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Nepal - Urban Population 2023

Name: Nepal Urban Population 2023
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

66.54% +0.24% from 2022 Global rank: 117th

Nepal's urban population was 66.54% in 2023, increased +0.24% from 66.30% in 2022. This was the 117th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2023▾

Urban Population by Country - 2023
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Liechtenstein	14.68%	-0.1%
2nd	Papua New Guinea	15.06%	2.2%
3rd	Malawi	16.97%	1.6%
4th	Samoa	17.50%	0.0%
5th	Niger	17.75%	1.6%
6th	Sri Lanka	20.15%	0.8%
7th	South Sudan	21.07%	1.4%
8th	Tonga	21.15%	0.0%
9th	Vanuatu	22.27%	0.0%
10th	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.43%	0.1%
11th	Burundi	23.55%	5.5%
12th	Antigua and Barbuda	24.45%	-0.3%
13th	Afghanistan	25.47%	0.3%
14th	Eswatini	25.81%	1.6%
15th	Tajikistan	26.19%	0.0%
16th	Chad	26.33%	2.2%
17th	Guyana	26.47%	0.0%
18th	Burkina Faso	27.79%	1.9%
19th	Timor-Leste	28.60%	0.0%
20th	Rwanda	28.86%	3.9%
21st	St. Lucia	29.10%	0.0%
22nd	Solomon Islands	30.01%	2.2%
23rd	Myanmar	30.38%	0.2%
24th	Uganda	30.61%	2.3%
25th	Mali	31.00%	2.0%
26th	Kenya	31.63%	0.6%
27th	St. Kitts and Nevis	31.70%	0.3%
28th	Madagascar	31.98%	1.4%
29th	Bangladesh	32.16%	1.5%
30th	Channel Islands	32.76%	-0.1%
31st	Comoros	33.15%	1.1%
32nd	Eritrea	34.70%	-0.4%
33rd	Kyrgyz Republic	34.71%	0.0%
34th	Sudan	34.80%	0.2%
35th	India	35.07%	0.9%
36th	Tanzania	35.47%	1.9%
37th	Mozambique	35.71%	1.9%
38th	Grenada	36.46%	0.3%
39th	Yemen, Republic of	36.57%	0.7%
40th	Guinea	37.65%	1.1%
41st	Viet Nam	38.13%	1.6%
42nd	Lao PDR	38.81%	1.9%
43rd	Pakistan	38.82%	1.2%
44th	Mauritius	39.00%	0.0%
45th	Faroe Islands	39.20%	0.5%
46th	Zimbabwe	39.29%	1.5%
47th	Cambodia	40.63%	0.6%
48th	Maldives	41.51%	1.1%
49th	Bhutan	41.74%	2.0%
50th	Belize	41.95%	-0.5%
51st	Lesotho	42.68%	2.4%
52nd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.71%	0.2%
53rd	Moldova	43.00%	1.4%
54th	Togo	43.25%	1.2%
55th	Central African Republic	43.70%	1.0%
56th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	44.38%	0.8%
57th	Sierra Leone	44.81%	1.2%
58th	Zambia	45.03%	1.0%
59th	Seychelles	45.10%	0.4%
60th	Guinea-Bissau	45.59%	1.0%
61st	Turkmenistan	47.07%	0.0%
62nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	47.72%	0.3%
63rd	Kosovo	49.11%	2.7%
64th	Namibia	49.95%	0.9%
65th	Uzbekistan	51.00%	0.0%
66th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.57%	1.1%
67th	Benin	51.75%	1.5%
68th	Romania	52.16%	0.0%
69th	Isle of Man	52.18%	0.0%
70th	Slovak Republic	53.19%	0.0%
71st	Côte d'Ivoire	53.41%	1.1%
72nd	Trinidad and Tobago	53.95%	0.0%
73rd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	54.07%	1.1%
74th	Haiti	54.45%	1.1%
75th	Senegal	54.70%	2.3%
76th	Liberia	55.00%	1.0%
77th	Philippines	55.12%	0.6%
78th	Cameroon	55.13%	0.5%
79th	Slovenia	55.54%	0.4%
80th	Guatemala	55.61%	0.6%
81st	British Virgin Islands	55.64%	1.5%
82nd	Croatia	57.24%	0.4%
83rd	Ghana	57.81%	1.0%
84th	Indonesia	58.12%	1.1%
85th	Albania	58.21%	0.6%
86th	Honduras	58.31%	0.8%
87th	Jamaica	58.45%	0.8%
88th	Azerbaijan	58.51%	0.1%
89th	Fiji	58.61%	0.8%
90th	Nicaragua	59.13%	0.2%
91st	Barbados	59.42%	0.1%
92nd	Mauritania	59.71%	1.5%
93rd	Poland	59.89%	0.1%
94th	Georgia	60.75%	1.2%
95th	Thailand	60.93%	2.0%
96th	Portugal	61.20%	0.1%
97th	Kiribati	61.52%	1.6%
98th	French Polynesia	61.70%	0.0%
99th	Kazakhstan	61.76%	0.5%
100th	Aruba	61.84%	-0.1%
101st	Serbia	62.14%	0.4%
102nd	Nigeria	62.17%	1.3%
103rd	North Macedonia	62.25%	0.5%
104th	Morocco	62.67%	0.3%
105th	Ecuador	63.13%	0.1%
106th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	63.54%	0.5%
107th	South Africa	63.58%	0.2%
108th	Congo, Republic of	63.66%	0.0%
109th	Gambia, The	63.80%	0.8%
110th	Tuvalu	64.01%	1.1%
111th	Ireland	64.12%	0.3%
112th	Montenegro	65.47%	0.1%
113th	China	65.53%	0.5%
114th	Armenia	65.70%	0.2%
115th	Suriname	65.76%	-0.2%
116th	Panama	65.86%	0.1%
117th	Nepal	66.54%	0.4%
118th	Cyprus	66.67%	0.0%
119th	Botswana	67.02%	0.6%
120th	New Caledonia	67.75%	0.3%
121st	Latvia	68.36%	0.1%
122nd	Lithuania	68.58%	0.4%
123rd	São Tomé and Principe	68.60%	0.3%
124th	Austria	69.23%	0.3%
125th	Paraguay	69.35%	1.0%
126th	Ukraine	69.48%	0.1%
127th	Italy	69.54%	0.1%
128th	Angola	69.85%	1.2%
129th	Iraq	69.87%	0.0%
130th	Tunisia	70.03%	0.5%
131st	Hungary	70.29%	0.2%
132nd	Mongolia	70.45%	0.9%
133rd	Estonia	70.68%	0.3%
134th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	70.92%	0.4%
135th	Equatorial Guinea	71.13%	0.3%
136th	Syrian Arab Republic	72.17%	-0.6%
137th	Dominican Republic	72.36%	-0.1%
138th	Czechia	72.74%	0.1%
139th	Djibouti	72.84%	0.3%
140th	Dominica	73.11%	0.6%
141st	Bulgaria	73.73%	0.3%
142nd	Finland	74.01%	0.4%
143rd	El Salvador	74.61%	0.6%
144th	Algeria	74.73%	0.7%
145th	Brunei Darussalam	74.82%	0.1%
146th	European Union	74.89%	0.2%
147th	Russian Federation	74.98%	0.2%
148th	Cabo Verde	75.91%	1.2%
149th	Malaysia	76.44%	0.6%
150th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	76.68%	0.4%
151st	Cuba	77.13%	0.0%
152nd	Colombia	78.28%	0.3%
153rd	Marshall Islands	78.36%	0.5%
154th	Greece	78.77%	0.3%
155th	France	78.78%	0.0%
156th	Belarus	78.81%	0.4%
157th	Costa Rica	78.88%	0.6%
158th	Palau	79.15%	0.1%
159th	Mexico	79.47%	0.3%
160th	Oman	79.57%	-0.6%
161st	United States	80.07%	0.0%
162nd	Spain	80.13%	0.2%
163rd	Korea	81.16%	0.0%
164th	Bahamas, The	81.32%	0.0%
165th	American Samoa	81.37%	-0.5%
166th	Germany	81.90%	0.1%
167th	Canada	82.53%	0.2%
168th	Norway	83.07%	0.1%
169th	United Kingdom	83.16%	0.1%
170th	New Zealand	83.89%	0.0%
171st	Saudi Arabia	84.30%	0.2%
172nd	Peru	84.78%	0.5%
173rd	Switzerland	85.19%	0.3%
174th	United Arab Emirates	85.67%	0.2%
175th	West Bank and Gaza	86.86%	0.3%
176th	Australia	87.49%	0.2%
177th	Belgium	87.55%	0.1%
178th	Brazil	87.62%	0.3%
179th	Libya	87.86%	0.0%
180th	Greenland	88.06%	0.3%
181st	Denmark	88.55%	0.2%
182nd	Sweden	88.63%	0.3%
183rd	Chile	88.82%	0.2%
184th	Andorra	88.82%	0.1%
185th	Türkiye	89.02%	0.0%
186th	Lebanon	90.45%	0.3%
187th	Curaçao	91.41%	0.0%
188th	Israel	91.51%	0.0%
189th	Gabon	91.64%	0.5%
190th	Northern Mariana Islands	91.98%	0.1%
191st	Japan	92.08%	0.1%
192nd	Argentina	92.19%	0.1%
193rd	Jordan	92.68%	0.3%
194th	Turks and Caicos Islands	93.93%	0.3%
195th	Guam	94.13%	0.0%
196th	Iceland	94.15%	0.0%
197th	Puerto Rico (US)	94.18%	0.1%
198th	Luxembourg	94.80%	0.0%
199th	Virgin Islands (US)	95.27%	0.1%
200th	Netherlands	95.32%	0.4%
201st	Uruguay	95.54%	0.0%
202nd	Malta	95.63%	0.0%
203rd	San Marino	97.13%	0.0%
204th	Qatar	99.28%	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 2023?▾

Nepal's urban population in 2023 was 66.54%. This ranked 117th globally.

How did Nepal's urban population change in 2023?▾

Nepal's urban population increased by 0.4% in 2023 compared to 2022.

Which country had the highest urban population in 2023?▾

Bahrain had the highest urban population in 2023 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Nepal in 2023?▾

The urban population of Nepal in 2023 was 66.54%. This ranked 117th globally.

How does 2023 compare to 2022 for Nepal's urban population?▾

Nepal's urban population went from 66.30% in 2022 to 66.54% in 2023, a 0.4% increase.

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