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Switzerland - Urban Population 1998

Name: Switzerland Urban Population 1998
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

72.86% +0.37% from 1997 Global rank: 157th

Switzerland's urban population was 72.86% in 1998, increased +0.37% from 72.48% in 1997. This was the 157th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1998▾

Urban Population by Country - 1998
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	7.68%	2.3%
2nd	Uganda	11.22%	1.6%
3rd	Rwanda	13.33%	12.6%
4th	Papua New Guinea	13.50%	-1.8%
5th	Malawi	14.42%	1.4%
6th	Sri Lanka	14.94%	-1.7%
7th	Solomon Islands	15.23%	1.5%
8th	Liechtenstein	15.50%	-2.3%
9th	South Sudan	15.56%	1.7%
10th	Niger	15.97%	0.5%
11th	Burkina Faso	16.44%	4.0%
12th	Lesotho	18.22%	3.2%
13th	Afghanistan	18.24%	0.8%
14th	Mali	18.36%	1.5%
15th	Cambodia	18.37%	1.0%
16th	Kenya	18.88%	0.7%
17th	Lao PDR	19.88%	5.5%
18th	Vanuatu	21.08%	1.4%
19th	Tanzania	21.47%	1.6%
20th	Chad	21.59%	0.2%
21st	Samoa	21.84%	0.4%
22nd	Bangladesh	22.62%	1.5%
23rd	Tonga	22.97%	0.2%
24th	Eswatini	23.03%	-0.1%
25th	Micronesia, Federated States of	23.04%	-3.3%
26th	Viet Nam	23.28%	2.6%
27th	Timor-Leste	23.46%	1.3%
28th	Madagascar	24.41%	1.3%
29th	Yemen, Republic of	25.54%	2.3%
30th	Bhutan	26.18%	2.8%
31st	Maldives	26.47%	1.7%
32nd	Tajikistan	26.81%	-1.5%
33rd	Myanmar	27.18%	0.7%
34th	India	27.18%	0.8%
35th	Nepal	27.99%	5.3%
36th	Comoros	28.16%	-0.2%
37th	St. Lucia	28.46%	-0.9%
38th	Thailand	28.72%	5.6%
39th	Mozambique	28.82%	0.9%
40th	Guyana	29.03%	-0.4%
41st	Guinea	30.34%	1.0%
42nd	Channel Islands	30.41%	0.0%
43rd	Namibia	30.64%	2.3%
44th	Zimbabwe	32.10%	0.6%
45th	Togo	32.20%	1.4%
46th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	32.21%	1.2%
47th	Sudan	32.26%	0.1%
48th	Eritrea	32.40%	4.8%
49th	Pakistan	32.59%	0.7%
50th	St. Kitts and Nevis	33.14%	-0.6%
51st	Antigua and Barbuda	33.23%	-1.5%
52nd	China	33.35%	4.5%
53rd	Haiti	33.88%	4.3%
54th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	33.90%	1.5%
55th	Sierra Leone	35.10%	0.6%
56th	Kyrgyz Republic	35.38%	-0.5%
57th	Faroe Islands	35.46%	0.8%
58th	Grenada	35.47%	0.9%
59th	Guinea-Bissau	36.15%	1.1%
60th	Zambia	36.72%	-1.7%
61st	Kosovo	37.43%	0.1%
62nd	Central African Republic	37.61%	0.1%
63rd	Benin	37.68%	0.7%
64th	Mauritania	38.19%	-0.3%
65th	Philippines	38.39%	0.9%
66th	Equatorial Guinea	38.81%	0.0%
67th	Indonesia	39.91%	3.0%
68th	Guatemala	39.94%	4.2%
69th	Albania	40.20%	1.7%
70th	Senegal	40.30%	0.4%
71st	Kiribati	40.53%	5.0%
72nd	Moldova	40.73%	-9.3%
73rd	Nigeria	41.60%	2.0%
74th	British Virgin Islands	41.72%	0.5%
75th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.91%	0.8%
76th	Côte d'Ivoire	42.35%	0.9%
77th	Ghana	42.45%	1.9%
78th	Mauritius	42.48%	-0.6%
79th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.66%	0.0%
80th	Liberia	43.19%	0.4%
81st	Seychelles	43.95%	-1.0%
82nd	Gambia, The	43.96%	3.6%
83rd	Honduras	44.30%	1.1%
84th	Tuvalu	44.49%	1.1%
85th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	44.64%	0.3%
86th	Cameroon	45.15%	1.3%
87th	Turkmenistan	45.39%	0.7%
88th	Uzbekistan	45.96%	1.9%
89th	Fiji	47.26%	1.0%
90th	Belize	47.64%	0.1%
91st	Angola	47.99%	2.7%
92nd	Slovenia	50.49%	0.2%
93rd	Syrian Arab Republic	51.09%	0.7%
94th	São Tomé and Principe	51.11%	1.8%
95th	Jamaica	51.26%	0.5%
96th	Azerbaijan	51.47%	-0.9%
97th	Botswana	51.74%	1.3%
98th	Isle of Man	51.81%	0.0%
99th	Cabo Verde	52.22%	1.7%
100th	Georgia	52.85%	-0.5%
101st	Morocco	52.96%	0.7%
102nd	Portugal	53.06%	1.3%
103rd	Romania	53.22%	-0.4%
104th	Serbia	54.57%	1.0%
105th	South Africa	54.66%	1.2%
106th	El Salvador	54.83%	1.6%
107th	Nicaragua	54.93%	0.3%
108th	Croatia	55.56%	0.2%
109th	Trinidad and Tobago	55.90%	0.1%
110th	French Polynesia	56.14%	-0.2%
111th	Slovak Republic	56.33%	-0.2%
112th	Paraguay	56.33%	1.2%
113th	Kazakhstan	56.35%	-0.2%
114th	Mongolia	56.67%	-0.1%
115th	Montenegro	56.67%	2.3%
116th	Costa Rica	56.87%	2.0%
117th	Türkiye	57.29%	1.4%
118th	Congo, Republic of	57.81%	0.9%
119th	Algeria	58.31%	1.3%
120th	Ireland	58.64%	0.4%
121st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	59.29%	0.1%
122nd	North Macedonia	59.34%	-0.4%
123rd	Dominican Republic	59.46%	1.4%
124th	Malaysia	59.72%	2.1%
125th	Ecuador	59.84%	0.8%
126th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	60.91%	0.8%
127th	New Caledonia	60.94%	0.5%
128th	Panama	61.01%	1.4%
129th	Poland	61.71%	0.0%
130th	Barbados	62.84%	-0.2%
131st	Tunisia	62.89%	0.6%
132nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	62.91%	1.3%
133rd	Hungary	63.61%	0.5%
134th	Dominica	65.07%	0.1%
135th	Aruba	65.37%	0.0%
136th	Armenia	65.43%	-0.5%
137th	Finland	66.18%	0.8%
138th	Austria	66.51%	0.3%
139th	Suriname	66.66%	0.0%
140th	Italy	67.03%	0.1%
141st	Lithuania	67.11%	-0.1%
142nd	Iraq	67.49%	0.0%
143rd	Ukraine	67.55%	-0.1%
144th	Estonia	67.65%	-0.5%
145th	Marshall Islands	67.86%	0.2%
146th	Bulgaria	67.87%	0.3%
147th	Latvia	68.29%	-0.4%
148th	Cyprus	68.61%	0.2%
149th	Belarus	69.02%	0.6%
150th	West Bank and Gaza	69.50%	1.1%
151st	Palau	70.17%	-0.8%
152nd	Brunei Darussalam	70.31%	0.7%
153rd	European Union	71.21%	0.2%
154th	Oman	71.59%	0.0%
155th	Peru	72.02%	0.5%
156th	Greece	72.39%	0.2%
157th	Switzerland	72.86%	0.5%
158th	Russian Federation	73.19%	0.1%
159th	Colombia	73.37%	0.7%
160th	Djibouti	74.25%	-0.6%
161st	Czechia	74.25%	-0.2%
162nd	Mexico	74.27%	0.4%
163rd	Cuba	75.31%	0.3%
164th	Norway	75.33%	0.8%
165th	France	75.89%	0.4%
166th	Spain	75.91%	0.1%
167th	Netherlands	76.75%	1.6%
168th	Gabon	77.80%	1.2%
169th	Canada	78.27%	0.2%
170th	Jordan	78.28%	0.0%
171st	Japan	78.33%	0.1%
172nd	United States	78.48%	0.5%
173rd	United Arab Emirates	78.60%	0.3%
174th	Korea	79.18%	0.2%
175th	United Kingdom	79.39%	0.3%
176th	Saudi Arabia	79.59%	0.3%
177th	Brazil	79.79%	1.0%
178th	Germany	80.07%	0.0%
179th	Bahamas, The	80.89%	0.1%
180th	Greenland	81.12%	0.1%
181st	Belgium	81.36%	0.4%
182nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	83.01%	1.1%
183rd	Luxembourg	83.53%	0.6%
184th	Sweden	83.98%	0.0%
185th	Denmark	85.09%	0.0%
186th	Australia	85.16%	0.0%
187th	New Zealand	85.60%	0.1%
188th	Chile	85.61%	0.5%
189th	Lebanon	85.77%	0.2%
190th	Libya	86.04%	0.6%
191st	American Samoa	87.86%	1.2%
192nd	Bahrain	87.95%	-0.1%
193rd	Argentina	88.79%	0.2%
194th	Curaçao	89.76%	0.9%
195th	Northern Mariana Islands	89.87%	0.2%
196th	Uruguay	91.08%	0.1%
197th	Israel	91.11%	0.1%
198th	Virgin Islands (US)	91.12%	1.6%
199th	Iceland	91.68%	-0.4%
200th	Andorra	92.78%	-0.2%
201st	Guam	92.79%	0.2%
202nd	Malta	93.09%	0.1%
203rd	San Marino	93.24%	0.4%
204th	Puerto Rico (US)	93.97%	0.7%
205th	Qatar	95.91%	0.3%
206th	Kuwait	98.55%	0.2%
207th	Macao SAR, China	99.97%	0.0%
208th	Bermuda	100.00%	0.0%
209th	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
210th	Gibraltar	100.00%	0.0%
211th	Hong Kong 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 Switzerland's urban population in 1998?▾

Switzerland's urban population in 1998 was 72.86%. This ranked 157th globally.

How did Switzerland's urban population change in 1998?▾

Switzerland's urban population increased by 0.5% in 1998 compared to 1997.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1998?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1998 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Switzerland in 1998?▾

The urban population of Switzerland in 1998 was 72.86%. This ranked 157th globally.

How does 1998 compare to 1997 for Switzerland's urban population?▾

Switzerland's urban population went from 72.48% in 1997 to 72.86% in 1998, a 0.5% increase.

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