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Nigeria - Urban Population 2002

Name: Nigeria Urban Population 2002
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

44.98% +0.85% from 2001 Global rank: 79th

Nigeria's urban population was 44.98% in 2002, increased +0.85% from 44.13% in 2001. This was the 79th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2002▾

Urban Population by Country - 2002
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	8.45%	2.5%
2nd	Uganda	12.20%	2.5%
3rd	Papua New Guinea	13.15%	-0.3%
4th	Sri Lanka	14.61%	0.3%
5th	Liechtenstein	14.81%	-0.6%
6th	Malawi	14.87%	0.6%
7th	Niger	16.27%	0.0%
8th	Solomon Islands	16.40%	2.1%
9th	South Sudan	16.45%	1.2%
10th	Rwanda	16.88%	2.0%
11th	Cambodia	18.80%	0.5%
12th	Afghanistan	18.94%	1.1%
13th	Mali	19.68%	1.9%
14th	Burkina Faso	19.73%	4.6%
15th	Lesotho	20.49%	3.0%
16th	Chad	21.70%	0.1%
17th	Kenya	21.86%	6.9%
18th	Samoa	21.94%	-0.1%
19th	Vanuatu	22.20%	1.2%
20th	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.33%	0.0%
21st	Eswatini	22.57%	-0.6%
22nd	Tanzania	23.03%	1.9%
23rd	Tonga	23.07%	0.1%
24th	Bangladesh	24.11%	1.7%
25th	Lao PDR	24.52%	4.9%
26th	Timor-Leste	24.85%	1.6%
27th	Viet Nam	25.55%	2.4%
28th	Madagascar	25.60%	1.2%
29th	Tajikistan	26.53%	0.0%
30th	St. Lucia	26.94%	-2.1%
31st	Yemen, Republic of	27.58%	1.8%
32nd	Myanmar	27.88%	0.6%
33rd	Comoros	27.96%	-0.1%
34th	India	28.18%	1.0%
35th	Guyana	28.48%	-0.5%
36th	Bhutan	28.96%	2.4%
37th	Mozambique	29.57%	0.5%
38th	Maldives	29.89%	4.7%
39th	Channel Islands	30.58%	0.3%
40th	Antigua and Barbuda	31.23%	-1.7%
41st	Guinea	31.51%	0.9%
42nd	Sudan	32.40%	0.1%
43rd	St. Kitts and Nevis	32.44%	-0.5%
44th	Zimbabwe	32.56%	0.2%
45th	Pakistan	33.39%	0.6%
46th	Namibia	33.65%	2.4%
47th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	33.99%	1.4%
48th	Togo	34.00%	1.3%
49th	Thailand	34.07%	4.1%
50th	Eritrea	34.54%	0.6%
51st	Nepal	35.04%	6.8%
52nd	Kyrgyz Republic	35.31%	0.0%
53rd	Grenada	35.92%	0.0%
54th	Faroe Islands	35.94%	0.0%
55th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	35.94%	1.5%
56th	Sierra Leone	36.01%	0.7%
57th	Zambia	36.07%	0.5%
58th	Guinea-Bissau	37.47%	0.8%
59th	Kosovo	37.53%	0.1%
60th	Central African Republic	37.82%	0.2%
61st	Mauritania	38.39%	0.7%
62nd	Benin	39.00%	1.0%
63rd	China	39.09%	3.8%
64th	Equatorial Guinea	39.20%	0.9%
65th	Moldova	39.62%	-0.1%
66th	Philippines	39.96%	1.1%
67th	Haiti	39.97%	4.1%
68th	Senegal	41.11%	0.6%
69th	Mauritius	41.70%	-0.4%
70th	British Virgin Islands	42.44%	1.0%
71st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.83%	0.1%
72nd	Seychelles	43.09%	-0.3%
73rd	Albania	43.15%	1.9%
74th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	43.20%	0.7%
75th	Kiribati	43.50%	0.0%
76th	Indonesia	43.78%	2.1%
77th	Côte d'Ivoire	43.86%	0.9%
78th	Liberia	44.57%	0.9%
79th	Nigeria	44.98%	1.9%
80th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	45.12%	0.3%
81st	Ghana	45.35%	1.6%
82nd	Guatemala	45.78%	2.5%
83rd	Honduras	46.42%	1.2%
84th	Turkmenistan	46.59%	0.5%
85th	Tuvalu	46.74%	1.4%
86th	Cameroon	47.26%	1.1%
87th	Belize	47.49%	-0.3%
88th	Fiji	48.78%	0.7%
89th	Uzbekistan	49.26%	1.6%
90th	Gambia, The	49.57%	2.5%
91st	Slovenia	50.77%	0.0%
92nd	Azerbaijan	51.21%	0.1%
93rd	Isle of Man	51.73%	-0.2%
94th	Jamaica	52.15%	0.4%
95th	Georgia	52.41%	0.0%
96th	Syrian Arab Republic	52.70%	0.8%
97th	Romania	52.75%	0.0%
98th	Angola	52.89%	2.3%
99th	Morocco	54.22%	0.6%
100th	Botswana	55.01%	1.8%
101st	São Tomé and Principe	55.09%	2.1%
102nd	Nicaragua	55.49%	0.2%
103rd	Kazakhstan	55.50%	-0.5%
104th	Cabo Verde	55.57%	1.4%
105th	Croatia	55.67%	0.0%
106th	Portugal	55.79%	1.3%
107th	Trinidad and Tobago	55.83%	-0.1%
108th	French Polynesia	55.86%	-0.1%
109th	Slovak Republic	55.88%	-0.2%
110th	Serbia	56.46%	0.7%
111th	South Africa	57.67%	1.2%
112th	North Macedonia	57.87%	-0.4%
113th	Mongolia	58.13%	1.6%
114th	Paraguay	58.31%	0.6%
115th	El Salvador	58.35%	1.6%
116th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	59.54%	0.1%
117th	Ireland	59.64%	0.4%
118th	Congo, Republic of	59.97%	0.9%
119th	Türkiye	60.74%	1.4%
120th	Montenegro	61.03%	1.5%
121st	Costa Rica	61.28%	1.9%
122nd	Ecuador	61.29%	0.5%
123rd	Algeria	61.38%	1.3%
124th	Poland	61.76%	0.0%
125th	Barbados	61.97%	-0.5%
126th	New Caledonia	62.41%	0.7%
127th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	62.82%	0.8%
128th	Panama	63.03%	0.6%
129th	Dominican Republic	63.29%	1.6%
130th	Malaysia	64.06%	1.6%
131st	Tunisia	64.28%	0.5%
132nd	Armenia	64.74%	-0.1%
133rd	Hungary	65.04%	0.6%
134th	Aruba	65.28%	-0.1%
135th	Dominica	65.52%	0.2%
136th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	65.93%	1.1%
137th	Suriname	66.73%	0.0%
138th	Lithuania	66.89%	-0.1%
139th	Austria	66.89%	0.1%
140th	Ukraine	67.27%	0.0%
141st	Italy	67.35%	0.1%
142nd	Estonia	67.41%	0.0%
143rd	Finland	67.80%	0.4%
144th	Iraq	67.89%	0.2%
145th	Latvia	67.98%	-0.1%
146th	Cyprus	68.79%	0.0%
147th	Marshall Islands	69.04%	0.6%
148th	Bulgaria	69.49%	0.4%
149th	Belarus	70.88%	0.8%
150th	Oman	71.50%	0.0%
151st	European Union	71.94%	0.3%
152nd	Brunei Darussalam	72.10%	0.6%
153rd	Palau	72.38%	2.6%
154th	Djibouti	72.45%	-0.6%
155th	Greece	73.10%	0.3%
156th	Russian Federation	73.29%	0.1%
157th	Switzerland	73.42%	0.1%
158th	Peru	73.55%	0.5%
159th	Czechia	73.84%	-0.1%
160th	Colombia	75.19%	0.5%
161st	West Bank and Gaza	75.50%	2.4%
162nd	Mexico	75.68%	0.5%
163rd	Cuba	75.85%	0.0%
164th	Spain	76.49%	0.2%
165th	Norway	76.80%	0.5%
166th	France	77.25%	0.5%
167th	Jordan	78.30%	0.0%
168th	Canada	79.10%	0.3%
169th	United States	79.55%	0.3%
170th	United Kingdom	80.11%	0.2%
171st	Germany	80.12%	0.0%
172nd	United Arab Emirates	80.27%	0.7%
173rd	Korea	80.28%	0.5%
174th	Saudi Arabia	80.34%	0.2%
175th	Japan	80.55%	1.8%
176th	Netherlands	80.81%	0.8%
177th	Gabon	81.22%	1.0%
178th	Bahamas, The	81.31%	0.2%
179th	Brazil	81.99%	0.5%
180th	Greenland	82.08%	0.3%
181st	Belgium	82.65%	0.4%
182nd	Sweden	84.13%	0.1%
183rd	Luxembourg	85.20%	0.5%
184th	Australia	85.28%	0.2%
185th	Denmark	85.30%	0.1%
186th	New Zealand	85.81%	0.1%
187th	Turks and Caicos Islands	86.01%	0.8%
188th	Lebanon	86.29%	0.2%
189th	Chile	86.61%	0.1%
190th	Libya	87.63%	0.4%
191st	Bahrain	88.14%	0.3%
192nd	American Samoa	88.43%	-0.1%
193rd	Argentina	89.56%	0.2%
194th	Northern Mariana Islands	90.34%	0.1%
195th	Curaçao	91.10%	0.0%
196th	Israel	91.44%	0.1%
197th	Andorra	91.46%	-0.5%
198th	Uruguay	91.49%	0.1%
199th	Iceland	92.17%	0.1%
200th	Virgin Islands (US)	93.22%	0.3%
201st	Guam	93.42%	0.1%
202nd	Malta	93.44%	0.1%
203rd	San Marino	93.95%	0.1%
204th	Puerto Rico (US)	94.32%	-0.1%
205th	Qatar	96.64%	0.2%
206th	Kuwait	99.51%	0.3%
207th	Bermuda	100.00%	0.0%
208th	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
209th	Gibraltar	100.00%	0.0%
210th	Hong Kong SAR, China	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 Nigeria's urban population in 2002?▾

Nigeria's urban population in 2002 was 44.98%. This ranked 79th globally.

How did Nigeria's urban population change in 2002?▾

Nigeria's urban population increased by 1.9% in 2002 compared to 2001.

Which country had the highest urban population in 2002?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 2002 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Nigeria in 2002?▾

The urban population of Nigeria in 2002 was 44.98%. This ranked 79th globally.

How does 2002 compare to 2001 for Nigeria's urban population?▾

Nigeria's urban population went from 44.13% in 2001 to 44.98% in 2002, a 1.9% increase.

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