haiti	18.40%	2.4%
45th	Cameroon	18.55%	4.7%
46th	Liechtenstein	18.70%	-1.4%
47th	Nigeria	18.91%	3.4%
48th	Comoros	18.96%	2.5%
49th	India	19.24%	1.2%
50th	Samoa	19.75%	1.3%
51st	Togo	19.98%	5.4%
52nd	Viet Nam	20.11%	4.3%
53rd	Tonga	20.14%	0.2%
54th	Sri Lanka	21.51%	2.5%
55th	St. Lucia	21.62%	1.0%
56th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	22.08%	2.8%
57th	Myanmar	22.65%	1.7%
58th	Sierra Leone	22.70%	3.8%
59th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	23.58%	0.9%
60th	Kiribati	23.67%	3.4%
61st	Pakistan	24.36%	0.9%
62nd	Liberia	24.45%	3.4%
63rd	Namibia	24.75%	0.5%
64th	Micronesia, Federated States of	24.80%	0.8%
65th	Kosovo	24.93%	3.3%
66th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	25.50%	3.6%
67th	Central African Republic	25.58%	3.4%
68th	Equatorial Guinea	26.19%	0.0%
69th	Faroe Islands	26.81%	2.6%
70th	Virgin Islands (US)	26.87%	-10.6%
71st	Côte d'Ivoire	26.88%	2.7%
72nd	Honduras	26.95%	3.1%
73rd	Gabon	27.38%	10.0%
74th	São Tomé and Principe	27.39%	6.6%
75th	Zambia	28.02%	6.3%
76th	Türkiye	28.05%	3.9%
77th	Ghana	28.22%	1.8%
78th	Malaysia	28.77%	1.1%
79th	Oman	28.99%	7.3%
80th	Senegal	29.43%	3.9%
81st	Guyana	30.05%	0.3%
82nd	Moldova	30.10%	3.1%
83rd	Albania	31.40%	0.2%
84th	Philippines	31.47%	0.5%
85th	Montenegro	31.77%	2.6%
86th	Grenada	31.97%	0.5%
87th	St. Kitts and Nevis	33.29%	2.2%
88th	Morocco	33.34%	1.7%
89th	Antigua and Barbuda	34.16%	-1.8%
90th	Portugal	34.17%	1.5%
91st	Fiji	34.40%	1.6%
92nd	Trinidad and Tobago	34.68%	8.1%
93rd	Slovenia	35.12%	2.6%
94th	Guatemala	35.36%	1.1%
95th	Seychelles	35.70%	4.5%
96th	Libya	36.20%	13.7%
97th	Channel Islands	36.23%	-1.1%
98th	Uzbekistan	36.43%	1.1%
99th	Korea	36.53%	5.7%
100th	Paraguay	36.61%	0.4%
101st	Tajikistan	36.99%	0.6%
102nd	Kyrgyz Republic	37.14%	0.6%
103rd	Costa Rica	37.26%	2.1%
104th	Congo, Republic of	37.83%	0.6%
105th	Serbia	38.02%	3.0%
106th	Dominican Republic	38.13%	2.9%
107th	Dominica	38.33%	0.2%
108th	Croatia	38.42%	2.8%
109th	Ecuador	38.49%	1.1%
110th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	38.62%	0.7%
111th	El Salvador	39.17%	0.2%
112th	Slovak Republic	39.19%	2.3%
113th	Cyprus	39.24%	0.8%
114th	Algeria	39.31%	0.5%
115th	Jamaica	39.60%	3.0%
116th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	39.74%	2.3%
117th	Romania	40.17%	2.2%
118th	Belarus	41.46%	3.1%
119th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	41.91%	0.8%
120th	Tunisia	42.13%	2.6%
121st	Syrian Arab Republic	42.71%	0.8%
122nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	42.71%	0.6%
123rd	Mauritius	43.53%	0.7%
124th	Mongolia	43.74%	1.1%
125th	Barbados	43.84%	1.5%
126th	Saudi Arabia	45.00%	4.8%
127th	North Macedonia	45.14%	3.1%
128th	Nicaragua	45.63%	2.2%
129th	Panama	46.69%	1.4%
130th	Georgia	47.18%	0.9%
131st	South Africa	47.62%	0.2%
132nd	Lithuania	47.78%	2.6%
133rd	Turkmenistan	47.86%	0.2%
134th	Marshall Islands	47.93%	5.1%
135th	Bulgaria	49.01%	2.1%
136th	Jordan	49.16%	1.6%
137th	New Caledonia	49.34%	3.2%
138th	Kazakhstan	49.54%	1.1%
139th	Azerbaijan	50.02%	0.3%
140th	Turks and Caicos Islands	50.25%	0.9%
141st	Ireland	50.68%	1.3%
142nd	French Polynesia	51.01%	2.4%
143rd	Austria	51.21%	0.4%
144th	Brazil	51.22%	1.8%
145th	Poland	51.24%	0.7%
146th	American Samoa	51.53%	4.1%
147th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	51.97%	2.9%
148th	West Bank and Gaza	52.67%	2.3%
149th	Ukraine	53.27%	1.6%
150th	Belize	54.23%	0.1%
151st	Puerto Rico (US)	54.28%	2.7%
152nd	Iraq	54.81%	2.1%
153rd	Hungary	54.86%	0.4%
154th	Peru	55.35%	2.3%
155th	Colombia	56.11%	1.9%
156th	Lebanon	56.21%	3.4%
157th	Palau	56.31%	2.2%
158th	Switzerland	56.33%	1.1%
159th	Isle of Man	56.35%	-0.2%
160th	San Marino	56.97%	2.3%
161st	Mexico	57.45%	1.4%
162nd	Armenia	57.70%	1.2%
163rd	Finland	59.50%	0.6%
164th	Cuba	59.64%	0.5%
165th	Djibouti	60.55%	2.2%
166th	Brunei Darussalam	60.84%	3.1%
167th	Russian Federation	60.87%	1.4%
168th	Aruba	61.40%	0.8%
169th	Latvia	61.58%	0.9%
170th	Netherlands	61.79%	0.3%
171st	Norway	62.62%	3.5%
172nd	Greece	62.63%	1.6%
173rd	Bahamas, The	62.66%	1.3%
174th	Czechia	63.32%	0.8%
175th	Italy	63.58%	0.8%
176th	European Union	63.61%	0.9%
177th	Estonia	64.17%	0.9%
178th	Spain	64.41%	1.7%
179th	Suriname	65.89%	0.0%
180th	Belgium	69.65%	0.8%
181st	France	70.18%	1.1%
182nd	Japan	70.32%	1.1%
183rd	Greenland	71.96%	1.1%
184th	United States	73.25%	0.3%
185th	Luxembourg	73.25%	0.8%
186th	Andorra	73.75%	2.8%
187th	Chile	73.91%	0.9%
188th	New Zealand	74.60%	4.6%
189th	Canada	74.96%	0.9%
190th	Qatar	75.30%	1.3%
191st	United Kingdom	77.09%	-0.2%
192nd	Argentina	77.57%	0.9%
193rd	Curaçao	78.25%	0.4%
194th	Denmark	78.63%	0.7%
195th	Germany	79.42%	0.4%
196th	Kuwait	79.78%	0.2%
197th	United Arab Emirates	79.80%	0.8%
198th	Sweden	79.84%	1.1%
199th	Bahrain	79.93%	-1.3%
200th	Northern Mariana Islands	81.45%	-1.0%
201st	Uruguay	81.64%	0.2%
202nd	Israel	83.15%	0.8%
203rd	Australia	84.20%	0.7%
204th	Iceland	84.40%	0.6%
205th	Hong Kong SAR, China	86.96%	0.4%
206th	Guam	88.51%	0.4%
207th	Malta	89.35%	0.0%
208th	Macao SAR, China	96.59%	0.3%
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 Korea's urban population in 1968?▾

Korea's urban population in 1968 was 36.53%. This ranked 99th globally.

How did Korea's urban population change in 1968?▾

Korea's urban population increased by 5.7% in 1968 compared to 1967.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1968?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1968 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Korea in 1968?▾

The urban population of Korea in 1968 was 36.53%. This ranked 99th globally.

How does 1968 compare to 1967 for Korea's urban population?▾

Korea's urban population went from 34.56% in 1967 to 36.53% in 1968, a 5.7% increase.

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