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Korea - Urban Population 1989

Name: Korea Urban Population 1989
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

72.47% +1.88% from 1988 Global rank: 164th

Korea's urban population was 72.47% in 1989, increased +1.88% from 70.59% in 1988. This was the 164th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1989▾

Urban Population by Country - 1989
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Rwanda	5.20%	1.2%
2nd	Burundi	6.07%	3.4%
3rd	Uganda	9.47%	3.5%
4th	Malawi	11.25%	3.1%
5th	South Sudan	11.91%	6.8%
6th	Lesotho	12.29%	4.1%
7th	Burkina Faso	12.93%	2.5%
8th	Solomon Islands	13.58%	1.5%
9th	Lao PDR	14.94%	2.0%
10th	Papua New Guinea	15.30%	1.2%
11th	Niger	15.37%	0.7%
12th	Cambodia	15.38%	2.2%
13th	Mali	16.43%	1.3%
14th	Liechtenstein	17.06%	-0.9%
15th	Afghanistan	17.15%	0.7%
16th	Eritrea	17.67%	5.9%
17th	Kenya	18.07%	0.9%
18th	Vanuatu	18.44%	1.9%
19th	Thailand	18.51%	1.2%
20th	Sri Lanka	18.57%	-2.5%
21st	Tanzania	18.57%	2.1%
22nd	Viet Nam	19.05%	0.0%
23rd	Nepal	19.21%	2.5%
24th	Yemen, Republic of	19.37%	4.4%
25th	Bhutan	19.43%	4.2%
26th	Bangladesh	19.45%	2.2%
27th	Timor-Leste	20.64%	1.9%
28th	Samoa	20.78%	0.8%
29th	Chad	21.09%	0.6%
30th	Madagascar	21.58%	1.5%
31st	Tonga	22.04%	0.8%
32nd	Mozambique	22.09%	5.4%
33rd	Eswatini	22.90%	0.2%
34th	Haiti	23.61%	3.2%
35th	India	25.39%	0.7%
36th	Myanmar	25.65%	0.6%
37th	Maldives	25.85%	0.2%
38th	Micronesia, Federated States of	26.10%	-0.3%
39th	China	26.21%	1.5%
40th	Namibia	26.68%	0.6%
41st	Guinea	27.95%	1.0%
42nd	Comoros	28.08%	1.4%
43rd	Togo	28.25%	1.5%
44th	Sudan	28.59%	5.6%
45th	Zimbabwe	28.91%	2.7%
46th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	29.10%	1.0%
47th	St. Lucia	29.42%	0.7%
48th	Guyana	29.56%	0.0%
49th	Indonesia	29.63%	3.3%
50th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	29.88%	1.3%
51st	Pakistan	30.51%	0.8%
52nd	Guinea-Bissau	30.64%	4.9%
53rd	Channel Islands	31.53%	-0.4%
54th	Tajikistan	32.33%	-1.0%
55th	Sierra Leone	33.22%	0.8%
56th	Grenada	33.34%	0.2%
57th	Faroe Islands	33.36%	1.0%
58th	Equatorial Guinea	33.41%	5.3%
59th	Guatemala	33.67%	0.6%
60th	Benin	34.23%	1.9%
61st	Nigeria	34.41%	2.3%
62nd	Gambia, The	34.63%	1.5%
63rd	Kiribati	34.69%	0.9%
64th	St. Kitts and Nevis	34.80%	-0.5%
65th	Ghana	34.98%	2.1%
66th	Antigua and Barbuda	35.46%	0.1%
67th	Albania	35.57%	0.8%
68th	Philippines	35.75%	0.7%
69th	Angola	36.51%	3.9%
70th	Kosovo	36.64%	1.0%
71st	Central African Republic	37.12%	0.2%
72nd	British Virgin Islands	37.48%	4.0%
73rd	Kyrgyz Republic	38.12%	-0.1%
74th	Tuvalu	38.62%	3.0%
75th	Senegal	38.74%	0.6%
76th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	39.00%	0.8%
77th	Côte d'Ivoire	39.39%	0.7%
78th	Cameroon	39.40%	1.8%
79th	Zambia	39.45%	-0.2%
80th	Mauritania	39.56%	-0.1%
81st	Honduras	39.99%	1.3%
82nd	Fiji	40.30%	1.8%
83rd	Uzbekistan	40.62%	-0.5%
84th	Botswana	40.92%	8.9%
85th	Liberia	41.87%	1.3%
86th	São Tomé and Principe	42.54%	3.1%
87th	Cabo Verde	42.54%	5.0%
88th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	43.74%	-0.3%
89th	Mauritius	43.78%	0.7%
90th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	43.81%	0.1%
91st	Turkmenistan	45.11%	-0.3%
92nd	Portugal	47.11%	1.4%
93rd	Moldova	47.18%	1.6%
94th	Malaysia	47.44%	3.7%
95th	Belize	47.56%	-0.7%
96th	Morocco	47.71%	1.6%
97th	Costa Rica	47.71%	1.7%
98th	Montenegro	48.14%	0.7%
99th	El Salvador	48.33%	1.4%
100th	Syrian Arab Republic	48.65%	0.4%
101st	Seychelles	49.08%	-0.2%
102nd	Paraguay	49.14%	2.1%
103rd	Jamaica	49.26%	0.4%
104th	Serbia	49.95%	0.8%
105th	Türkiye	50.03%	2.2%
106th	Slovenia	50.26%	-1.4%
107th	Algeria	51.35%	1.6%
108th	South Africa	51.39%	1.3%
109th	Isle of Man	51.59%	0.3%
110th	Nicaragua	53.29%	0.4%
111th	Panama	53.33%	1.0%
112th	Croatia	53.65%	1.0%
113th	Romania	54.03%	0.5%
114th	Azerbaijan	54.12%	0.7%
115th	Congo, Republic of	54.20%	0.8%
116th	Ecuador	54.42%	1.3%
117th	Dominican Republic	54.69%	0.5%
118th	Trinidad and Tobago	54.81%	0.4%
119th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	54.91%	2.1%
120th	Georgia	55.32%	-0.2%
121st	Iran, Islamic Republic of	55.91%	1.0%
122nd	Slovak Republic	56.64%	0.5%
123rd	Ireland	56.78%	0.2%
124th	Mongolia	57.04%	0.0%
125th	North Macedonia	57.05%	0.7%
126th	Tunisia	57.09%	1.7%
127th	Kazakhstan	57.23%	0.0%
128th	French Polynesia	58.15%	-0.3%
129th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	58.26%	0.3%
130th	New Caledonia	59.47%	0.2%
131st	Hungary	60.68%	0.5%
132nd	Poland	61.23%	0.2%
133rd	Dominica	63.04%	2.5%
134th	Austria	63.36%	1.5%
135th	Barbados	63.56%	0.0%
136th	Finland	63.84%	0.1%
137th	Brunei Darussalam	64.82%	1.6%
138th	West Bank and Gaza	64.99%	0.5%
139th	Aruba	65.49%	-0.1%
140th	Belarus	65.83%	1.4%
141st	Suriname	66.34%	0.1%
142nd	Italy	66.73%	0.0%
143rd	Cyprus	66.84%	0.5%
144th	Virgin Islands (US)	66.90%	5.6%
145th	Marshall Islands	66.92%	0.4%
146th	Ukraine	67.09%	0.7%
147th	Bulgaria	67.31%	0.9%
148th	Lithuania	67.67%	0.4%
149th	Armenia	67.80%	0.0%
150th	Gabon	67.83%	2.2%
151st	Switzerland	68.02%	1.1%
152nd	Peru	68.55%	0.6%
153rd	Netherlands	68.77%	0.5%
154th	Colombia	69.02%	0.7%
155th	Palau	69.21%	0.4%
156th	Oman	69.53%	1.5%
157th	European Union	69.92%	0.2%
158th	Iraq	70.00%	-0.2%
159th	Latvia	70.81%	0.0%
160th	Mexico	71.04%	0.6%
161st	Greece	71.35%	0.2%
162nd	Estonia	71.43%	0.0%
163rd	Norway	71.71%	0.2%
164th	Korea	72.47%	2.7%
165th	Turks and Caicos Islands	72.84%	2.7%
166th	Cuba	73.25%	0.8%
167th	Russian Federation	73.56%	0.4%
168th	Jordan	73.82%	2.0%
169th	France	73.94%	0.1%
170th	Brazil	74.25%	0.9%
171st	American Samoa	74.47%	1.7%
172nd	Spain	74.62%	0.3%
173rd	United States	75.05%	0.3%
174th	Czechia	75.27%	-0.1%
175th	Djibouti	75.97%	0.2%
176th	Saudi Arabia	76.34%	1.0%
177th	Canada	76.53%	0.0%
178th	Japan	77.21%	0.2%
179th	United Kingdom	78.14%	-0.1%
180th	Belgium	78.19%	0.5%
181st	United Arab Emirates	78.83%	-0.2%
182nd	Greenland	79.74%	0.2%
183rd	Libya	79.74%	1.1%
184th	Germany	80.01%	0.0%
185th	Bahamas, The	80.20%	0.5%
186th	Luxembourg	80.85%	0.1%
187th	Puerto Rico (US)	82.13%	2.3%
188th	Lebanon	82.89%	0.6%
189th	Chile	83.08%	0.1%
190th	Sweden	83.32%	0.1%
191st	Curaçao	83.86%	0.4%
192nd	New Zealand	84.55%	0.3%
193rd	Denmark	84.83%	0.0%
194th	Australia	85.38%	0.0%
195th	Argentina	86.59%	0.4%
196th	Bahrain	87.61%	0.9%
197th	Uruguay	88.72%	0.4%
198th	Northern Mariana Islands	89.70%	0.2%
199th	Israel	90.34%	0.1%
200th	Iceland	90.40%	0.3%
201st	San Marino	90.44%	0.0%
202nd	Guam	90.49%	0.3%
203rd	Malta	90.66%	0.4%
204th	Qatar	92.37%	0.7%
205th	Andorra	95.30%	0.0%
206th	Kuwait	97.97%	0.0%
207th	Hong Kong SAR, China	98.01%	1.8%
208th	Macao SAR, China	99.52%	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 Korea's urban population in 1989?▾

Korea's urban population in 1989 was 72.47%. This ranked 164th globally.

How did Korea's urban population change in 1989?▾

Korea's urban population increased by 2.7% in 1989 compared to 1988.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1989?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1989 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Korea in 1989?▾

The urban population of Korea in 1989 was 72.47%. This ranked 164th globally.

How does 1989 compare to 1988 for Korea's urban population?▾

Korea's urban population went from 70.59% in 1988 to 72.47% in 1989, a 2.7% increase.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Korea matched the Export Boom Cycle pattern in 1989. Historically: 768 occurrences, 546 successful (71%). Outcome 24 months later: 10.9%. View full analysis →

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