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Sierra Leone - Urban Population 2020

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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

43.21% +0.51% from 2019 Global rank: 56th

Sierra Leone's urban population was 43.21% in 2020, increased +0.51% from 42.70% in 2019. This was the 56th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2020▾

Urban Population by Country - 2020
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Papua New Guinea	14.17%	1.7%
2nd	Liechtenstein	14.67%	0.4%
3rd	Malawi	16.30%	1.0%
4th	Niger	17.01%	1.2%
5th	Samoa	18.05%	-2.0%
6th	Sri Lanka	19.66%	0.9%
7th	Burundi	19.93%	6.1%
8th	South Sudan	20.19%	1.4%
9th	Tonga	21.88%	-2.0%
10th	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.38%	0.1%
11th	Vanuatu	22.42%	-4.6%
12th	Rwanda	24.50%	6.7%
13th	Antigua and Barbuda	24.64%	-0.3%
14th	Eswatini	24.67%	1.3%
15th	Chad	24.73%	1.9%
16th	Afghanistan	25.26%	0.5%
17th	St. Lucia	25.75%	6.2%
18th	Tajikistan	26.19%	0.2%
19th	Burkina Faso	26.36%	0.9%
20th	Guyana	26.43%	0.0%
21st	Solomon Islands	28.03%	2.8%
22nd	Uganda	28.54%	2.5%
23rd	Timor-Leste	28.96%	-0.5%
24th	Mali	29.02%	2.4%
25th	Myanmar	30.16%	0.3%
26th	Madagascar	30.70%	1.3%
27th	Bangladesh	31.12%	1.0%
28th	Kenya	31.21%	0.1%
29th	St. Kitts and Nevis	31.47%	0.2%
30th	Comoros	32.06%	1.1%
31st	Channel Islands	32.82%	0.0%
32nd	Tanzania	33.85%	1.5%
33rd	Mozambique	33.90%	1.5%
34th	India	34.13%	0.9%
35th	Sudan	34.56%	0.3%
36th	Kyrgyz Republic	34.82%	-0.2%
37th	Eritrea	35.12%	-0.3%
38th	Viet Nam	35.57%	2.7%
39th	Yemen, Republic of	35.70%	2.3%
40th	Grenada	36.21%	0.2%
41st	Guinea	36.48%	1.0%
42nd	Lao PDR	36.62%	2.0%
43rd	Zimbabwe	37.01%	2.3%
44th	Pakistan	37.51%	1.1%
45th	Faroe Islands	38.67%	0.7%
46th	Mauritius	39.16%	-0.2%
47th	Lesotho	39.63%	2.7%
48th	Bhutan	39.69%	1.6%
49th	Cambodia	39.83%	0.6%
50th	Maldives	40.40%	0.9%
51st	Moldova	41.34%	1.4%
52nd	Togo	41.88%	1.0%
53rd	Central African Republic	42.31%	1.3%
54th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.52%	0.1%
55th	Belize	42.65%	-0.6%
56th	Sierra Leone	43.21%	1.2%
57th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	43.25%	0.9%
58th	Zambia	43.86%	0.9%
59th	Seychelles	44.29%	0.7%
60th	Guinea-Bissau	44.30%	1.0%
61st	Kosovo	45.23%	2.8%
62nd	Turkmenistan	47.05%	0.0%
63rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	47.33%	0.3%
64th	Namibia	48.55%	1.1%
65th	Benin	49.45%	1.5%
66th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	49.97%	1.0%
67th	Uzbekistan	50.77%	0.3%
68th	Senegal	51.06%	2.2%
69th	Côte d'Ivoire	51.84%	0.9%
70th	Isle of Man	52.19%	0.0%
71st	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	52.29%	1.2%
72nd	Romania	52.61%	-0.5%
73rd	Haiti	52.63%	1.2%
74th	British Virgin Islands	53.17%	1.5%
75th	Slovak Republic	53.25%	-0.2%
76th	Liberia	53.39%	1.0%
77th	Trinidad and Tobago	53.94%	0.0%
78th	Philippines	54.11%	0.7%
79th	Cameroon	54.26%	0.6%
80th	Guatemala	54.55%	0.7%
81st	Slovenia	55.38%	-0.1%
82nd	Ghana	56.22%	0.9%
83rd	Indonesia	56.28%	1.0%
84th	Croatia	56.53%	0.4%
85th	Honduras	56.87%	0.9%
86th	Mauritania	56.98%	1.6%
87th	Jamaica	57.11%	0.7%
88th	Albania	57.14%	0.7%
89th	Fiji	57.19%	0.8%
90th	Thailand	57.24%	2.3%
91st	Azerbaijan	58.29%	0.3%
92nd	Kiribati	58.41%	3.8%
93rd	Nicaragua	58.70%	0.3%
94th	Georgia	59.00%	0.6%
95th	Barbados	59.30%	0.0%
96th	Nigeria	59.77%	1.4%
97th	Poland	59.87%	-0.1%
98th	Kazakhstan	59.99%	1.5%
99th	Portugal	61.10%	0.0%
100th	North Macedonia	61.16%	0.9%
101st	Serbia	61.22%	0.3%
102nd	French Polynesia	61.77%	0.0%
103rd	Tuvalu	61.92%	1.1%
104th	Aruba	62.00%	-0.5%
105th	Morocco	62.09%	0.4%
106th	Gambia, The	62.21%	0.9%
107th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	62.64%	0.5%
108th	Ecuador	63.08%	0.0%
109th	South Africa	63.44%	0.0%
110th	Ireland	63.47%	0.3%
111th	China	63.52%	1.3%
112th	Congo, Republic of	63.58%	0.1%
113th	Armenia	65.17%	0.3%
114th	Montenegro	65.25%	0.1%
115th	Panama	65.79%	0.1%
116th	Suriname	66.01%	0.0%
117th	Nepal	66.11%	0.2%
118th	Paraguay	66.12%	1.7%
119th	Botswana	66.45%	0.2%
120th	Cyprus	66.72%	-0.1%
121st	New Caledonia	67.27%	0.2%
122nd	Lithuania	67.43%	0.3%
123rd	Angola	67.46%	1.2%
124th	São Tomé and Principe	68.04%	0.2%
125th	Mongolia	68.09%	0.4%
126th	Latvia	68.12%	0.1%
127th	Austria	68.54%	0.3%
128th	Tunisia	69.10%	0.4%
129th	Ukraine	69.38%	0.0%
130th	Italy	69.52%	0.0%
131st	Iraq	69.87%	0.0%
132nd	Estonia	69.88%	0.4%
133rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	70.04%	0.4%
134th	Hungary	70.29%	-0.2%
135th	Equatorial Guinea	70.39%	0.4%
136th	Dominica	71.85%	0.6%
137th	Djibouti	72.00%	0.4%
138th	Czechia	72.73%	-0.1%
139th	Cabo Verde	72.88%	1.8%
140th	Algeria	73.05%	0.8%
141st	El Salvador	73.06%	0.9%
142nd	Finland	73.08%	0.5%
143rd	Dominican Republic	73.26%	-0.4%
144th	Bulgaria	73.32%	-0.5%
145th	Syrian Arab Republic	73.41%	-0.6%
146th	European Union	74.55%	0.1%
147th	Russian Federation	74.69%	0.1%
148th	Brunei Darussalam	74.77%	0.0%
149th	Malaysia	75.05%	0.3%
150th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	75.60%	0.5%
151st	Cuba	77.11%	0.0%
152nd	Marshall Islands	77.29%	0.4%
153rd	Costa Rica	77.52%	0.6%
154th	Colombia	77.64%	0.2%
155th	Belarus	77.79%	0.4%
156th	Greece	78.31%	0.2%
157th	Mexico	78.68%	0.4%
158th	France	78.71%	0.0%
159th	Palau	79.08%	-0.3%
160th	Spain	79.70%	0.1%
161st	United States	80.00%	-0.2%
162nd	Oman	80.02%	0.6%
163rd	Korea	81.18%	-0.1%
164th	Germany	81.47%	0.2%
165th	Bahamas, The	81.66%	-0.2%
166th	Canada	81.95%	0.3%
167th	Switzerland	82.34%	1.9%
168th	American Samoa	82.62%	-0.5%
169th	Norway	82.70%	0.3%
170th	United Kingdom	82.90%	0.3%
171st	Peru	83.53%	0.5%
172nd	Saudi Arabia	83.81%	0.2%
173rd	New Zealand	83.81%	0.0%
174th	United Arab Emirates	85.20%	0.2%
175th	West Bank and Gaza	86.07%	0.3%
176th	Brazil	86.91%	0.3%
177th	Australia	87.27%	0.0%
178th	Greenland	87.28%	0.3%
179th	Belgium	87.30%	0.2%
180th	Libya	87.83%	0.0%
181st	Sweden	87.94%	0.3%
182nd	Denmark	88.24%	0.0%
183rd	Chile	88.30%	0.2%
184th	Andorra	88.59%	0.1%
185th	Türkiye	88.93%	0.3%
186th	Lebanon	89.73%	0.3%
187th	Gabon	90.35%	0.5%
188th	Curaçao	91.38%	0.0%
189th	Israel	91.58%	0.0%
190th	Northern Mariana Islands	91.69%	0.1%
191st	Japan	91.78%	0.1%
192nd	Jordan	91.82%	0.3%
193rd	Argentina	91.94%	0.1%
194th	Turks and Caicos Islands	93.20%	0.3%
195th	Luxembourg	93.86%	0.6%
196th	Puerto Rico (US)	94.01%	0.1%
197th	Guam	94.08%	0.0%
198th	Iceland	94.14%	0.2%
199th	Netherlands	94.25%	0.4%
200th	Virgin Islands (US)	95.10%	0.0%
201st	Malta	95.18%	0.3%
202nd	Uruguay	95.40%	0.1%
203rd	San Marino	97.10%	0.0%
204th	Qatar	99.16%	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 Sierra Leone's urban population in 2020?▾

Sierra Leone's urban population in 2020 was 43.21%. This ranked 56th globally.

How did Sierra Leone's urban population change in 2020?▾

Sierra Leone's urban population increased by 1.2% in 2020 compared to 2019.

Which country had the highest urban population in 2020?▾

Bahrain had the highest urban population in 2020 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Sierra Leone in 2020?▾

The urban population of Sierra Leone in 2020 was 43.21%. This ranked 56th globally.

How does 2020 compare to 2019 for Sierra Leone's urban population?▾

Sierra Leone's urban population went from 42.70% in 2019 to 43.21% in 2020, a 1.2% increase.

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