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Nepal - Urban Population 2009

Name: Nepal Urban Population 2009
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

59.86% +2.95% from 2008 Global rank: 108th

Nepal's urban population was 59.86% in 2009, increased +2.95% from 56.91% in 2008. This was the 108th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2009▾

Urban Population by Country - 2009
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	10.50%	3.9%
2nd	Papua New Guinea	13.01%	-0.1%
3rd	Liechtenstein	14.43%	-0.2%
4th	Malawi	15.40%	0.5%
5th	Niger	16.25%	0.0%
6th	Sri Lanka	16.74%	2.9%
7th	Rwanda	16.92%	0.0%
8th	South Sudan	17.29%	1.5%
9th	Uganda	17.61%	6.7%
10th	St. Lucia	18.98%	-4.2%
11th	Solomon Islands	19.56%	2.8%
12th	Samoa	20.10%	-1.5%
13th	Cambodia	20.20%	2.7%
14th	Afghanistan	21.69%	2.7%
15th	Chad	21.78%	0.0%
16th	Eswatini	22.23%	0.3%
17th	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.30%	-0.1%
18th	Mali	22.66%	2.1%
19th	Tonga	23.36%	0.3%
20th	Burkina Faso	23.75%	1.6%
21st	Vanuatu	24.29%	1.5%
22nd	Lesotho	26.26%	4.2%
23rd	Antigua and Barbuda	26.48%	-2.1%
24th	Tajikistan	26.53%	0.0%
25th	Guyana	26.62%	-0.9%
26th	Bangladesh	27.31%	1.6%
27th	Tanzania	27.50%	2.7%
28th	Madagascar	27.59%	1.0%
29th	Comoros	28.62%	0.7%
30th	Myanmar	29.00%	0.5%
31st	Timor-Leste	29.40%	2.1%
32nd	Viet Nam	29.76%	1.8%
33rd	Lao PDR	30.04%	2.2%
34th	Yemen, Republic of	30.30%	1.1%
35th	India	30.52%	1.2%
36th	Mozambique	30.77%	0.7%
37th	St. Kitts and Nevis	31.43%	-0.4%
38th	Kenya	31.86%	1.4%
39th	Channel Islands	32.01%	0.7%
40th	Sudan	32.58%	0.3%
41st	Zimbabwe	32.71%	0.0%
42nd	Bhutan	33.34%	1.8%
43rd	Guinea	33.54%	0.8%
44th	Pakistan	34.63%	0.5%
45th	Kyrgyz Republic	35.28%	0.0%
46th	Eritrea	35.57%	0.2%
47th	Grenada	35.89%	0.0%
48th	Maldives	36.37%	1.2%
49th	Faroe Islands	36.89%	1.2%
50th	Togo	37.12%	1.2%
51st	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	37.84%	1.8%
52nd	Kosovo	37.85%	0.2%
53rd	Sierra Leone	38.25%	1.0%
54th	Central African Republic	38.48%	0.3%
55th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	39.00%	1.0%
56th	Moldova	39.33%	-0.1%
57th	Zambia	39.49%	1.4%
58th	Guinea-Bissau	39.67%	0.9%
59th	Mauritius	40.45%	-0.4%
60th	Namibia	40.85%	2.6%
61st	Benin	42.34%	1.3%
62nd	Seychelles	42.67%	-0.1%
63rd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.94%	-0.1%
64th	Thailand	43.00%	2.6%
65th	Senegal	43.24%	0.9%
66th	Philippines	44.34%	2.7%
67th	Mauritania	44.76%	2.7%
68th	Haiti	45.38%	1.6%
69th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	45.42%	0.7%
70th	Belize	45.46%	-0.7%
71st	British Virgin Islands	45.78%	1.2%
72nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	45.94%	0.3%
73rd	Côte d'Ivoire	46.80%	0.9%
74th	Turkmenistan	46.89%	0.1%
75th	Kiribati	47.35%	3.1%
76th	Liberia	47.62%	1.1%
77th	China	48.34%	2.9%
78th	Indonesia	49.17%	1.5%
79th	Ghana	50.11%	1.3%
80th	Slovenia	50.24%	-0.2%
81st	Cameroon	50.47%	0.8%
82nd	Equatorial Guinea	50.47%	5.1%
83rd	Albania	50.61%	2.5%
84th	Honduras	50.67%	1.3%
85th	Guatemala	50.74%	1.2%
86th	Nigeria	50.86%	1.6%
87th	Fiji	51.56%	0.9%
88th	Uzbekistan	51.61%	-0.4%
89th	Isle of Man	51.73%	0.5%
90th	Azerbaijan	53.14%	0.1%
91st	Jamaica	53.56%	0.4%
92nd	Romania	53.79%	0.3%
93rd	Tuvalu	53.97%	2.2%
94th	Kazakhstan	54.12%	0.0%
95th	Trinidad and Tobago	54.39%	-0.5%
96th	Georgia	54.70%	0.9%
97th	Slovak Republic	54.73%	-0.3%
98th	Syrian Arab Republic	55.03%	0.8%
99th	Croatia	55.31%	-0.1%
100th	Gambia, The	55.34%	1.3%
101st	Nicaragua	56.65%	0.3%
102nd	Morocco	57.73%	1.1%
103rd	North Macedonia	58.03%	0.1%
104th	Serbia	59.16%	0.5%
105th	Barbados	59.29%	-0.3%
106th	Paraguay	59.37%	0.2%
107th	Angola	59.38%	1.4%
108th	Nepal	59.86%	5.2%
109th	French Polynesia	60.07%	1.4%
110th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	60.15%	0.2%
111th	Portugal	60.81%	0.8%
112th	Cabo Verde	60.91%	1.4%
113th	Poland	60.98%	-0.2%
114th	Ireland	61.64%	0.5%
115th	Congo, Republic of	62.22%	0.3%
116th	South Africa	62.26%	0.8%
117th	Ecuador	62.66%	0.2%
118th	Botswana	62.75%	1.5%
119th	Montenegro	64.11%	0.4%
120th	Aruba	64.32%	-0.3%
121st	Armenia	64.35%	0.0%
122nd	El Salvador	64.53%	1.4%
123rd	Panama	64.97%	0.3%
124th	São Tomé and Principe	65.08%	1.9%
125th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	65.98%	0.7%
126th	Tunisia	66.34%	0.4%
127th	Suriname	66.51%	-0.1%
128th	Algeria	66.51%	0.9%
129th	New Caledonia	66.66%	0.5%
130th	Lithuania	66.78%	0.0%
131st	Austria	67.07%	0.0%
132nd	Mongolia	67.37%	1.3%
133rd	Dominica	67.61%	0.6%
134th	Cyprus	67.68%	-0.3%
135th	Estonia	67.73%	0.1%
136th	Latvia	67.83%	0.0%
137th	Türkiye	67.84%	2.0%
138th	Italy	68.05%	0.2%
139th	Hungary	68.46%	0.5%
140th	Ukraine	68.53%	0.2%
141st	Iraq	68.97%	0.2%
142nd	Finland	69.55%	0.4%
143rd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	69.99%	0.9%
144th	Costa Rica	70.14%	2.0%
145th	Malaysia	70.25%	1.0%
146th	Djibouti	70.64%	-0.1%
147th	Bulgaria	71.30%	0.6%
148th	Marshall Islands	72.91%	0.8%
149th	European Union	72.95%	0.2%
150th	Czechia	73.41%	-0.1%
151st	Russian Federation	73.53%	0.1%
152nd	Switzerland	73.57%	0.0%
153rd	Dominican Republic	73.59%	1.5%
154th	Belarus	74.19%	0.9%
155th	Oman	74.53%	1.0%
156th	Brunei Darussalam	75.07%	0.4%
157th	Greece	76.02%	0.5%
158th	Cuba	76.49%	0.2%
159th	Mexico	76.51%	0.0%
160th	Colombia	76.60%	0.2%
161st	Peru	76.82%	0.7%
162nd	France	77.10%	-0.1%
163rd	Spain	78.29%	0.3%
164th	Norway	79.06%	0.4%
165th	Palau	80.22%	0.7%
166th	Germany	80.27%	0.0%
167th	United States	80.69%	0.1%
168th	Canada	80.86%	0.2%
169th	United Kingdom	80.87%	0.1%
170th	Jordan	81.11%	1.2%
171st	Saudi Arabia	81.86%	0.3%
172nd	Korea	81.92%	0.1%
173rd	Bahamas, The	82.40%	0.1%
174th	United Arab Emirates	83.17%	0.2%
175th	West Bank and Gaza	83.51%	0.5%
176th	Greenland	83.86%	0.3%
177th	Brazil	84.07%	0.3%
178th	Belgium	84.70%	0.3%
179th	Sweden	84.93%	0.2%
180th	Gabon	85.74%	0.6%
181st	New Zealand	85.89%	0.0%
182nd	Australia	86.13%	0.1%
183rd	Netherlands	86.22%	0.7%
184th	American Samoa	86.60%	-0.3%
185th	Denmark	86.76%	0.2%
186th	Chile	86.91%	0.0%
187th	Lebanon	87.46%	0.2%
188th	Luxembourg	88.04%	0.5%
189th	Libya	88.13%	0.0%
190th	Andorra	88.84%	-0.1%
191st	Turks and Caicos Islands	89.97%	0.5%
192nd	Japan	90.11%	0.9%
193rd	Argentina	90.82%	0.2%
194th	Northern Mariana Islands	90.87%	0.1%
195th	Curaçao	91.24%	0.0%
196th	Israel	91.73%	0.0%
197th	Iceland	93.44%	0.4%
198th	Puerto Rico (US)	93.77%	0.0%
199th	Uruguay	93.93%	0.5%
200th	Guam	94.07%	0.0%
201st	Malta	94.14%	0.1%
202nd	Virgin Islands (US)	94.48%	0.1%
203rd	San Marino	96.84%	0.5%
204th	Bahrain	98.33%	2.1%
205th	Qatar	98.35%	0.2%
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 Nepal's urban population in 2009?▾

Nepal's urban population in 2009 was 59.86%. This ranked 108th globally.

How did Nepal's urban population change in 2009?▾

Nepal's urban population increased by 5.2% in 2009 compared to 2008.

Which country had the highest urban population in 2009?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 2009 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Nepal in 2009?▾

The urban population of Nepal in 2009 was 59.86%. This ranked 108th globally.

How does 2009 compare to 2008 for Nepal's urban population?▾

Nepal's urban population went from 56.91% in 2008 to 59.86% in 2009, a 5.2% increase.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Nepal matched the Export Boom Cycle pattern in 2009. Historically: 768 occurrences, 546 successful (71%). Outcome 24 months later: 3.4%. View full analysis →

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