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Korea - Urban Population 2006

Name: Korea Urban Population 2006
Creator: World Bank
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

81.57% +0.18% from 2005 Global rank: 172nd

Korea's urban population was 81.57% in 2006, increased +0.18% from 81.39% in 2005. This was the 172nd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2006▾

Urban Population by Country - 2006
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	9.46%	3.1%
2nd	Papua New Guinea	13.05%	-0.2%
3rd	Liechtenstein	14.54%	-0.4%
4th	Uganda	14.59%	5.8%
5th	Malawi	15.18%	0.5%
6th	Sri Lanka	15.48%	2.1%
7th	Niger	16.27%	0.0%
8th	Rwanda	16.91%	0.0%
9th	South Sudan	16.95%	0.5%
10th	Solomon Islands	18.05%	2.6%
11th	Cambodia	19.23%	0.7%
12th	Afghanistan	20.11%	2.1%
13th	Samoa	20.96%	-1.3%
14th	Mali	21.30%	2.1%
15th	Chad	21.76%	0.1%
16th	Eswatini	22.15%	-0.3%
17th	St. Lucia	22.20%	-5.7%
18th	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.33%	0.0%
19th	Burkina Faso	22.55%	2.4%
20th	Tonga	23.18%	0.1%
21st	Vanuatu	23.29%	1.2%
22nd	Lesotho	23.33%	3.6%
23rd	Tanzania	25.37%	2.7%
24th	Bangladesh	25.95%	1.8%
25th	Tajikistan	26.53%	0.0%
26th	Madagascar	26.76%	1.1%
27th	Timor-Leste	27.12%	3.1%
28th	Guyana	27.46%	-1.1%
29th	Lao PDR	28.04%	2.6%
30th	Viet Nam	28.05%	2.3%
31st	Comoros	28.11%	0.3%
32nd	Antigua and Barbuda	28.44%	-2.5%
33rd	Myanmar	28.55%	0.6%
34th	Kenya	28.98%	6.3%
35th	Yemen, Republic of	29.24%	1.3%
36th	India	29.43%	1.2%
37th	Mozambique	30.17%	0.5%
38th	Channel Islands	31.34%	0.7%
39th	Bhutan	31.57%	2.0%
40th	St. Kitts and Nevis	31.84%	-0.5%
41st	Sudan	32.47%	0.0%
42nd	Zimbabwe	32.66%	0.0%
43rd	Guinea	32.69%	0.9%
44th	Pakistan	34.09%	0.5%
45th	Maldives	34.87%	2.3%
46th	Eritrea	35.25%	0.4%
47th	Kyrgyz Republic	35.30%	0.0%
48th	Togo	35.80%	1.3%
49th	Grenada	35.91%	0.0%
50th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	36.00%	1.5%
51st	Faroe Islands	36.46%	0.3%
52nd	Sierra Leone	37.17%	0.9%
53rd	Kosovo	37.67%	0.1%
54th	Namibia	37.67%	3.0%
55th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	37.80%	1.1%
56th	Zambia	37.84%	1.5%
57th	Central African Republic	38.13%	0.2%
58th	Guinea-Bissau	38.69%	0.8%
59th	Moldova	39.22%	-0.4%
60th	Thailand	39.44%	3.4%
61st	Benin	40.79%	1.2%
62nd	Mauritius	40.96%	-0.4%
63rd	Mauritania	41.37%	2.4%
64th	Philippines	41.83%	1.2%
65th	Senegal	42.20%	0.7%
66th	Seychelles	42.79%	-0.1%
67th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.97%	0.0%
68th	Haiti	43.28%	1.7%
69th	Kiribati	43.73%	0.4%
70th	Equatorial Guinea	43.93%	3.9%
71st	British Virgin Islands	44.22%	1.1%
72nd	China	44.34%	3.1%
73rd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	44.48%	0.7%
74th	Côte d'Ivoire	45.50%	0.9%
75th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	45.59%	0.3%
76th	Liberia	46.23%	0.8%
77th	Belize	46.41%	-0.7%
78th	Turkmenistan	46.81%	0.1%
79th	Indonesia	47.00%	1.7%
80th	Albania	47.07%	2.3%
81st	Ghana	48.14%	1.4%
82nd	Nigeria	48.42%	1.8%
83rd	Guatemala	48.77%	1.5%
84th	Honduras	48.78%	1.3%
85th	Cameroon	49.20%	1.3%
86th	Nepal	49.51%	8.8%
87th	Fiji	50.23%	0.8%
88th	Tuvalu	50.52%	2.2%
89th	Slovenia	50.57%	-0.2%
90th	Isle of Man	51.11%	-0.1%
91st	Uzbekistan	51.46%	0.8%
92nd	Azerbaijan	52.65%	0.3%
93rd	Jamaica	52.97%	0.4%
94th	Gambia, The	53.16%	1.5%
95th	Romania	53.26%	0.3%
96th	Georgia	53.36%	0.7%
97th	Syrian Arab Republic	54.06%	0.4%
98th	Kazakhstan	54.41%	-0.4%
99th	Trinidad and Tobago	55.18%	-0.4%
100th	Slovak Republic	55.25%	-0.3%
101st	Croatia	55.47%	-0.1%
102nd	Morocco	55.96%	0.9%
103rd	Nicaragua	56.11%	0.3%
104th	Angola	56.89%	1.6%
105th	French Polynesia	57.58%	1.3%
106th	North Macedonia	57.88%	0.0%
107th	Serbia	58.17%	0.7%
108th	Cabo Verde	58.53%	1.3%
109th	Paraguay	59.02%	0.2%
110th	Portugal	59.03%	1.4%
111th	Botswana	59.64%	2.0%
112th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	59.83%	0.1%
113th	Barbados	60.20%	-0.7%
114th	South Africa	60.53%	1.2%
115th	Ireland	60.77%	0.5%
116th	São Tomé and Principe	60.97%	2.6%
117th	Poland	61.42%	-0.2%
118th	Congo, Republic of	61.62%	0.5%
119th	El Salvador	61.91%	1.4%
120th	Ecuador	62.21%	0.3%
121st	Montenegro	63.11%	0.7%
122nd	Mongolia	63.84%	2.4%
123rd	Türkiye	64.29%	1.5%
124th	Panama	64.36%	0.4%
125th	Algeria	64.42%	1.2%
126th	Armenia	64.48%	-0.1%
127th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	64.66%	0.7%
128th	New Caledonia	64.75%	1.3%
129th	Aruba	64.81%	-0.2%
130th	Tunisia	65.52%	0.4%
131st	Costa Rica	66.17%	2.0%
132nd	Dominica	66.55%	0.5%
133rd	Lithuania	66.64%	0.1%
134th	Suriname	66.70%	-0.1%
135th	Austria	67.00%	0.0%
136th	Hungary	67.02%	1.3%
137th	Estonia	67.56%	0.1%
138th	Italy	67.68%	0.1%
139th	Latvia	67.87%	0.0%
140th	Malaysia	67.92%	1.3%
141st	Ukraine	68.03%	0.3%
142nd	Cyprus	68.25%	-0.3%
143rd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	68.31%	0.6%
144th	Iraq	68.56%	0.2%
145th	Finland	68.76%	0.4%
146th	Dominican Republic	69.33%	2.6%
147th	Bulgaria	70.51%	0.6%
148th	Djibouti	71.02%	-0.4%
149th	Marshall Islands	71.21%	0.8%
150th	Oman	72.39%	0.7%
151st	European Union	72.56%	0.2%
152nd	Belarus	72.61%	0.8%
153rd	Russian Federation	73.24%	0.1%
154th	Switzerland	73.51%	0.0%
155th	Czechia	73.58%	-0.1%
156th	Brunei Darussalam	74.01%	0.6%
157th	Greece	74.72%	0.6%
158th	Peru	75.28%	0.6%
159th	Cuba	76.11%	0.1%
160th	Colombia	76.16%	0.2%
161st	Mexico	76.50%	0.0%
162nd	France	77.35%	-0.1%
163rd	Spain	77.50%	0.4%
164th	Norway	78.09%	0.3%
165th	Palau	78.31%	0.9%
166th	Jordan	78.76%	0.4%
167th	Germany	80.20%	0.0%
168th	Canada	80.22%	0.3%
169th	United States	80.37%	0.2%
170th	United Kingdom	80.55%	0.1%
171st	Saudi Arabia	81.20%	0.3%
172nd	Korea	81.57%	0.2%
173rd	West Bank and Gaza	81.76%	1.5%
174th	Bahamas, The	82.04%	0.2%
175th	United Arab Emirates	82.56%	0.4%
176th	Greenland	82.85%	0.2%
177th	Brazil	83.27%	0.3%
178th	Belgium	83.86%	0.4%
179th	Gabon	84.09%	0.8%
180th	Sweden	84.46%	0.1%
181st	Netherlands	84.65%	1.4%
182nd	Australia	85.75%	0.2%
183rd	New Zealand	85.94%	0.0%
184th	Denmark	86.25%	0.3%
185th	Luxembourg	86.77%	0.5%
186th	Chile	86.81%	0.0%
187th	Lebanon	86.93%	0.2%
188th	Japan	87.15%	1.4%
189th	American Samoa	87.50%	-0.3%
190th	Libya	88.16%	0.0%
191st	Turks and Caicos Islands	88.48%	0.7%
192nd	Andorra	89.38%	-0.6%
193rd	Argentina	90.30%	0.2%
194th	Northern Mariana Islands	90.65%	0.1%
195th	Curaçao	91.19%	0.0%
196th	Israel	91.68%	0.0%
197th	Iceland	92.19%	-0.2%
198th	Uruguay	92.48%	0.4%
199th	Bahrain	92.72%	1.7%
200th	Malta	93.80%	0.1%
201st	Guam	93.89%	0.1%
202nd	Puerto Rico (US)	93.96%	-0.1%
203rd	Virgin Islands (US)	94.09%	0.2%
204th	San Marino	95.21%	0.6%
205th	Qatar	97.58%	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%	0.0%
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 Korea's urban population in 2006?▾

Korea's urban population in 2006 was 81.57%. This ranked 172nd globally.

How did Korea's urban population change in 2006?▾

Korea's urban population increased by 0.2% in 2006 compared to 2005.

Which country had the highest urban population in 2006?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 2006 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Korea in 2006?▾

The urban population of Korea in 2006 was 81.57%. This ranked 172nd globally.

How does 2006 compare to 2005 for Korea's urban population?▾

Korea's urban population went from 81.39% in 2005 to 81.57% in 2006, a 0.2% increase.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Korea matched the Export Boom Cycle pattern in 2006. Historically: 768 occurrences, 546 successful (71%). Outcome 24 months later: 3.0%. View full analysis →

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