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Nigeria - Urban Population 1972

Name: Nigeria Urban Population 1972
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

21.57% +0.69% from 1971 Global rank: 50th

Nigeria's urban population was 21.57% in 1972, increased +0.69% from 20.89% in 1971. This was the 50th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1972▾

Urban Population by Country - 1972
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	3.14%	4.5%
2nd	Rwanda	3.55%	5.3%
3rd	Bhutan	4.09%	16.6%
4th	Nepal	4.33%	8.4%
5th	Burkina Faso	6.10%	1.6%
6th	Uganda	6.29%	0.9%
7th	Malawi	6.53%	6.7%
8th	Yemen, Republic of	6.90%	7.4%
9th	Solomon Islands	7.91%	4.9%
10th	Tanzania	8.03%	13.4%
11th	Bangladesh	8.09%	4.8%
12th	Mozambique	8.32%	6.9%
13th	South Sudan	8.51%	-0.1%
14th	Lao PDR	10.19%	3.5%
15th	Lesotho	10.22%	4.9%
16th	Niger	10.27%	6.3%
17th	Botswana	10.57%	6.9%
18th	Kenya	11.16%	5.3%
19th	Mali	11.49%	3.3%
20th	Papua New Guinea	11.68%	5.3%
21st	Vanuatu	11.75%	3.1%
22nd	Eswatini	11.75%	7.9%
23rd	Afghanistan	12.16%	4.3%
24th	Chad	12.48%	4.9%
25th	Timor-Leste	12.97%	3.2%
26th	Eritrea	13.13%	1.3%
27th	Maldives	13.47%	7.9%
28th	Thailand	13.92%	2.6%
29th	Tuvalu	14.60%	0.5%
30th	Madagascar	15.05%	3.5%
31st	Gambia, The	15.14%	7.0%
32nd	Guinea-Bissau	15.21%	0.8%
33rd	Angola	15.76%	4.6%
34th	China	17.13%	-0.7%
35th	Mauritania	17.30%	6.9%
36th	Indonesia	17.45%	2.1%
37th	British Virgin Islands	17.52%	2.9%
38th	Sudan	18.27%	2.0%
39th	Liechtenstein	18.35%	-0.1%
40th	Zimbabwe	18.40%	2.7%
41st	Guinea	18.76%	4.8%
42nd	Benin	19.81%	5.6%
43rd	Tonga	20.22%	0.1%
44th	India	20.28%	1.5%
45th	Haiti	20.39%	0.6%
46th	Cabo Verde	20.47%	2.3%
47th	Comoros	20.48%	1.7%
48th	Viet Nam	20.60%	-0.3%
49th	Samoa	20.73%	0.7%
50th	Nigeria	21.57%	3.3%
51st	Togo	22.24%	1.9%
52nd	Sri Lanka	22.44%	0.0%
53rd	Cameroon	22.73%	6.3%
54th	St. Lucia	22.77%	1.7%
55th	Myanmar	23.78%	0.9%
56th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	24.30%	2.2%
57th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	24.54%	1.1%
58th	Kiribati	25.10%	1.2%
59th	Namibia	25.11%	0.3%
60th	Pakistan	25.35%	1.1%
61st	Micronesia, Federated States of	25.50%	0.6%
62nd	Virgin Islands (US)	25.57%	3.2%
63rd	Sierra Leone	25.92%	3.0%
64th	Equatorial Guinea	26.21%	0.0%
65th	Kosovo	27.68%	2.3%
66th	Liberia	27.77%	3.2%
67th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	28.99%	3.1%
68th	Faroe Islands	29.23%	2.2%
69th	Cambodia	29.36%	30.2%
70th	Ghana	29.54%	0.9%
71st	Côte d'Ivoire	29.54%	2.4%
72nd	Guyana	30.04%	-0.2%
73rd	Malaysia	30.14%	1.2%
74th	Honduras	30.22%	2.6%
75th	Central African Republic	30.67%	5.5%
76th	São Tomé and Principe	30.81%	1.5%
77th	Albania	31.98%	0.6%
78th	Philippines	32.29%	0.6%
79th	Türkiye	32.32%	3.3%
80th	Grenada	32.41%	0.3%
81st	Senegal	32.51%	1.8%
82nd	Zambia	33.19%	4.0%
83rd	Antigua and Barbuda	33.72%	0.1%
84th	Moldova	33.84%	3.2%
85th	Channel Islands	34.51%	-1.2%
86th	St. Kitts and Nevis	34.73%	0.8%
87th	Montenegro	35.54%	3.2%
88th	Morocco	35.70%	2.0%
89th	Fiji	36.03%	1.0%
90th	Portugal	36.33%	1.6%
91st	Guatemala	36.37%	0.4%
92nd	Gabon	36.49%	6.8%
93rd	Tajikistan	36.78%	-0.6%
94th	Uzbekistan	37.10%	1.1%
95th	Paraguay	37.41%	0.6%
96th	Oman	37.57%	6.3%
97th	Kyrgyz Republic	37.77%	0.4%
98th	Congo, Republic of	38.90%	0.8%
99th	Slovenia	39.06%	2.9%
100th	Dominica	39.22%	1.1%
101st	El Salvador	39.73%	0.5%
102nd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	39.77%	0.8%
103rd	Algeria	39.82%	0.3%
104th	Costa Rica	40.16%	1.6%
105th	Ecuador	40.28%	1.2%
106th	Cyprus	41.49%	1.9%
107th	Serbia	41.53%	1.8%
108th	Seychelles	41.73%	4.0%
109th	Croatia	41.98%	1.9%
110th	Trinidad and Tobago	42.24%	4.3%
111th	Dominican Republic	42.55%	2.9%
112th	Jamaica	42.85%	1.7%
113th	Slovak Republic	43.00%	2.5%
114th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	43.13%	0.6%
115th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	43.16%	0.2%
116th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	43.34%	2.1%
117th	Korea	43.79%	3.4%
118th	Romania	43.91%	2.2%
119th	Mauritius	44.10%	0.1%
120th	Syrian Arab Republic	44.11%	0.8%
121st	Mongolia	46.43%	1.6%
122nd	Belarus	46.57%	3.0%
123rd	Tunisia	47.23%	2.7%
124th	Turkmenistan	47.85%	-0.1%
125th	South Africa	47.91%	0.1%
126th	Panama	48.15%	0.5%
127th	Nicaragua	48.27%	0.9%
128th	Barbados	48.40%	3.9%
129th	Georgia	48.62%	0.7%
130th	North Macedonia	49.05%	1.6%
131st	Azerbaijan	50.70%	0.7%
132nd	Kazakhstan	51.25%	0.7%
133rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	51.76%	0.6%
134th	Austria	52.12%	0.5%
135th	Jordan	52.40%	1.6%
136th	Lithuania	52.63%	2.5%
137th	Ireland	52.76%	0.8%
138th	Poland	53.18%	1.2%
139th	Saudi Arabia	53.19%	3.8%
140th	New Caledonia	53.29%	1.6%
141st	Belize	54.06%	-0.3%
142nd	Libya	54.35%	7.8%
143rd	Isle of Man	55.01%	-1.1%
144th	Bulgaria	55.17%	2.5%
145th	French Polynesia	55.35%	2.0%
146th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	55.57%	1.2%
147th	Brazil	55.66%	2.5%
148th	Hungary	55.77%	0.4%
149th	Ukraine	56.61%	1.6%
150th	American Samoa	56.66%	1.8%
151st	West Bank and Gaza	57.15%	1.8%
152nd	Switzerland	58.33%	0.7%
153rd	Puerto Rico (US)	58.86%	1.8%
154th	Iraq	59.01%	1.7%
155th	Peru	59.57%	1.5%
156th	Palau	59.84%	1.2%
157th	Marshall Islands	59.93%	4.3%
158th	Colombia	60.00%	1.5%
159th	Mexico	60.59%	1.3%
160th	Finland	61.09%	0.7%
161st	Cuba	61.28%	1.0%
162nd	Armenia	61.54%	1.5%
163rd	Lebanon	62.53%	2.5%
164th	Netherlands	63.07%	0.4%
165th	Aruba	63.44%	0.8%
166th	Brunei Darussalam	63.54%	-0.1%
167th	San Marino	63.82%	3.6%
168th	Latvia	64.00%	1.0%
169th	Russian Federation	64.16%	1.5%
170th	Italy	65.10%	0.5%
171st	European Union	65.51%	0.7%
172nd	Greece	65.60%	0.9%
173rd	Djibouti	65.61%	1.9%
174th	Czechia	65.71%	1.1%
175th	Suriname	65.95%	0.0%
176th	Estonia	66.11%	0.9%
177th	Bahamas, The	66.14%	1.4%
178th	Norway	67.12%	1.0%
179th	Spain	67.39%	0.9%
180th	Belgium	71.47%	0.6%
181st	France	72.31%	0.6%
182nd	United States	73.56%	0.0%
183rd	Japan	73.68%	1.3%
184th	Greenland	73.73%	0.4%
185th	Luxembourg	75.51%	0.8%
186th	Canada	76.02%	-0.1%
187th	Chile	76.65%	0.9%
188th	United Kingdom	76.97%	0.1%
189th	Bahrain	78.19%	0.1%
190th	Qatar	78.38%	0.8%
191st	Curaçao	79.34%	0.3%
192nd	Germany	79.73%	0.0%
193rd	Argentina	79.74%	0.6%
194th	Denmark	80.78%	0.7%
195th	Andorra	81.40%	2.3%
196th	New Zealand	81.93%	0.5%
197th	Sweden	81.99%	0.4%
198th	Uruguay	82.34%	0.2%
199th	United Arab Emirates	82.64%	0.8%
200th	Kuwait	83.54%	2.3%
201st	Israel	85.34%	0.6%
202nd	Australia	85.70%	0.2%
203rd	Iceland	85.75%	0.5%
204th	Northern Mariana Islands	86.39%	3.6%
205th	Hong Kong SAR, China	88.34%	0.4%
206th	Guam	88.75%	0.0%
207th	Malta	89.38%	0.0%
208th	Macao SAR, China	97.34%	0.2%
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 Nigeria's urban population in 1972?▾

Nigeria's urban population in 1972 was 21.57%. This ranked 50th globally.

How did Nigeria's urban population change in 1972?▾

Nigeria's urban population increased by 3.3% in 1972 compared to 1971.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1972?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1972 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Nigeria in 1972?▾

The urban population of Nigeria in 1972 was 21.57%. This ranked 50th globally.

How does 1972 compare to 1971 for Nigeria's urban population?▾

Nigeria's urban population went from 20.89% in 1971 to 21.57% in 1972, a 3.3% increase.

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