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West Bank and Gaza - Urban Population 1997

Name: West Bank and Gaza Urban Population 1997
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

68.74% +0.62% from 1996 Global rank: 150th

West Bank and Gaza's urban population was 68.74% in 1997, increased +0.62% from 68.11% in 1996. This was the 150th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1997▾

Urban Population by Country - 1997
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	7.51%	2.3%
2nd	Uganda	11.05%	1.5%
3rd	Rwanda	11.83%	14.9%
4th	Papua New Guinea	13.75%	-2.1%
5th	Malawi	14.23%	1.9%
6th	Solomon Islands	15.01%	1.4%
7th	Sri Lanka	15.19%	-2.0%
8th	South Sudan	15.30%	1.8%
9th	Burkina Faso	15.81%	3.2%
10th	Liechtenstein	15.87%	-2.1%
11th	Niger	15.89%	0.5%
12th	Lesotho	17.66%	3.4%
13th	Afghanistan	18.09%	0.7%
14th	Mali	18.09%	1.4%
15th	Cambodia	18.18%	1.7%
16th	Kenya	18.76%	0.5%
17th	Lao PDR	18.85%	4.9%
18th	Vanuatu	20.80%	1.4%
19th	Tanzania	21.14%	1.5%
20th	Chad	21.56%	0.2%
21st	Samoa	21.76%	0.4%
22nd	Bangladesh	22.30%	1.4%
23rd	Viet Nam	22.69%	2.8%
24th	Tonga	22.93%	0.2%
25th	Eswatini	23.06%	0.0%
26th	Timor-Leste	23.16%	1.3%
27th	Micronesia, Federated States of	23.83%	-3.3%
28th	Madagascar	24.10%	1.3%
29th	Yemen, Republic of	24.98%	2.4%
30th	Bhutan	25.46%	2.9%
31st	Maldives	26.03%	1.3%
32nd	Nepal	26.59%	5.1%
33rd	India	26.97%	0.8%
34th	Myanmar	27.00%	0.7%
35th	Thailand	27.20%	6.1%
36th	Tajikistan	27.22%	-2.0%
37th	Comoros	28.22%	-0.2%
38th	Mozambique	28.55%	1.4%
39th	St. Lucia	28.72%	-0.8%
40th	Guyana	29.16%	-0.4%
41st	Namibia	29.94%	2.3%
42nd	Guinea	30.05%	0.9%
43rd	Channel Islands	30.40%	0.0%
44th	Eritrea	30.93%	6.0%
45th	Togo	31.75%	1.4%
46th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	31.81%	1.2%
47th	Zimbabwe	31.90%	0.7%
48th	China	31.91%	4.7%
49th	Sudan	32.22%	0.2%
50th	Pakistan	32.36%	0.7%
51st	Haiti	32.47%	4.3%
52nd	St. Kitts and Nevis	33.34%	-0.6%
53rd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	33.41%	1.5%
54th	Antigua and Barbuda	33.72%	-1.4%
55th	Sierra Leone	34.90%	0.6%
56th	Grenada	35.17%	1.0%
57th	Faroe Islands	35.19%	0.8%
58th	Kyrgyz Republic	35.55%	-0.8%
59th	Guinea-Bissau	35.77%	1.1%
60th	Zambia	37.38%	-1.6%
61st	Kosovo	37.39%	0.1%
62nd	Benin	37.40%	0.7%
63rd	Central African Republic	37.56%	0.1%
64th	Philippines	38.05%	0.9%
65th	Guatemala	38.32%	3.9%
66th	Mauritania	38.32%	-0.4%
67th	Kiribati	38.60%	4.2%
68th	Indonesia	38.75%	3.2%
69th	Equatorial Guinea	38.81%	0.0%
70th	Albania	39.54%	1.6%
71st	Senegal	40.13%	0.4%
72nd	Nigeria	40.77%	2.1%
73rd	British Virgin Islands	41.51%	0.7%
74th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.58%	0.8%
75th	Ghana	41.65%	2.0%
76th	Côte d'Ivoire	41.99%	0.8%
77th	Gambia, The	42.43%	3.6%
78th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.64%	0.0%
79th	Mauritius	42.72%	-0.6%
80th	Liberia	43.02%	0.1%
81st	Honduras	43.81%	1.1%
82nd	Tuvalu	44.02%	1.1%
83rd	Seychelles	44.38%	-2.4%
84th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	44.51%	0.3%
85th	Cameroon	44.57%	1.4%
86th	Moldova	44.91%	-0.4%
87th	Turkmenistan	45.08%	0.5%
88th	Uzbekistan	45.11%	1.9%
89th	Angola	46.72%	2.8%
90th	Fiji	46.81%	1.1%
91st	Belize	47.59%	0.1%
92nd	São Tomé and Principe	50.23%	1.8%
93rd	Slovenia	50.38%	0.2%
94th	Syrian Arab Republic	50.71%	0.7%
95th	Jamaica	51.03%	0.5%
96th	Botswana	51.05%	1.4%
97th	Cabo Verde	51.37%	1.7%
98th	Isle of Man	51.80%	0.0%
99th	Azerbaijan	51.93%	-0.4%
100th	Portugal	52.38%	1.3%
101st	Morocco	52.60%	0.8%
102nd	Georgia	53.11%	-0.5%
103rd	Romania	53.45%	-0.4%
104th	El Salvador	53.99%	1.5%
105th	South Africa	54.00%	0.8%
106th	Serbia	54.03%	1.0%
107th	Nicaragua	54.78%	0.3%
108th	Montenegro	55.38%	2.4%
109th	Croatia	55.45%	0.2%
110th	Paraguay	55.64%	1.3%
111th	Costa Rica	55.77%	2.0%
112th	Trinidad and Tobago	55.85%	0.1%
113th	French Polynesia	56.25%	-0.2%
114th	Slovak Republic	56.43%	-0.2%
115th	Kazakhstan	56.49%	-0.2%
116th	Türkiye	56.53%	1.3%
117th	Mongolia	56.70%	-0.1%
118th	Congo, Republic of	57.30%	0.8%
119th	Algeria	57.55%	1.4%
120th	Ireland	58.41%	0.4%
121st	Malaysia	58.50%	2.2%
122nd	Dominican Republic	58.61%	1.3%
123rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	59.23%	0.1%
124th	Ecuador	59.34%	0.9%
125th	North Macedonia	59.57%	-0.2%
126th	Panama	60.17%	1.6%
127th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	60.42%	0.8%
128th	New Caledonia	60.67%	0.4%
129th	Poland	61.68%	0.1%
130th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	62.11%	1.7%
131st	Tunisia	62.50%	0.7%
132nd	Barbados	62.98%	-0.2%
133rd	Hungary	63.28%	0.5%
134th	Dominica	65.01%	0.1%
135th	Aruba	65.37%	0.0%
136th	Finland	65.68%	0.7%
137th	Armenia	65.73%	-0.5%
138th	Austria	66.33%	0.3%
139th	Suriname	66.63%	0.0%
140th	Italy	66.95%	0.1%
141st	Lithuania	67.19%	-0.1%
142nd	Iraq	67.49%	-0.2%
143rd	Ukraine	67.63%	-0.1%
144th	Bulgaria	67.66%	-0.1%
145th	Marshall Islands	67.73%	0.2%
146th	Estonia	68.00%	-0.7%
147th	Cyprus	68.48%	0.2%
148th	Latvia	68.54%	-0.4%
149th	Belarus	68.61%	0.5%
150th	West Bank and Gaza	68.74%	0.9%
151st	Brunei Darussalam	69.83%	0.7%
152nd	Palau	70.77%	-0.7%
153rd	European Union	71.07%	0.3%
154th	Oman	71.62%	0.0%
155th	Peru	71.65%	0.5%
156th	Greece	72.28%	0.1%
157th	Switzerland	72.48%	0.6%
158th	Colombia	72.85%	0.7%
159th	Russian Federation	73.12%	0.1%
160th	Mexico	73.95%	0.4%
161st	Czechia	74.40%	-0.2%
162nd	Djibouti	74.67%	-0.5%
163rd	Norway	74.70%	0.7%
164th	Cuba	75.07%	0.4%
165th	Netherlands	75.55%	4.3%
166th	France	75.63%	0.4%
167th	Spain	75.80%	0.1%
168th	Gabon	76.88%	1.2%
169th	United States	78.09%	0.6%
170th	Canada	78.09%	0.3%
171st	Japan	78.23%	0.1%
172nd	Jordan	78.27%	0.0%
173rd	United Arab Emirates	78.38%	0.1%
174th	Korea	78.99%	0.3%
175th	Brazil	79.00%	0.9%
176th	United Kingdom	79.14%	0.3%
177th	Saudi Arabia	79.39%	0.3%
178th	Germany	80.06%	0.0%
179th	Bahamas, The	80.83%	0.1%
180th	Belgium	81.02%	0.4%
181st	Greenland	81.07%	0.0%
182nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	82.12%	1.2%
183rd	Luxembourg	83.07%	0.5%
184th	Sweden	83.96%	0.0%
185th	Denmark	85.07%	0.0%
186th	Australia	85.20%	-0.1%
187th	Chile	85.22%	0.5%
188th	Libya	85.50%	0.7%
189th	New Zealand	85.54%	0.1%
190th	Lebanon	85.60%	0.2%
191st	American Samoa	86.85%	1.5%
192nd	Bahrain	88.04%	-0.1%
193rd	Argentina	88.60%	0.2%
194th	Curaçao	88.97%	1.0%
195th	Virgin Islands (US)	89.67%	2.1%
196th	Northern Mariana Islands	89.71%	0.1%
197th	Uruguay	90.95%	0.2%
198th	Israel	91.02%	0.1%
199th	Iceland	92.02%	0.2%
200th	Guam	92.56%	0.3%
201st	San Marino	92.88%	0.4%
202nd	Malta	92.98%	0.1%
203rd	Andorra	92.98%	-0.2%
204th	Puerto Rico (US)	93.36%	0.9%
205th	Qatar	95.67%	0.3%
206th	Kuwait	98.33%	0.2%
207th	Macao SAR, China	99.95%	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 West Bank and Gaza's urban population in 1997?▾

West Bank and Gaza's urban population in 1997 was 68.74%. This ranked 150th globally.

How did West Bank and Gaza's urban population change in 1997?▾

West Bank and Gaza's urban population increased by 0.9% in 1997 compared to 1996.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1997?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1997 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of West Bank and Gaza in 1997?▾

The urban population of West Bank and Gaza in 1997 was 68.74%. This ranked 150th globally.

How does 1997 compare to 1996 for West Bank and Gaza's urban population?▾

West Bank and Gaza's urban population went from 68.11% in 1996 to 68.74% in 1997, a 0.9% increase.

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