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Lesotho - Urban Population 1986

Name: Lesotho Urban Population 1986
Creator: World Bank
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

11.30% +0.03% from 1985 Global rank: 6th

Lesotho's urban population was 11.30% in 1986, increased +0.03% from 11.28% in 1985. This was the 6th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1986▾

Urban Population by Country - 1986
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Rwanda	5.05%	0.7%
2nd	Burundi	5.46%	3.8%
3rd	Uganda	8.44%	4.4%
4th	South Sudan	9.73%	6.3%
5th	Malawi	10.37%	2.2%
6th	Lesotho	11.30%	0.2%
7th	Burkina Faso	11.89%	3.8%
8th	Solomon Islands	12.89%	2.3%
9th	Lao PDR	14.09%	2.1%
10th	Cambodia	14.40%	2.2%
11th	Papua New Guinea	14.52%	2.5%
12th	Niger	14.99%	1.1%
13th	Mali	15.73%	1.7%
14th	Eritrea	15.77%	2.1%
15th	Afghanistan	16.77%	0.9%
16th	Yemen, Republic of	17.01%	4.5%
17th	Bhutan	17.06%	4.9%
18th	Vanuatu	17.31%	2.4%
19th	Tanzania	17.40%	2.4%
20th	Kenya	17.52%	1.3%
21st	Liechtenstein	17.58%	-1.0%
22nd	Nepal	17.92%	2.2%
23rd	Thailand	17.95%	0.7%
24th	Bangladesh	18.12%	2.7%
25th	Mozambique	18.68%	6.3%
26th	Viet Nam	19.06%	-0.1%
27th	Timor-Leste	19.42%	2.3%
28th	Sri Lanka	19.92%	-2.0%
29th	Samoa	20.50%	-0.6%
30th	Madagascar	20.59%	1.7%
31st	Chad	20.62%	1.0%
32nd	Tonga	21.53%	0.8%
33rd	Haiti	21.69%	2.0%
34th	Eswatini	22.74%	1.0%
35th	Sudan	23.96%	6.1%
36th	China	24.52%	3.5%
37th	India	24.84%	0.8%
38th	Myanmar	25.21%	0.5%
39th	Maldives	25.63%	0.5%
40th	Guinea-Bissau	25.91%	7.2%
41st	Namibia	26.22%	0.5%
42nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	26.31%	-0.2%
43rd	Zimbabwe	26.48%	3.3%
44th	Comoros	26.64%	2.3%
45th	Indonesia	26.86%	3.4%
46th	Togo	27.00%	1.5%
47th	Guinea	27.11%	1.2%
48th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	28.22%	0.9%
49th	Equatorial Guinea	28.61%	4.3%
50th	St. Lucia	28.65%	1.2%
51st	Congo, Democratic Republic of	28.76%	1.2%
52nd	Guyana	29.54%	0.0%
53rd	Pakistan	29.76%	0.9%
54th	Botswana	29.99%	14.6%
55th	Channel Islands	31.80%	-0.1%
56th	Nigeria	32.06%	2.5%
57th	Benin	32.15%	2.5%
58th	Angola	32.32%	4.5%
59th	Faroe Islands	32.40%	0.6%
60th	Sierra Leone	32.41%	1.0%
61st	British Virgin Islands	32.45%	6.4%
62nd	Ghana	33.03%	1.6%
63rd	Gambia, The	33.05%	1.8%
64th	Guatemala	33.11%	0.4%
65th	Tajikistan	33.14%	-0.6%
66th	Grenada	33.19%	0.1%
67th	Kiribati	33.80%	0.8%
68th	Albania	34.81%	0.6%
69th	Philippines	35.07%	0.6%
70th	Tuvalu	35.25%	3.0%
71st	Antigua and Barbuda	35.25%	0.3%
72nd	St. Kitts and Nevis	35.31%	-0.4%
73rd	Kosovo	35.38%	1.5%
74th	Cabo Verde	35.63%	7.9%
75th	Liberia	36.74%	-7.0%
76th	Central African Republic	36.84%	0.3%
77th	Cameroon	37.26%	2.0%
78th	Senegal	37.97%	0.8%
79th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	38.13%	0.8%
80th	Kyrgyz Republic	38.21%	0.0%
81st	Honduras	38.41%	1.4%
82nd	Côte d'Ivoire	38.61%	0.6%
83rd	Fiji	38.68%	0.6%
84th	São Tomé and Principe	38.71%	3.3%
85th	Mauritania	38.78%	2.9%
86th	Zambia	39.68%	-0.2%
87th	Uzbekistan	40.54%	-0.2%
88th	Malaysia	42.29%	4.2%
89th	Mauritius	42.56%	1.0%
90th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	43.71%	0.1%
91st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	43.97%	0.0%
92nd	Moldova	44.28%	1.8%
93rd	Portugal	45.17%	1.5%
94th	Morocco	45.42%	1.6%
95th	Costa Rica	45.47%	1.3%
96th	Turkmenistan	45.64%	-0.6%
97th	Paraguay	46.15%	2.1%
98th	El Salvador	46.37%	1.4%
99th	Türkiye	46.71%	2.5%
100th	Montenegro	47.24%	0.6%
101st	Syrian Arab Republic	48.09%	0.4%
102nd	Jamaica	48.72%	0.4%
103rd	Belize	48.75%	-1.1%
104th	Serbia	48.78%	0.8%
105th	Algeria	48.87%	2.0%
106th	Seychelles	49.29%	-0.1%
107th	South Africa	49.56%	0.7%
108th	Slovenia	50.76%	0.5%
109th	Isle of Man	51.10%	0.3%
110th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	51.35%	2.5%
111th	Croatia	51.77%	1.5%
112th	Panama	51.90%	0.8%
113th	Ecuador	52.18%	1.6%
114th	Nicaragua	52.65%	0.4%
115th	Congo, Republic of	52.86%	1.0%
116th	Romania	53.01%	0.9%
117th	Azerbaijan	53.41%	0.4%
118th	Dominican Republic	53.96%	0.5%
119th	Trinidad and Tobago	54.12%	0.5%
120th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	54.15%	1.1%
121st	Tunisia	54.32%	1.4%
122nd	Georgia	54.40%	0.7%
123rd	Slovak Republic	55.51%	1.0%
124th	North Macedonia	55.94%	0.6%
125th	Virgin Islands (US)	56.42%	6.3%
126th	Ireland	56.42%	0.2%
127th	Mongolia	56.43%	0.9%
128th	Kazakhstan	56.81%	0.6%
129th	Dominica	57.51%	4.1%
130th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	57.70%	0.3%
131st	French Polynesia	58.57%	-0.2%
132nd	New Caledonia	59.07%	0.2%
133rd	Hungary	59.73%	0.5%
134th	Austria	60.11%	2.0%
135th	Poland	60.73%	0.5%
136th	Brunei Darussalam	61.71%	1.5%
137th	Belarus	62.80%	1.6%
138th	Barbados	63.54%	0.0%
139th	Finland	63.59%	0.2%
140th	Gabon	63.71%	2.0%
141st	West Bank and Gaza	64.05%	0.5%
142nd	Marshall Islands	65.14%	1.8%
143rd	Bulgaria	65.25%	0.5%
144th	Ukraine	65.54%	0.8%
145th	Switzerland	65.64%	1.3%
146th	Cyprus	65.68%	0.8%
147th	Aruba	65.75%	-0.1%
148th	Oman	65.98%	2.3%
149th	Lithuania	66.11%	1.0%
150th	Suriname	66.23%	0.1%
151st	Turks and Caicos Islands	66.42%	3.7%
152nd	Korea	66.58%	2.7%
153rd	Italy	66.81%	0.0%
154th	Peru	67.41%	0.6%
155th	Colombia	67.57%	0.7%
156th	Armenia	67.63%	0.2%
157th	Netherlands	67.97%	0.5%
158th	Palau	68.32%	0.8%
159th	Jordan	69.08%	2.5%
160th	European Union	69.39%	0.3%
161st	Mexico	69.64%	0.7%
162nd	Iraq	70.02%	0.5%
163rd	Latvia	70.53%	0.4%
164th	American Samoa	70.69%	1.8%
165th	Greece	70.86%	0.3%
166th	Estonia	71.25%	0.2%
167th	Norway	71.37%	0.1%
168th	Cuba	71.58%	0.7%
169th	Brazil	72.30%	1.0%
170th	Russian Federation	72.47%	0.6%
171st	France	73.64%	0.1%
172nd	Spain	73.80%	0.4%
173rd	Saudi Arabia	73.90%	1.3%
174th	United States	74.47%	0.2%
175th	Czechia	75.39%	0.0%
176th	Djibouti	75.40%	0.3%
177th	Canada	76.47%	0.1%
178th	Puerto Rico (US)	76.60%	2.4%
179th	Japan	76.81%	0.2%
180th	Belgium	77.06%	0.5%
181st	Libya	77.13%	1.2%
182nd	United Kingdom	78.33%	-0.1%
183rd	Bahamas, The	78.48%	1.1%
184th	Greenland	79.10%	0.7%
185th	United Arab Emirates	79.34%	-0.2%
186th	Germany	79.98%	0.0%
187th	Luxembourg	80.72%	0.0%
188th	Lebanon	81.10%	1.1%
189th	Chile	82.80%	0.1%
190th	Curaçao	82.84%	0.4%
191st	Sweden	83.11%	0.0%
192nd	New Zealand	83.87%	0.1%
193rd	Denmark	84.66%	0.1%
194th	Bahrain	85.02%	1.2%
195th	Australia	85.35%	0.0%
196th	Argentina	85.42%	0.5%
197th	Uruguay	87.59%	0.4%
198th	Northern Mariana Islands	88.85%	0.5%
199th	Iceland	89.56%	0.3%
200th	Guam	89.76%	0.3%
201st	Malta	89.89%	0.1%
202nd	Israel	90.01%	0.1%
203rd	San Marino	90.20%	0.8%
204th	Qatar	90.42%	1.0%
205th	Hong Kong SAR, China	93.33%	0.5%
206th	Andorra	95.39%	0.0%
207th	Kuwait	97.93%	0.0%
208th	Macao SAR, China	99.19%	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 Lesotho's urban population in 1986?▾

Lesotho's urban population in 1986 was 11.30%. This ranked 6th globally.

How did Lesotho's urban population change in 1986?▾

Lesotho's urban population increased by 0.2% in 1986 compared to 1985.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1986?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1986 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Lesotho in 1986?▾

The urban population of Lesotho in 1986 was 11.30%. This ranked 6th globally.

How does 1986 compare to 1985 for Lesotho's urban population?▾

Lesotho's urban population went from 11.28% in 1985 to 11.30% in 1986, a 0.2% increase.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Lesotho matched the Fiscal Dominance Trap pattern in 1986. Historically: 386 occurrences, 278 successful (72%). Outcome 24 months later: 11.5%. View full analysis →

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