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Nepal - Urban Population 2019

Name: Nepal Urban Population 2019
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

65.99% +0.18% from 2018 Global rank: 117th

Nepal's urban population was 65.99% in 2019, increased +0.18% from 65.81% in 2018. This was the 117th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2019▾

Urban Population by Country - 2019
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Papua New Guinea	13.93%	1.6%
2nd	Liechtenstein	14.61%	0.3%
3rd	Malawi	16.14%	0.7%
4th	Niger	16.81%	1.0%
5th	Samoa	18.41%	-1.7%
6th	Burundi	18.79%	6.2%
7th	Sri Lanka	19.49%	0.9%
8th	South Sudan	19.91%	1.4%
9th	Tonga	22.33%	-1.6%
10th	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.36%	0.1%
11th	Rwanda	22.97%	6.6%
12th	Vanuatu	23.50%	-3.2%
13th	St. Lucia	24.25%	5.8%
14th	Chad	24.27%	1.8%
15th	Eswatini	24.35%	1.2%
16th	Antigua and Barbuda	24.71%	-0.3%
17th	Afghanistan	25.14%	0.6%
18th	Burkina Faso	26.12%	0.1%
19th	Tajikistan	26.13%	-0.4%
20th	Guyana	26.43%	0.0%
21st	Solomon Islands	27.28%	3.7%
22nd	Uganda	27.84%	2.6%
23rd	Mali	28.35%	2.4%
24th	Timor-Leste	29.11%	-0.5%
25th	Myanmar	30.08%	0.3%
26th	Madagascar	30.30%	1.3%
27th	Bangladesh	30.82%	1.0%
28th	Kenya	31.19%	-0.7%
29th	St. Kitts and Nevis	31.41%	0.2%
30th	Comoros	31.73%	1.0%
31st	Channel Islands	32.82%	0.0%
32nd	Tanzania	33.35%	1.6%
33rd	Mozambique	33.42%	1.3%
34th	India	33.81%	0.9%
35th	Sudan	34.47%	0.3%
36th	Viet Nam	34.62%	2.0%
37th	Kyrgyz Republic	34.88%	-0.2%
38th	Yemen, Republic of	34.91%	2.0%
39th	Eritrea	35.24%	-0.3%
40th	Lao PDR	35.91%	2.0%
41st	Guinea	36.13%	0.8%
42nd	Grenada	36.13%	0.2%
43rd	Zimbabwe	36.18%	2.2%
44th	Pakistan	37.11%	1.0%
45th	Faroe Islands	38.39%	0.0%
46th	Lesotho	38.60%	2.8%
47th	Bhutan	39.07%	1.6%
48th	Mauritius	39.25%	-0.2%
49th	Cambodia	39.58%	5.2%
50th	Maldives	40.05%	0.9%
51st	Moldova	40.77%	1.1%
52nd	Togo	41.45%	1.1%
53rd	Central African Republic	41.78%	1.2%
54th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.48%	0.1%
55th	Sierra Leone	42.70%	1.2%
56th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	42.87%	0.9%
57th	Belize	42.91%	-0.6%
58th	Zambia	43.49%	0.9%
59th	Guinea-Bissau	43.87%	1.0%
60th	Kosovo	44.00%	2.7%
61st	Seychelles	44.00%	0.6%
62nd	Turkmenistan	47.05%	0.0%
63rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	47.20%	0.3%
64th	Namibia	48.00%	1.2%
65th	Benin	48.71%	1.5%
66th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	49.47%	1.0%
67th	Senegal	49.94%	2.1%
68th	Uzbekistan	50.59%	0.0%
69th	Côte d'Ivoire	51.35%	0.9%
70th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	51.64%	1.4%
71st	Haiti	52.01%	1.2%
72nd	Isle of Man	52.18%	0.0%
73rd	British Virgin Islands	52.39%	1.5%
74th	Liberia	52.86%	1.0%
75th	Romania	52.89%	-0.5%
76th	Slovak Republic	53.37%	-0.2%
77th	Philippines	53.72%	1.0%
78th	Trinidad and Tobago	53.93%	0.0%
79th	Cameroon	53.95%	0.6%
80th	Guatemala	54.19%	0.6%
81st	Slovenia	55.45%	0.5%
82nd	Ghana	55.72%	0.9%
83rd	Indonesia	55.74%	1.2%
84th	Thailand	55.93%	2.5%
85th	Mauritania	56.06%	1.7%
86th	Kiribati	56.28%	3.3%
87th	Croatia	56.30%	0.4%
88th	Honduras	56.38%	0.9%
89th	Jamaica	56.70%	0.7%
90th	Fiji	56.71%	0.8%
91st	Albania	56.76%	0.7%
92nd	Azerbaijan	58.13%	1.7%
93rd	Nicaragua	58.54%	0.3%
94th	Georgia	58.63%	0.6%
95th	Nigeria	58.96%	1.4%
96th	Kazakhstan	59.08%	1.4%
97th	Barbados	59.28%	0.0%
98th	Poland	59.96%	-0.2%
99th	North Macedonia	60.63%	0.8%
100th	Serbia	61.05%	0.3%
101st	Portugal	61.11%	0.0%
102nd	Tuvalu	61.24%	1.1%
103rd	Gambia, The	61.64%	0.9%
104th	French Polynesia	61.78%	0.0%
105th	Morocco	61.84%	0.4%
106th	Aruba	62.29%	-0.4%
107th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	62.35%	0.4%
108th	China	62.71%	2.0%
109th	Ecuador	63.06%	0.0%
110th	Ireland	63.27%	0.3%
111th	South Africa	63.41%	0.1%
112th	Congo, Republic of	63.52%	0.1%
113th	Paraguay	64.98%	1.7%
114th	Armenia	65.00%	0.2%
115th	Montenegro	65.17%	0.1%
116th	Panama	65.75%	0.1%
117th	Nepal	65.99%	0.3%
118th	Suriname	66.04%	0.0%
119th	Botswana	66.33%	0.3%
120th	Angola	66.66%	1.2%
121st	Cyprus	66.77%	-0.1%
122nd	New Caledonia	67.16%	0.1%
123rd	Lithuania	67.25%	0.1%
124th	Mongolia	67.83%	-0.1%
125th	São Tomé and Principe	67.91%	0.2%
126th	Latvia	68.07%	0.1%
127th	Austria	68.32%	0.3%
128th	Tunisia	68.82%	0.4%
129th	Ukraine	69.35%	0.1%
130th	Italy	69.51%	0.0%
131st	Estonia	69.58%	0.4%
132nd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	69.73%	0.5%
133rd	Iraq	69.87%	0.0%
134th	Equatorial Guinea	70.12%	0.4%
135th	Hungary	70.46%	0.0%
136th	Dominica	71.44%	0.6%
137th	Cabo Verde	71.63%	1.7%
138th	Djibouti	71.74%	0.3%
139th	El Salvador	72.41%	0.9%
140th	Algeria	72.48%	0.8%
141st	Finland	72.74%	0.6%
142nd	Czechia	72.79%	-0.1%
143rd	Dominican Republic	73.54%	-0.3%
144th	Bulgaria	73.72%	0.2%
145th	Syrian Arab Republic	73.82%	-0.3%
146th	European Union	74.46%	0.2%
147th	Russian Federation	74.62%	0.1%
148th	Brunei Darussalam	74.79%	0.0%
149th	Malaysia	74.84%	0.4%
150th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	75.20%	0.5%
151st	Marshall Islands	76.94%	0.5%
152nd	Costa Rica	77.04%	0.6%
153rd	Cuba	77.07%	0.1%
154th	Belarus	77.46%	0.3%
155th	Colombia	77.46%	0.2%
156th	Greece	78.19%	0.2%
157th	Mexico	78.36%	0.4%
158th	France	78.69%	0.0%
159th	Palau	79.28%	-0.3%
160th	Oman	79.58%	0.8%
161st	Spain	79.63%	0.1%
162nd	United States	80.13%	-0.2%
163rd	Switzerland	80.78%	1.9%
164th	Korea	81.29%	-0.1%
165th	Germany	81.31%	0.2%
166th	Canada	81.74%	0.2%
167th	Bahamas, The	81.83%	-0.2%
168th	Norway	82.49%	0.3%
169th	United Kingdom	82.67%	0.3%
170th	American Samoa	83.05%	-0.5%
171st	Peru	83.10%	0.5%
172nd	Saudi Arabia	83.64%	0.2%
173rd	New Zealand	83.80%	0.0%
174th	United Arab Emirates	85.03%	0.2%
175th	West Bank and Gaza	85.81%	0.3%
176th	Brazil	86.68%	0.3%
177th	Greenland	87.02%	0.3%
178th	Belgium	87.10%	0.2%
179th	Australia	87.30%	0.1%
180th	Sweden	87.71%	0.3%
181st	Libya	87.82%	0.0%
182nd	Chile	88.13%	0.2%
183rd	Denmark	88.21%	0.1%
184th	Andorra	88.54%	0.0%
185th	Türkiye	88.66%	0.6%
186th	Lebanon	89.50%	0.3%
187th	Gabon	89.90%	0.5%
188th	Curaçao	91.37%	0.0%
189th	Jordan	91.52%	0.3%
190th	Israel	91.62%	0.0%
191st	Northern Mariana Islands	91.62%	0.1%
192nd	Japan	91.72%	0.1%
193rd	Argentina	91.86%	0.1%
194th	Turks and Caicos Islands	92.94%	0.3%
195th	Luxembourg	93.26%	0.6%
196th	Netherlands	93.89%	1.4%
197th	Puerto Rico (US)	93.95%	0.1%
198th	Iceland	93.98%	0.1%
199th	Guam	94.08%	0.0%
200th	Malta	94.93%	0.2%
201st	Virgin Islands (US)	95.09%	0.0%
202nd	Uruguay	95.35%	0.1%
203rd	San Marino	97.10%	0.0%
204th	Qatar	99.12%	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 2019?▾

Nepal's urban population in 2019 was 65.99%. This ranked 117th globally.

How did Nepal's urban population change in 2019?▾

Nepal's urban population increased by 0.3% in 2019 compared to 2018.

Which country had the highest urban population in 2019?▾

Bahrain had the highest urban population in 2019 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Nepal in 2019?▾

The urban population of Nepal in 2019 was 65.99%. This ranked 117th globally.

How does 2019 compare to 2018 for Nepal's urban population?▾

Nepal's urban population went from 65.81% in 2018 to 65.99% in 2019, a 0.3% increase.

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