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United States - Urban Population 1988

Name: United States Urban Population 1988
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

74.85% +0.19% from 1987 Global rank: 173rd

United States's urban population was 74.85% in 1988, increased +0.19% from 74.65% in 1987. This was the 173rd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1988▾

Urban Population by Country - 1988
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Rwanda	5.14%	1.0%
2nd	Burundi	5.86%	3.6%
3rd	Uganda	9.15%	3.9%
4th	Malawi	10.91%	2.7%
5th	South Sudan	11.15%	7.1%
6th	Lesotho	11.80%	3.0%
7th	Burkina Faso	12.61%	2.8%
8th	Solomon Islands	13.38%	1.7%
9th	Lao PDR	14.65%	2.0%
10th	Cambodia	15.05%	2.2%
11th	Papua New Guinea	15.12%	1.8%
12th	Niger	15.27%	0.8%
13th	Mali	16.21%	1.5%
14th	Eritrea	16.68%	3.0%
15th	Afghanistan	17.03%	0.7%
16th	Liechtenstein	17.22%	-1.0%
17th	Kenya	17.91%	1.0%
18th	Vanuatu	18.08%	2.1%
19th	Tanzania	18.19%	2.2%
20th	Thailand	18.28%	1.0%
21st	Yemen, Republic of	18.56%	4.5%
22nd	Bhutan	18.64%	4.4%
23rd	Nepal	18.74%	2.3%
24th	Bangladesh	19.02%	2.4%
25th	Sri Lanka	19.04%	-2.3%
26th	Viet Nam	19.05%	0.0%
27th	Timor-Leste	20.25%	2.0%
28th	Samoa	20.62%	0.5%
29th	Mozambique	20.95%	5.8%
30th	Chad	20.96%	0.7%
31st	Madagascar	21.25%	1.6%
32nd	Tonga	21.88%	0.8%
33rd	Eswatini	22.85%	0.2%
34th	Haiti	22.87%	2.9%
35th	India	25.20%	0.7%
36th	Myanmar	25.50%	0.6%
37th	Maldives	25.80%	0.3%
38th	China	25.81%	2.0%
39th	Micronesia, Federated States of	26.18%	-0.3%
40th	Namibia	26.51%	0.6%
41st	Sudan	27.07%	6.2%
42nd	Guinea	27.68%	1.0%
43rd	Comoros	27.69%	1.8%
44th	Togo	27.83%	1.5%
45th	Zimbabwe	28.15%	3.0%
46th	Indonesia	28.69%	3.3%
47th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	28.80%	1.0%
48th	Guinea-Bissau	29.20%	5.8%
49th	St. Lucia	29.22%	0.9%
50th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	29.49%	1.3%
51st	Guyana	29.56%	0.0%
52nd	Pakistan	30.27%	0.8%
53rd	Channel Islands	31.64%	-0.3%
54th	Equatorial Guinea	31.72%	5.4%
55th	Tajikistan	32.65%	-0.8%
56th	Sierra Leone	32.97%	0.8%
57th	Faroe Islands	33.02%	0.4%
58th	Grenada	33.28%	0.1%
59th	Guatemala	33.46%	0.6%
60th	Benin	33.58%	2.1%
61st	Nigeria	33.62%	2.4%
62nd	Gambia, The	34.11%	1.5%
63rd	Ghana	34.27%	1.9%
64th	Kiribati	34.39%	0.9%
65th	St. Kitts and Nevis	34.98%	-0.5%
66th	Angola	35.13%	4.1%
67th	Albania	35.28%	0.7%
68th	Antigua and Barbuda	35.41%	0.2%
69th	Philippines	35.52%	0.6%
70th	British Virgin Islands	36.03%	5.0%
71st	Kosovo	36.30%	1.2%
72nd	Central African Republic	37.04%	0.3%
73rd	Tuvalu	37.50%	3.1%
74th	Botswana	37.58%	11.0%
75th	Kyrgyz Republic	38.17%	-0.1%
76th	Senegal	38.50%	0.7%
77th	Cameroon	38.69%	1.9%
78th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	38.71%	0.7%
79th	Côte d'Ivoire	39.11%	0.7%
80th	Honduras	39.47%	1.4%
81st	Zambia	39.53%	-0.2%
82nd	Fiji	39.58%	1.4%
83rd	Mauritania	39.60%	0.4%
84th	Cabo Verde	40.52%	6.1%
85th	Uzbekistan	40.80%	0.4%
86th	São Tomé and Principe	41.28%	3.2%
87th	Liberia	41.32%	1.4%
88th	Mauritius	43.46%	1.0%
89th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	43.78%	0.1%
90th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	43.87%	-0.2%
91st	Turkmenistan	45.24%	-0.4%
92nd	Malaysia	45.75%	3.9%
93rd	Moldova	46.43%	2.5%
94th	Portugal	46.46%	1.4%
95th	Costa Rica	46.89%	1.6%
96th	Morocco	46.95%	1.7%
97th	El Salvador	47.67%	1.4%
98th	Montenegro	47.80%	0.6%
99th	Belize	47.87%	-0.8%
100th	Paraguay	48.15%	2.1%
101st	Syrian Arab Republic	48.46%	0.4%
102nd	Türkiye	48.96%	2.3%
103rd	Jamaica	49.08%	0.4%
104th	Seychelles	49.20%	-0.1%
105th	Serbia	49.55%	0.8%
106th	Algeria	50.54%	1.6%
107th	South Africa	50.73%	1.3%
108th	Slovenia	50.97%	0.1%
109th	Isle of Man	51.43%	0.3%
110th	Panama	52.83%	0.9%
111th	Nicaragua	53.09%	0.4%
112th	Croatia	53.11%	1.2%
113th	Ecuador	53.71%	1.4%
114th	Azerbaijan	53.73%	0.4%
115th	Romania	53.76%	0.6%
116th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	53.79%	2.3%
117th	Congo, Republic of	53.80%	0.8%
118th	Dominican Republic	54.45%	0.4%
119th	Trinidad and Tobago	54.60%	0.4%
120th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	55.37%	1.0%
121st	Georgia	55.44%	1.0%
122nd	Tunisia	56.12%	1.7%
123rd	Slovak Republic	56.36%	0.7%
124th	North Macedonia	56.66%	0.7%
125th	Ireland	56.67%	0.2%
126th	Mongolia	57.01%	0.4%
127th	Kazakhstan	57.22%	0.3%
128th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	58.07%	0.3%
129th	French Polynesia	58.32%	-0.2%
130th	New Caledonia	59.33%	0.2%
131st	Hungary	60.36%	0.5%
132nd	Poland	61.13%	0.3%
133rd	Dominica	61.52%	3.2%
134th	Austria	62.40%	1.8%
135th	Virgin Islands (US)	63.38%	5.9%
136th	Barbados	63.56%	0.0%
137th	Brunei Darussalam	63.79%	1.7%
138th	Finland	63.80%	0.2%
139th	West Bank and Gaza	64.67%	0.5%
140th	Belarus	64.90%	1.7%
141st	Aruba	65.57%	-0.1%
142nd	Suriname	66.30%	0.1%
143rd	Gabon	66.38%	2.1%
144th	Cyprus	66.50%	0.6%
145th	Ukraine	66.63%	0.8%
146th	Marshall Islands	66.66%	0.9%
147th	Bulgaria	66.70%	1.1%
148th	Italy	66.75%	0.0%
149th	Switzerland	67.27%	1.2%
150th	Lithuania	67.40%	0.9%
151st	Armenia	67.81%	0.1%
152nd	Peru	68.18%	0.6%
153rd	Netherlands	68.43%	0.4%
154th	Oman	68.51%	1.8%
155th	Colombia	68.54%	0.7%
156th	Palau	68.94%	0.4%
157th	European Union	69.75%	0.3%
158th	Iraq	70.17%	0.0%
159th	Korea	70.59%	3.0%
160th	Mexico	70.59%	0.7%
161st	Latvia	70.81%	0.1%
162nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	70.94%	3.2%
163rd	Greece	71.19%	0.2%
164th	Estonia	71.41%	0.1%
165th	Norway	71.57%	0.2%
166th	Jordan	72.33%	2.3%
167th	Cuba	72.68%	0.7%
168th	American Samoa	73.21%	1.8%
169th	Russian Federation	73.23%	0.5%
170th	Brazil	73.61%	0.9%
171st	France	73.83%	0.1%
172nd	Spain	74.37%	0.4%
173rd	United States	74.85%	0.3%
174th	Czechia	75.31%	-0.1%
175th	Saudi Arabia	75.59%	1.1%
176th	Djibouti	75.82%	0.3%
177th	Canada	76.52%	0.0%
178th	Japan	77.07%	0.2%
179th	Belgium	77.81%	0.5%
180th	United Kingdom	78.20%	-0.1%
181st	Libya	78.89%	1.1%
182nd	United Arab Emirates	78.99%	-0.2%
183rd	Greenland	79.54%	0.2%
184th	Bahamas, The	79.79%	0.7%
185th	Germany	80.00%	0.0%
186th	Puerto Rico (US)	80.30%	2.4%
187th	Luxembourg	80.80%	0.1%
188th	Lebanon	82.40%	0.7%
189th	Chile	82.98%	0.1%
190th	Sweden	83.23%	0.1%
191st	Curaçao	83.50%	0.4%
192nd	New Zealand	84.30%	0.3%
193rd	Denmark	84.81%	0.1%
194th	Australia	85.37%	0.0%
195th	Argentina	86.22%	0.5%
196th	Bahrain	86.87%	1.0%
197th	Uruguay	88.35%	0.4%
198th	Northern Mariana Islands	89.51%	0.3%
199th	Iceland	90.12%	0.3%
200th	Israel	90.24%	0.1%
201st	Guam	90.25%	0.3%
202nd	Malta	90.33%	0.3%
203rd	San Marino	90.44%	0.0%
204th	Qatar	91.76%	0.7%
205th	Andorra	95.35%	0.0%
206th	Hong Kong SAR, China	96.24%	1.8%
207th	Kuwait	97.96%	0.0%
208th	Macao SAR, China	99.41%	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 United States's urban population in 1988?▾

United States's urban population in 1988 was 74.85%. This ranked 173rd globally.

How did United States's urban population change in 1988?▾

United States's urban population increased by 0.3% in 1988 compared to 1987.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1988?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1988 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of United States in 1988?▾

The urban population of United States in 1988 was 74.85%. This ranked 173rd globally.

How does 1988 compare to 1987 for United States's urban population?▾

United States's urban population went from 74.65% in 1987 to 74.85% in 1988, a 0.3% increase.

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