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Nepal - Urban Population 2018

Name: Nepal Urban Population 2018
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

65.81% +0.23% from 2017 Global rank: 117th

Nepal's urban population was 65.81% in 2018, increased +0.23% from 65.58% in 2017. This was the 117th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2018▾

Urban Population by Country - 2018
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Papua New Guinea	13.71%	1.4%
2nd	Liechtenstein	14.56%	0.3%
3rd	Malawi	16.02%	0.4%
4th	Niger	16.64%	0.9%
5th	Burundi	17.68%	6.4%
6th	Samoa	18.72%	-1.3%
7th	Sri Lanka	19.32%	0.9%
8th	South Sudan	19.63%	1.4%
9th	Rwanda	21.54%	6.4%
10th	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.34%	0.1%
11th	Tonga	22.70%	-1.2%
12th	St. Lucia	22.93%	5.2%
13th	Chad	23.85%	1.7%
14th	Eswatini	24.06%	1.1%
15th	Vanuatu	24.27%	-2.0%
16th	Antigua and Barbuda	24.78%	-0.3%
17th	Afghanistan	25.00%	0.7%
18th	Burkina Faso	26.08%	0.4%
19th	Tajikistan	26.23%	-0.1%
20th	Solomon Islands	26.29%	3.6%
21st	Guyana	26.42%	0.0%
22nd	Uganda	27.13%	2.7%
23rd	Mali	27.70%	2.3%
24th	Timor-Leste	29.25%	-0.4%
25th	Madagascar	29.92%	0.8%
26th	Myanmar	29.99%	0.3%
27th	Bangladesh	30.52%	1.0%
28th	St. Kitts and Nevis	31.36%	0.1%
29th	Kenya	31.39%	-0.5%
30th	Comoros	31.41%	1.0%
31st	Channel Islands	32.81%	0.1%
32nd	Tanzania	32.83%	1.6%
33rd	Mozambique	32.99%	1.1%
34th	India	33.50%	1.0%
35th	Viet Nam	33.94%	1.7%
36th	Yemen, Republic of	34.21%	1.9%
37th	Sudan	34.38%	0.3%
38th	Kyrgyz Republic	34.94%	-0.2%
39th	Lao PDR	35.21%	2.0%
40th	Eritrea	35.35%	-0.3%
41st	Zimbabwe	35.41%	2.0%
42nd	Guinea	35.86%	0.8%
43rd	Grenada	36.07%	0.2%
44th	Pakistan	36.75%	0.9%
45th	Lesotho	37.57%	2.8%
46th	Cambodia	37.64%	7.5%
47th	Faroe Islands	38.41%	0.2%
48th	Bhutan	38.47%	1.6%
49th	Mauritius	39.35%	-0.3%
50th	Maldives	39.69%	0.9%
51st	Moldova	40.33%	0.9%
52nd	Togo	41.01%	1.1%
53rd	Central African Republic	41.28%	1.1%
54th	Sierra Leone	42.20%	1.2%
55th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.46%	0.0%
56th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	42.49%	0.9%
57th	Kosovo	42.84%	2.6%
58th	Zambia	43.11%	0.9%
59th	Belize	43.16%	-0.6%
60th	Guinea-Bissau	43.44%	1.0%
61st	Seychelles	43.74%	0.6%
62nd	Turkmenistan	47.04%	0.0%
63rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	47.07%	0.3%
64th	Namibia	47.42%	1.3%
65th	Benin	48.00%	1.5%
66th	Senegal	48.90%	2.0%
67th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	48.97%	1.0%
68th	Uzbekistan	50.58%	-0.2%
69th	Côte d'Ivoire	50.87%	0.9%
70th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	50.95%	5.3%
71st	Haiti	51.37%	1.3%
72nd	British Virgin Islands	51.63%	1.4%
73rd	Isle of Man	52.17%	0.0%
74th	Liberia	52.32%	1.0%
75th	Romania	53.14%	-0.4%
76th	Philippines	53.21%	1.2%
77th	Slovak Republic	53.49%	-0.2%
78th	Cameroon	53.63%	0.6%
79th	Guatemala	53.85%	0.1%
80th	Trinidad and Tobago	53.93%	0.0%
81st	Kiribati	54.50%	2.9%
82nd	Thailand	54.58%	10.9%
83rd	Indonesia	55.10%	1.2%
84th	Mauritania	55.13%	1.7%
85th	Slovenia	55.19%	-0.1%
86th	Ghana	55.22%	0.9%
87th	Honduras	55.89%	0.9%
88th	Croatia	56.09%	0.3%
89th	Fiji	56.23%	0.9%
90th	Jamaica	56.30%	0.7%
91st	Albania	56.38%	0.7%
92nd	Azerbaijan	57.18%	1.3%
93rd	Nigeria	58.16%	1.4%
94th	Kazakhstan	58.24%	1.4%
95th	Georgia	58.30%	0.5%
96th	Nicaragua	58.37%	0.3%
97th	Barbados	59.27%	0.0%
98th	Poland	60.05%	-0.2%
99th	North Macedonia	60.16%	0.7%
100th	Tuvalu	60.56%	1.0%
101st	Serbia	60.84%	0.4%
102nd	Gambia, The	61.06%	1.0%
103rd	Portugal	61.12%	0.0%
104th	China	61.50%	2.1%
105th	Morocco	61.57%	0.5%
106th	French Polynesia	61.79%	0.0%
107th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	62.08%	0.4%
108th	Aruba	62.54%	-0.4%
109th	Ecuador	63.04%	0.0%
110th	Ireland	63.08%	0.3%
111th	South Africa	63.38%	0.1%
112th	Congo, Republic of	63.44%	0.1%
113th	Paraguay	63.92%	1.5%
114th	Armenia	64.85%	0.2%
115th	Montenegro	65.09%	0.1%
116th	Panama	65.71%	0.1%
117th	Nepal	65.81%	0.4%
118th	Angola	65.87%	1.2%
119th	Suriname	66.07%	-0.1%
120th	Botswana	66.16%	0.3%
121st	Cyprus	66.83%	-0.1%
122nd	New Caledonia	67.06%	0.1%
123rd	Lithuania	67.15%	0.1%
124th	São Tomé and Principe	67.78%	0.2%
125th	Mongolia	67.87%	-0.1%
126th	Latvia	68.02%	0.1%
127th	Austria	68.10%	0.3%
128th	Tunisia	68.55%	0.4%
129th	Estonia	69.28%	0.4%
130th	Ukraine	69.32%	0.1%
131st	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	69.41%	0.5%
132nd	Italy	69.48%	-0.1%
133rd	Equatorial Guinea	69.84%	0.4%
134th	Iraq	69.88%	0.0%
135th	Cabo Verde	70.40%	1.7%
136th	Hungary	70.47%	0.0%
137th	Dominica	71.04%	0.6%
138th	Djibouti	71.52%	0.3%
139th	El Salvador	71.76%	0.9%
140th	Algeria	71.91%	0.8%
141st	Finland	72.34%	0.5%
142nd	Czechia	72.85%	-0.1%
143rd	Bulgaria	73.60%	0.3%
144th	Dominican Republic	73.76%	-0.2%
145th	Syrian Arab Republic	74.06%	-0.6%
146th	European Union	74.33%	0.2%
147th	Russian Federation	74.54%	0.1%
148th	Malaysia	74.56%	0.4%
149th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	74.80%	0.5%
150th	Brunei Darussalam	74.82%	0.0%
151st	Costa Rica	76.55%	0.7%
152nd	Marshall Islands	76.59%	0.5%
153rd	Cuba	77.02%	0.1%
154th	Belarus	77.21%	0.2%
155th	Colombia	77.28%	0.1%
156th	Mexico	78.03%	0.4%
157th	Greece	78.05%	0.2%
158th	France	78.67%	0.0%
159th	Oman	78.97%	0.8%
160th	Switzerland	79.29%	1.8%
161st	Palau	79.55%	-0.3%
162nd	Spain	79.56%	0.1%
163rd	United States	80.28%	-0.2%
164th	Germany	81.14%	0.2%
165th	Korea	81.38%	-0.1%
166th	Canada	81.55%	0.2%
167th	Bahamas, The	81.96%	-0.1%
168th	Norway	82.25%	0.3%
169th	United Kingdom	82.45%	0.3%
170th	Peru	82.69%	0.6%
171st	Saudi Arabia	83.47%	0.2%
172nd	American Samoa	83.48%	-0.5%
173rd	New Zealand	83.80%	-0.4%
174th	United Arab Emirates	84.86%	0.2%
175th	West Bank and Gaza	85.54%	0.2%
176th	Brazil	86.44%	0.3%
177th	Greenland	86.73%	0.4%
178th	Belgium	86.89%	0.2%
179th	Australia	87.23%	0.1%
180th	Sweden	87.47%	0.3%
181st	Libya	87.82%	0.0%
182nd	Chile	87.96%	0.2%
183rd	Denmark	88.11%	0.1%
184th	Türkiye	88.17%	0.2%
185th	Andorra	88.51%	0.0%
186th	Lebanon	89.27%	0.2%
187th	Gabon	89.45%	0.5%
188th	Jordan	91.20%	0.4%
189th	Curaçao	91.36%	0.0%
190th	Northern Mariana Islands	91.54%	0.1%
191st	Japan	91.64%	0.1%
192nd	Israel	91.65%	0.0%
193rd	Argentina	91.77%	0.1%
194th	Netherlands	92.61%	1.6%
195th	Luxembourg	92.67%	0.6%
196th	Turks and Caicos Islands	92.68%	0.3%
197th	Iceland	93.85%	0.1%
198th	Puerto Rico (US)	93.90%	0.0%
199th	Guam	94.08%	0.0%
200th	Malta	94.72%	0.2%
201st	Virgin Islands (US)	95.07%	0.0%
202nd	Uruguay	95.29%	0.1%
203rd	San Marino	97.10%	0.0%
204th	Qatar	99.08%	0.0%
205th	Bahrain	100.00%	0.0%
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 2018?▾

Nepal's urban population in 2018 was 65.81%. This ranked 117th globally.

How did Nepal's urban population change in 2018?▾

Nepal's urban population increased by 0.4% in 2018 compared to 2017.

Which country had the highest urban population in 2018?▾

Bahrain had the highest urban population in 2018 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Nepal in 2018?▾

The urban population of Nepal in 2018 was 65.81%. This ranked 117th globally.

How does 2018 compare to 2017 for Nepal's urban population?▾

Nepal's urban population went from 65.58% in 2017 to 65.81% in 2018, a 0.4% increase.

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