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New Zealand - Urban Population 1978

Name: New Zealand Urban Population 1978
Creator: World Bank
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

83.19% +0.13% from 1977 Global rank: 196th

New Zealand's urban population was 83.19% in 1978, increased +0.13% from 83.05% in 1977. This was the 196th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1978▾

Urban Population by Country - 1978
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	4.02%	4.0%
2nd	Rwanda	4.67%	2.6%
3rd	Cambodia	5.82%	4.8%
4th	Uganda	6.57%	0.9%
5th	Burkina Faso	7.28%	6.3%
6th	South Sudan	8.49%	0.0%
7th	Malawi	8.68%	3.1%
8th	Solomon Islands	10.05%	4.0%
9th	Bhutan	10.10%	12.4%
10th	Yemen, Republic of	10.82%	7.4%
11th	Lesotho	11.22%	0.1%
12th	Lao PDR	11.86%	2.3%
13th	Mozambique	11.87%	5.5%
14th	Nepal	12.05%	14.3%
15th	Bangladesh	12.70%	9.5%
16th	Papua New Guinea	13.10%	-0.2%
17th	Niger	13.12%	2.4%
18th	Mali	13.45%	2.3%
19th	Botswana	13.58%	4.1%
20th	Tanzania	13.68%	5.3%
21st	Vanuatu	13.98%	2.8%
22nd	Eritrea	14.04%	1.1%
23rd	Kenya	15.05%	3.8%
24th	Afghanistan	15.13%	2.7%
25th	Timor-Leste	15.68%	3.1%
26th	Guinea-Bissau	16.37%	1.6%
27th	Thailand	16.49%	2.4%
28th	Eswatini	16.84%	5.7%
29th	Madagascar	17.72%	2.3%
30th	China	17.92%	2.1%
31st	Liechtenstein	18.30%	0.0%
32nd	Chad	18.38%	3.4%
33rd	Viet Nam	19.24%	-2.0%
34th	Sudan	19.48%	0.8%
35th	Tonga	20.42%	0.3%
36th	Haiti	20.53%	0.1%
37th	Indonesia	20.79%	3.3%
38th	British Virgin Islands	21.00%	3.4%
39th	Maldives	21.10%	4.6%
40th	Samoa	21.17%	0.1%
41st	Zimbabwe	21.29%	2.4%
42nd	Angola	21.65%	5.7%
43rd	Sri Lanka	21.89%	-0.6%
44th	Cabo Verde	22.39%	1.7%
45th	Comoros	22.45%	1.6%
46th	India	22.78%	1.9%
47th	Guinea	23.49%	3.1%
48th	Gambia, The	23.81%	8.0%
49th	Togo	24.10%	1.2%
50th	Myanmar	24.41%	0.3%
51st	Mauritania	24.93%	6.6%
52nd	Namibia	25.50%	0.3%
53rd	St. Lucia	25.57%	1.8%
54th	Benin	25.68%	3.6%
55th	Nigeria	25.90%	3.0%
56th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	26.23%	1.2%
57th	Equatorial Guinea	26.24%	0.0%
58th	Micronesia, Federated States of	26.37%	0.4%
59th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	26.38%	1.0%
60th	Tuvalu	27.06%	12.9%
61st	Pakistan	27.42%	1.3%
62nd	Sierra Leone	29.31%	1.7%
63rd	Guyana	29.56%	-0.2%
64th	Cameroon	30.44%	3.5%
65th	Ghana	30.65%	0.6%
66th	Kosovo	31.09%	1.7%
67th	Faroe Islands	31.39%	-0.1%
68th	Kiribati	31.58%	3.6%
69th	Channel Islands	32.35%	-0.9%
70th	São Tomé and Principe	32.61%	0.9%
71st	Grenada	32.81%	0.2%
72nd	Malaysia	32.96%	1.7%
73rd	Albania	33.34%	0.7%
74th	Philippines	33.46%	0.6%
75th	Liberia	33.71%	3.4%
76th	Guatemala	33.71%	-1.9%
77th	Honduras	33.91%	1.8%
78th	Antigua and Barbuda	34.28%	0.4%
79th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	34.43%	2.4%
80th	Tajikistan	34.71%	-0.9%
81st	Senegal	35.18%	1.2%
82nd	Central African Republic	35.45%	0.8%
83rd	Virgin Islands (US)	35.69%	5.9%
84th	St. Kitts and Nevis	35.82%	0.3%
85th	Côte d'Ivoire	36.40%	3.1%
86th	Fiji	37.49%	0.5%
87th	Türkiye	38.08%	2.3%
88th	Kyrgyz Republic	38.28%	0.1%
89th	Moldova	38.80%	2.3%
90th	Zambia	39.27%	1.7%
91st	Morocco	39.65%	1.8%
92nd	Portugal	39.97%	1.6%
93rd	Paraguay	40.13%	1.5%
94th	Uzbekistan	40.65%	2.3%
95th	Algeria	41.26%	1.2%
96th	El Salvador	41.81%	1.1%
97th	Costa Rica	42.33%	0.7%
98th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	42.34%	1.6%
99th	Mauritius	42.74%	-0.8%
100th	Montenegro	43.09%	2.8%
101st	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	43.45%	0.1%
102nd	Congo, Republic of	43.79%	3.2%
103rd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	43.83%	0.1%
104th	Dominica	44.34%	2.4%
105th	Ecuador	44.91%	2.3%
106th	Serbia	45.21%	1.2%
107th	Croatia	46.03%	1.4%
108th	Syrian Arab Republic	46.14%	0.7%
109th	Jamaica	46.32%	1.1%
110th	Slovenia	46.73%	2.5%
111th	Turkmenistan	47.42%	-0.2%
112th	South Africa	48.24%	0.1%
113th	Romania	48.41%	1.3%
114th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	48.48%	1.5%
115th	Panama	49.28%	0.4%
116th	Seychelles	49.41%	0.0%
117th	Dominican Republic	49.70%	2.2%
118th	Slovak Republic	50.00%	2.2%
119th	Nicaragua	50.51%	0.7%
120th	Mongolia	50.89%	1.4%
121st	Isle of Man	50.93%	-0.7%
122nd	Tunisia	51.03%	0.6%
123rd	Trinidad and Tobago	51.04%	2.1%
124th	Oman	51.04%	4.5%
125th	Gabon	51.08%	4.7%
126th	Georgia	51.51%	0.9%
127th	Belize	52.32%	-0.6%
128th	North Macedonia	52.58%	1.0%
129th	Azerbaijan	52.95%	0.5%
130th	Korea	53.10%	3.5%
131st	Kazakhstan	53.30%	0.7%
132nd	Austria	53.87%	0.7%
133rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	53.91%	0.9%
134th	Belarus	54.37%	2.2%
135th	Ireland	54.92%	0.6%
136th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	56.82%	0.0%
137th	New Caledonia	56.87%	0.8%
138th	Poland	57.24%	1.0%
139th	Hungary	57.35%	0.5%
140th	Cyprus	57.58%	3.8%
141st	Jordan	57.77%	1.7%
142nd	French Polynesia	59.16%	0.0%
143rd	Lithuania	59.42%	1.8%
144th	Marshall Islands	60.06%	-0.7%
145th	Brunei Darussalam	60.38%	-1.0%
146th	Switzerland	60.43%	0.6%
147th	Bulgaria	60.52%	1.8%
148th	Ukraine	60.98%	1.2%
149th	West Bank and Gaza	61.22%	0.8%
150th	American Samoa	61.75%	1.4%
151st	Palau	61.83%	0.4%
152nd	Barbados	62.00%	2.9%
153rd	Finland	62.88%	0.2%
154th	Saudi Arabia	63.31%	2.6%
155th	Peru	63.61%	0.9%
156th	Colombia	63.75%	0.8%
157th	Iraq	64.28%	1.3%
158th	Netherlands	64.62%	0.1%
159th	Puerto Rico (US)	64.83%	1.6%
160th	Brazil	64.98%	2.3%
161st	Mexico	65.03%	1.1%
162nd	Armenia	65.53%	0.7%
163rd	Aruba	65.80%	0.4%
164th	Suriname	66.03%	0.0%
165th	Italy	66.59%	0.3%
166th	Cuba	66.88%	1.4%
167th	Libya	67.37%	2.7%
168th	European Union	67.47%	0.4%
169th	Latvia	67.57%	0.7%
170th	Greece	68.74%	0.6%
171st	Russian Federation	68.77%	0.8%
172nd	Estonia	69.21%	0.7%
173rd	Czechia	69.73%	-0.9%
174th	Norway	70.10%	0.5%
175th	Spain	70.62%	0.7%
176th	Bahamas, The	71.48%	1.2%
177th	Lebanon	71.66%	2.1%
178th	Djibouti	71.82%	1.2%
179th	France	73.17%	0.1%
180th	United States	73.68%	0.0%
181st	Belgium	73.92%	0.5%
182nd	Greenland	75.19%	0.3%
183rd	Canada	75.58%	0.0%
184th	Japan	76.08%	0.1%
185th	San Marino	77.51%	2.6%
186th	United Kingdom	78.28%	0.3%
187th	Luxembourg	79.53%	0.7%
188th	Bahrain	79.69%	0.4%
189th	Germany	79.88%	0.0%
190th	Chile	80.73%	0.7%
191st	Curaçao	80.75%	0.3%
192nd	Qatar	81.56%	0.7%
193rd	Argentina	82.10%	0.5%
194th	United Arab Emirates	82.62%	-0.9%
195th	Sweden	82.99%	0.1%
196th	New Zealand	83.19%	0.2%
197th	Denmark	83.26%	0.4%
198th	Uruguay	84.09%	0.5%
199th	Australia	85.92%	-0.1%
200th	Northern Mariana Islands	86.57%	0.1%
201st	Iceland	87.67%	0.3%
202nd	Israel	88.11%	0.5%
203rd	Guam	88.77%	0.0%
204th	Malta	89.52%	0.0%
205th	Hong Kong SAR, China	90.74%	0.4%
206th	Andorra	90.76%	1.4%
207th	Kuwait	92.92%	1.2%
208th	Macao SAR, China	98.23%	0.1%
209th	Bermuda	100.00%	0.0%
210th	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
211th	Gibraltar	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 New Zealand's urban population in 1978?▾

New Zealand's urban population in 1978 was 83.19%. This ranked 196th globally.

How did New Zealand's urban population change in 1978?▾

New Zealand's urban population increased by 0.2% in 1978 compared to 1977.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1978?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1978 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of New Zealand in 1978?▾

The urban population of New Zealand in 1978 was 83.19%. This ranked 196th globally.

How does 1978 compare to 1977 for New Zealand's urban population?▾

New Zealand's urban population went from 83.05% in 1977 to 83.19% in 1978, a 0.2% increase.

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