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Malawi - Urban Population 2025

Name: Malawi Urban Population 2025
Creator: World Bank
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

17.48% +0.21% from 2024 Global rank: 213th

Malawi's urban population was 17.48% in 2025, increased +0.21% from 17.27% in 2024. This was the 213th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2025▾

Urban Population by Country - 2025
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Bahrain	100.00%	0.0%
2nd	Bermuda	100.00%	0.0%
3rd	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
4th	Gibraltar	100.00%	0.0%
5th	Hong Kong SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
6th	Kuwait	100.00%	0.0%
7th	Macao SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
8th	St. Martin (French part)	100.00%	0.0%
9th	Monaco	100.00%	0.0%
10th	Nauru	100.00%	0.0%
11th	Singapore	100.00%	0.0%
12th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	100.00%	0.0%
13th	Qatar	99.36%	0.0%
14th	San Marino	97.16%	0.0%
15th	Netherlands	96.01%	0.4%
16th	Malta	95.83%	0.2%
17th	Uruguay	95.65%	0.0%
18th	Virgin Islands (US)	95.39%	0.1%
19th	Luxembourg	95.23%	0.4%
20th	Turks and Caicos Islands	94.42%	0.3%
21st	Puerto Rico (US)	94.30%	0.1%
22nd	Guam	94.19%	0.0%
23rd	Iceland	94.18%	0.0%
24th	Jordan	93.24%	0.3%
25th	Argentina	92.36%	0.1%
26th	Gabon	92.34%	0.5%
27th	Japan	92.29%	0.1%
28th	Northern Mariana Islands	92.17%	0.1%
29th	Israel	91.50%	0.0%
30th	Curaçao	91.44%	0.0%
31st	Lebanon	90.94%	0.3%
32nd	Türkiye	89.30%	0.0%
33rd	Chile	89.17%	0.2%
34th	Sweden	89.09%	0.3%
35th	Andorra	88.97%	0.1%
36th	Denmark	88.79%	0.1%
37th	Greenland	88.58%	0.3%
38th	Brazil	88.12%	0.3%
39th	Libya	87.90%	0.0%
40th	Belgium	87.70%	0.1%
41st	Australia	87.66%	0.1%
42nd	West Bank and Gaza	87.38%	0.3%
43rd	Switzerland	86.59%	1.3%
44th	United Arab Emirates	85.98%	0.2%
45th	Peru	85.61%	0.5%
46th	Saudi Arabia	84.62%	0.2%
47th	New Zealand	83.96%	0.0%
48th	Norway	83.42%	0.1%
49th	United Kingdom	83.33%	0.1%
50th	Canada	82.89%	0.2%
51st	Germany	82.17%	0.2%
52nd	Bahamas, The	81.17%	-0.2%
53rd	Korea	81.16%	0.0%
54th	American Samoa	80.53%	-0.5%
55th	Spain	80.45%	0.2%
56th	United States	80.14%	0.0%
57th	Mexico	80.02%	0.3%
58th	Costa Rica	79.77%	0.6%
59th	Belarus	79.50%	0.4%
60th	Oman	79.32%	-0.2%
61st	Palau	79.23%	0.0%
62nd	Greece	79.13%	0.2%
63rd	Marshall Islands	79.09%	0.5%
64th	France	78.82%	0.0%
65th	Colombia	78.73%	0.3%
66th	Cabo Verde	77.81%	1.3%
67th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	77.38%	0.5%
68th	Malaysia	77.38%	0.6%
69th	Cuba	77.16%	0.0%
70th	Algeria	75.84%	0.7%
71st	El Salvador	75.60%	0.7%
72nd	Russian Federation	75.20%	0.1%
73rd	European Union	75.14%	0.1%
74th	Brunei Darussalam	74.90%	0.0%
75th	Finland	74.58%	0.4%
76th	Bulgaria	74.06%	0.1%
77th	Dominica	73.96%	0.6%
78th	Djibouti	73.24%	0.5%
79th	Czechia	72.78%	0.0%
80th	Dominican Republic	71.99%	-0.6%
81st	Mongolia	71.79%	1.2%
82nd	Equatorial Guinea	71.61%	0.4%
83rd	Syrian Arab Republic	71.60%	-0.7%
84th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	71.52%	0.4%
85th	Angola	71.45%	1.1%
86th	Paraguay	71.11%	1.8%
87th	Estonia	71.02%	0.5%
88th	Tunisia	70.66%	0.4%
89th	Hungary	70.43%	-0.1%
90th	Iraq	69.88%	0.0%
91st	Austria	69.69%	0.3%
92nd	Italy	69.59%	0.0%
93rd	Ukraine	69.55%	0.0%
94th	Lithuania	69.22%	0.6%
95th	São Tomé and Principe	69.04%	0.2%
96th	Latvia	68.55%	0.1%
97th	New Caledonia	68.10%	0.2%
98th	Botswana	67.57%	0.2%
99th	Nepal	66.89%	0.2%
100th	Cyprus	66.66%	0.0%
101st	China	66.64%	1.1%
102nd	Armenia	66.00%	0.3%
103rd	Panama	66.00%	0.0%
104th	Suriname	65.67%	-0.1%
105th	Montenegro	65.62%	0.1%
106th	Tuvalu	65.42%	1.1%
107th	Gambia, The	64.84%	0.8%
108th	Ireland	64.56%	0.3%
109th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	64.15%	0.5%
110th	Congo, Republic of	63.88%	0.0%
111th	Nigeria	63.78%	1.3%
112th	South Africa	63.72%	0.0%
113th	Kiribati	63.52%	1.7%
114th	Ecuador	63.23%	0.0%
115th	Thailand	63.17%	2.1%
116th	Morocco	63.01%	0.3%
117th	North Macedonia	62.94%	0.6%
118th	Serbia	62.73%	0.6%
119th	Kazakhstan	62.73%	1.1%
120th	Aruba	61.73%	-0.1%
121st	Georgia	61.70%	1.0%
122nd	French Polynesia	61.68%	-0.1%
123rd	Mauritania	61.52%	1.5%
124th	Portugal	61.34%	0.0%
125th	Poland	59.96%	0.0%
126th	Barbados	59.56%	0.0%
127th	Fiji	59.55%	0.8%
128th	Nicaragua	59.40%	0.2%
129th	Jamaica	59.37%	0.7%
130th	Indonesia	59.36%	1.0%
131st	Honduras	59.27%	0.8%
132nd	Albania	58.91%	0.6%
133rd	Ghana	58.89%	0.9%
134th	Azerbaijan	58.65%	0.1%
135th	Croatia	57.75%	0.4%
136th	British Virgin Islands	57.32%	1.4%
137th	Senegal	56.58%	2.4%
138th	Guatemala	56.31%	0.6%
139th	Liberia	56.07%	1.0%
140th	Philippines	55.79%	0.6%
141st	Slovenia	55.76%	0.0%
142nd	Cameroon	55.70%	0.5%
143rd	Haiti	55.65%	1.1%
144th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	55.22%	1.1%
145th	Côte d'Ivoire	54.49%	1.0%
146th	Trinidad and Tobago	53.97%	0.0%
147th	Benin	53.30%	1.4%
148th	Slovak Republic	53.17%	0.0%
149th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	52.65%	1.0%
150th	Isle of Man	52.17%	0.0%
151st	Romania	51.98%	-0.4%
152nd	Kosovo	51.63%	2.6%
153rd	Uzbekistan	51.09%	0.2%
154th	Namibia	50.89%	0.9%
155th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	47.98%	0.3%
156th	Turkmenistan	47.09%	0.0%
157th	Guinea-Bissau	46.52%	0.9%
158th	Sierra Leone	45.89%	1.2%
159th	Zambia	45.84%	0.8%
160th	Seychelles	45.58%	0.7%
161st	Congo, Democratic Republic of	45.12%	0.8%
162nd	Lesotho	44.70%	2.3%
163rd	Central African Republic	44.60%	1.1%
164th	Togo	44.24%	1.0%
165th	Moldova	44.08%	1.3%
166th	Bhutan	43.20%	1.5%
167th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.86%	0.1%
168th	Maldives	42.33%	0.8%
169th	Belize	41.50%	-0.6%
170th	Cambodia	41.14%	0.7%
171st	Zimbabwe	40.71%	2.0%
172nd	Lao PDR	40.28%	1.8%
173rd	Pakistan	39.63%	1.2%
174th	Faroe Islands	39.58%	0.4%
175th	Viet Nam	39.47%	2.6%
176th	Mauritius	38.94%	-0.2%
177th	Guinea	38.45%	1.0%
178th	Yemen, Republic of	37.11%	0.8%
179th	Mozambique	37.01%	1.6%
180th	Tanzania	36.66%	1.4%
181st	Grenada	36.64%	0.2%
182nd	India	35.69%	0.9%
183rd	Sudan	34.95%	0.2%
184th	Kyrgyz Republic	34.67%	-0.2%
185th	Eritrea	34.40%	-0.4%
186th	Comoros	33.89%	1.1%
187th	Bangladesh	32.97%	0.9%
188th	Madagascar	32.85%	1.3%
189th	Channel Islands	32.69%	0.0%
190th	Mali	32.29%	2.2%
191st	Kenya	32.01%	0.4%
192nd	Uganda	31.97%	2.2%
193rd	St. Kitts and Nevis	31.87%	0.2%
194th	Rwanda	31.48%	5.3%
195th	Solomon Islands	31.32%	2.2%
196th	St. Lucia	30.60%	5.2%
197th	Myanmar	30.53%	0.2%
198th	Burkina Faso	28.79%	1.6%
199th	Timor-Leste	28.48%	-0.6%
200th	Chad	27.45%	1.9%
201st	Eswatini	26.62%	1.4%
202nd	Guyana	26.49%	0.0%
203rd	Tajikistan	26.18%	0.0%
204th	Burundi	26.02%	4.8%
205th	Afghanistan	25.74%	0.1%
206th	Antigua and Barbuda	24.33%	-0.3%
207th	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.47%	0.1%
208th	Vanuatu	22.22%	-0.3%
209th	South Sudan	21.67%	1.4%
210th	Tonga	20.85%	-1.4%
211th	Sri Lanka	20.46%	0.8%
212th	Niger	18.28%	1.3%
213th	Malawi	17.48%	1.2%
214th	Samoa	17.28%	-1.3%
215th	Papua New Guinea	15.69%	1.8%
216th	Liechtenstein	14.67%	0.1%

FAQ

What was Malawi's urban population in 2025?▾

Malawi's urban population in 2025 was 17.48%. This ranked 213th globally.

How did Malawi's urban population change in 2025?▾

Malawi's urban population increased by 1.2% in 2025 compared to 2024.

Which country had the highest urban population in 2025?▾

Bahrain had the highest urban population in 2025 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Malawi in 2025?▾

The urban population of Malawi in 2025 was 17.48%. This ranked 213th globally.

How does 2025 compare to 2024 for Malawi's urban population?▾

Malawi's urban population went from 17.27% in 2024 to 17.48% in 2025, a 1.2% increase.

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