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Nepal – Urban Population 1998

Share of total population living in areas classified as urban by national statistical offices. Urbanization tends to rise with economic development. · World Bank
27.99% +1.40% from 1997 G20 rank: 35th

Nepal's urban population was 27.99% in 1998, increased +1.40% from 26.59% in 1997. This was the 35th highest in the G20.

G20 Ranking – 1998▾
Urban Population by Country – 1998
RankCountryValueYoY
1st Burundi 7.68% 2.3%
2nd Uganda 11.22% 1.6%
3rd Rwanda 13.33% 12.6%
4th Papua New Guinea 13.50% -1.8%
5th Malawi 14.42% 1.4%
6th Sri Lanka 14.94% -1.7%
7th Solomon Islands 15.23% 1.5%
8th Liechtenstein 15.50% -2.3%
9th South Sudan 15.56% 1.7%
10th Niger 15.97% 0.5%
11th Burkina Faso 16.44% 4.0%
12th Lesotho 18.22% 3.2%
13th Afghanistan 18.24% 0.8%
14th Mali 18.36% 1.5%
15th Cambodia 18.37% 1.0%
16th Kenya 18.88% 0.7%
17th Lao PDR 19.88% 5.5%
18th Vanuatu 21.08% 1.4%
19th Tanzania 21.47% 1.6%
20th Chad 21.59% 0.2%
21st Samoa 21.84% 0.4%
22nd Bangladesh 22.62% 1.5%
23rd Tonga 22.97% 0.2%
24th Eswatini 23.03% -0.1%
25th Micronesia, Federated States of 23.04% -3.3%
26th Viet Nam 23.28% 2.6%
27th Timor-Leste 23.46% 1.3%
28th Madagascar 24.41% 1.3%
29th Yemen, Republic of 25.54% 2.3%
30th Bhutan 26.18% 2.8%
31st Maldives 26.47% 1.7%
32nd Tajikistan 26.81% -1.5%
33rd Myanmar 27.18% 0.7%
34th India 27.18% 0.8%
35th Nepal 27.99% 5.3%
36th Comoros 28.16% -0.2%
37th St. Lucia 28.46% -0.9%
38th Thailand 28.72% 5.6%
39th Mozambique 28.82% 0.9%
40th Guyana 29.03% -0.4%
41st Guinea 30.34% 1.0%
42nd Channel Islands 30.41% 0.0%
43rd Namibia 30.64% 2.3%
44th Zimbabwe 32.10% 0.6%
45th Togo 32.20% 1.4%
46th Somalia, Fed. Rep. 32.21% 1.2%
47th Sudan 32.26% 0.1%
48th Eritrea 32.40% 4.8%
49th Pakistan 32.59% 0.7%
50th St. Kitts and Nevis 33.14% -0.6%
51st Antigua and Barbuda 33.23% -1.5%
52nd China 33.35% 4.5%
53rd Haiti 33.88% 4.3%
54th Congo, Democratic Republic of 33.90% 1.5%
55th Sierra Leone 35.10% 0.6%
56th Kyrgyz Republic 35.38% -0.5%
57th Faroe Islands 35.46% 0.8%
58th Grenada 35.47% 0.9%
59th Guinea-Bissau 36.15% 1.1%
60th Zambia 36.72% -1.7%
61st Kosovo 37.43% 0.1%
62nd Central African Republic 37.61% 0.1%
63rd Benin 37.68% 0.7%
64th Mauritania 38.19% -0.3%
65th Philippines 38.39% 0.9%
66th Equatorial Guinea 38.81% 0.0%
67th Indonesia 39.91% 3.0%
68th Guatemala 39.94% 4.2%
69th Albania 40.20% 1.7%
70th Senegal 40.30% 0.4%
71st Kiribati 40.53% 5.0%
72nd Moldova 40.73% -9.3%
73rd Nigeria 41.60% 2.0%
74th British Virgin Islands 41.72% 0.5%
75th Bosnia and Herzegovina 41.91% 0.8%
76th Côte d'Ivoire 42.35% 0.9%
77th Ghana 42.45% 1.9%
78th Mauritius 42.48% -0.6%
79th Egypt, Arab Republic of 42.66% 0.0%
80th Liberia 43.19% 0.4%
81st Seychelles 43.95% -1.0%
82nd Gambia, The 43.96% 3.6%
83rd Honduras 44.30% 1.1%
84th Tuvalu 44.49% 1.1%
85th St. Vincent and the Grenadines 44.64% 0.3%
86th Cameroon 45.15% 1.3%
87th Turkmenistan 45.39% 0.7%
88th Uzbekistan 45.96% 1.9%
89th Fiji 47.26% 1.0%
90th Belize 47.64% 0.1%
91st Angola 47.99% 2.7%
92nd Slovenia 50.49% 0.2%
93rd Syrian Arab Republic 51.09% 0.7%
94th São Tomé and Principe 51.11% 1.8%
95th Jamaica 51.26% 0.5%
96th Azerbaijan 51.47% -0.9%
97th Botswana 51.74% 1.3%
98th Isle of Man 51.81% 0.0%
99th Cabo Verde 52.22% 1.7%
100th Georgia 52.85% -0.5%
101st Morocco 52.96% 0.7%
102nd Portugal 53.06% 1.3%
103rd Romania 53.22% -0.4%
104th Serbia 54.57% 1.0%
105th South Africa 54.66% 1.2%
106th El Salvador 54.83% 1.6%
107th Nicaragua 54.93% 0.3%
108th Croatia 55.56% 0.2%
109th Trinidad and Tobago 55.90% 0.1%
110th French Polynesia 56.14% -0.2%
111th Slovak Republic 56.33% -0.2%
112th Paraguay 56.33% 1.2%
113th Kazakhstan 56.35% -0.2%
114th Mongolia 56.67% -0.1%
115th Montenegro 56.67% 2.3%
116th Costa Rica 56.87% 2.0%
117th Türkiye 57.29% 1.4%
118th Congo, Republic of 57.81% 0.9%
119th Algeria 58.31% 1.3%
120th Ireland 58.64% 0.4%
121st Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of 59.29% 0.1%
122nd North Macedonia 59.34% -0.4%
123rd Dominican Republic 59.46% 1.4%
124th Malaysia 59.72% 2.1%
125th Ecuador 59.84% 0.8%
126th Bolivia, Plurinational State of 60.91% 0.8%
127th New Caledonia 60.94% 0.5%
128th Panama 61.01% 1.4%
129th Poland 61.71% 0.0%
130th Barbados 62.84% -0.2%
131st Tunisia 62.89% 0.6%
132nd Iran, Islamic Republic of 62.91% 1.3%
133rd Hungary 63.61% 0.5%
134th Dominica 65.07% 0.1%
135th Aruba 65.37% 0.0%
136th Armenia 65.43% -0.5%
137th Finland 66.18% 0.8%
138th Austria 66.51% 0.3%
139th Suriname 66.66% 0.0%
140th Italy 67.03% 0.1%
141st Lithuania 67.11% -0.1%
142nd Iraq 67.49% 0.0%
143rd Ukraine 67.55% -0.1%
144th Estonia 67.65% -0.5%
145th Marshall Islands 67.86% 0.2%
146th Bulgaria 67.87% 0.3%
147th Latvia 68.29% -0.4%
148th Cyprus 68.61% 0.2%
149th Belarus 69.02% 0.6%
150th West Bank and Gaza 69.50% 1.1%
151st Palau 70.17% -0.8%
152nd Brunei Darussalam 70.31% 0.7%
153rd European Union 71.21% 0.2%
154th Oman 71.59% 0.0%
155th Peru 72.02% 0.5%
156th Greece 72.39% 0.2%
157th Switzerland 72.86% 0.5%
158th Russian Federation 73.19% 0.1%
159th Colombia 73.37% 0.7%
160th Djibouti 74.25% -0.6%
161st Czechia 74.25% -0.2%
162nd Mexico 74.27% 0.4%
163rd Cuba 75.31% 0.3%
164th Norway 75.33% 0.8%
165th France 75.89% 0.4%
166th Spain 75.91% 0.1%
167th Netherlands 76.75% 1.6%
168th Gabon 77.80% 1.2%
169th Canada 78.27% 0.2%
170th Jordan 78.28% 0.0%
171st Japan 78.33% 0.1%
172nd United States 78.48% 0.5%
173rd United Arab Emirates 78.60% 0.3%
174th Korea 79.18% 0.2%
175th United Kingdom 79.39% 0.3%
176th Saudi Arabia 79.59% 0.3%
177th Brazil 79.79% 1.0%
178th Germany 80.07% 0.0%
179th Bahamas, The 80.89% 0.1%
180th Greenland 81.12% 0.1%
181st Belgium 81.36% 0.4%
182nd Turks and Caicos Islands 83.01% 1.1%
183rd Luxembourg 83.53% 0.6%
184th Sweden 83.98% 0.0%
185th Denmark 85.09% 0.0%
186th Australia 85.16% 0.0%
187th New Zealand 85.60% 0.1%
188th Chile 85.61% 0.5%
189th Lebanon 85.77% 0.2%
190th Libya 86.04% 0.6%
191st American Samoa 87.86% 1.2%
192nd Bahrain 87.95% -0.1%
193rd Argentina 88.79% 0.2%
194th Curaçao 89.76% 0.9%
195th Northern Mariana Islands 89.87% 0.2%
196th Uruguay 91.08% 0.1%
197th Israel 91.11% 0.1%
198th Virgin Islands (US) 91.12% 1.6%
199th Iceland 91.68% -0.4%
200th Andorra 92.78% -0.2%
201st Guam 92.79% 0.2%
202nd Malta 93.09% 0.1%
203rd San Marino 93.24% 0.4%
204th Puerto Rico (US) 93.97% 0.7%
205th Qatar 95.91% 0.3%
206th Kuwait 98.55% 0.2%
207th Macao SAR, China 99.97% 0.0%
208th Bermuda 100.00% 0.0%
209th Cayman Islands 100.00% 0.0%
210th Gibraltar 100.00% 0.0%
211th Hong Kong 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%
Source: World Bank (SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS)
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