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Zimbabwe - Urban Population 2024

Name: Zimbabwe Urban Population 2024
Creator: World Bank
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

39.89% +0.60% from 2023 Global rank: 46th

Zimbabwe's urban population was 39.89% in 2024, increased +0.60% from 39.29% in 2023. This was the 46th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2024▾

Urban Population by Country - 2024
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Liechtenstein	14.66%	-0.1%
2nd	Papua New Guinea	15.41%	2.3%
3rd	Malawi	17.27%	1.7%
4th	Samoa	17.50%	0.0%
5th	Niger	18.05%	1.7%
6th	Sri Lanka	20.30%	0.8%
7th	Tonga	21.15%	0.0%
8th	South Sudan	21.38%	1.4%
9th	Vanuatu	22.29%	0.1%
10th	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.46%	0.1%
11th	Antigua and Barbuda	24.39%	-0.2%
12th	Burundi	24.83%	5.4%
13th	Afghanistan	25.70%	0.9%
14th	Tajikistan	26.18%	0.0%
15th	Eswatini	26.25%	1.7%
16th	Guyana	26.48%	0.0%
17th	Chad	26.93%	2.3%
18th	Burkina Faso	28.34%	2.0%
19th	Timor-Leste	28.66%	0.2%
20th	St. Lucia	29.10%	0.0%
21st	Rwanda	29.88%	3.6%
22nd	Myanmar	30.45%	0.2%
23rd	Solomon Islands	30.66%	2.2%
24th	Uganda	31.28%	2.2%
25th	Mali	31.61%	1.9%
26th	St. Kitts and Nevis	31.80%	0.3%
27th	Kenya	31.89%	0.8%
28th	Madagascar	32.43%	1.4%
29th	Bangladesh	32.68%	1.6%
30th	Channel Islands	32.71%	-0.2%
31st	Comoros	33.54%	1.2%
32nd	Eritrea	34.54%	-0.5%
33rd	Kyrgyz Republic	34.72%	0.0%
34th	Sudan	34.87%	0.2%
35th	India	35.38%	0.9%
36th	Tanzania	36.17%	2.0%
37th	Mozambique	36.43%	2.0%
38th	Grenada	36.56%	0.3%
39th	Yemen, Republic of	36.81%	0.6%
40th	Guinea	38.07%	1.1%
41st	Viet Nam	38.49%	0.9%
42nd	Mauritius	39.02%	0.0%
43rd	Pakistan	39.17%	0.9%
44th	Faroe Islands	39.41%	0.6%
45th	Lao PDR	39.56%	1.9%
46th	Zimbabwe	39.89%	1.5%
47th	Cambodia	40.87%	0.6%
48th	Belize	41.75%	-0.5%
49th	Maldives	42.00%	1.2%
50th	Bhutan	42.56%	2.0%
51st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.80%	0.2%
52nd	Moldova	43.52%	1.2%
53rd	Lesotho	43.68%	2.3%
54th	Togo	43.81%	1.3%
55th	Central African Republic	44.12%	1.0%
56th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	44.75%	0.8%
57th	Seychelles	45.29%	0.4%
58th	Sierra Leone	45.36%	1.2%
59th	Zambia	45.47%	1.0%
60th	Guinea-Bissau	46.11%	1.1%
61st	Turkmenistan	47.09%	0.0%
62nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	47.85%	0.3%
63rd	Kosovo	50.32%	2.5%
64th	Namibia	50.41%	0.9%
65th	Uzbekistan	51.00%	0.0%
66th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	52.12%	1.1%
67th	Isle of Man	52.16%	0.0%
68th	Romania	52.17%	0.0%
69th	Benin	52.55%	1.5%
70th	Slovak Republic	53.19%	0.0%
71st	Trinidad and Tobago	53.96%	0.0%
72nd	Côte d'Ivoire	53.97%	1.1%
73rd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	54.62%	1.0%
74th	Haiti	55.04%	1.1%
75th	Senegal	55.24%	1.0%
76th	Cameroon	55.40%	0.5%
77th	Philippines	55.45%	0.6%
78th	Liberia	55.54%	1.0%
79th	Slovenia	55.76%	0.4%
80th	Guatemala	55.95%	0.6%
81st	British Virgin Islands	56.51%	1.6%
82nd	Croatia	57.52%	0.5%
83rd	Ghana	58.37%	1.0%
84th	Albania	58.55%	0.6%
85th	Azerbaijan	58.57%	0.1%
86th	Indonesia	58.75%	1.1%
87th	Honduras	58.79%	0.8%
88th	Jamaica	58.93%	0.8%
89th	Fiji	59.08%	0.8%
90th	Nicaragua	59.26%	0.2%
91st	Barbados	59.54%	0.2%
92nd	Poland	59.97%	0.1%
93rd	Mauritania	60.61%	1.5%
94th	Georgia	61.08%	0.5%
95th	Portugal	61.33%	0.2%
96th	French Polynesia	61.72%	0.0%
97th	Aruba	61.79%	-0.1%
98th	Thailand	61.87%	1.5%
99th	Kazakhstan	62.07%	0.5%
100th	Serbia	62.38%	0.4%
101st	Kiribati	62.46%	1.5%
102nd	North Macedonia	62.56%	0.5%
103rd	Morocco	62.80%	0.2%
104th	Nigeria	62.98%	1.3%
105th	Ecuador	63.24%	0.2%
106th	South Africa	63.69%	0.2%
107th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	63.86%	0.5%
108th	Congo, Republic of	63.89%	0.4%
109th	Gambia, The	64.30%	0.8%
110th	Ireland	64.35%	0.4%
111th	Tuvalu	64.73%	1.1%
112th	Montenegro	65.54%	0.1%
113th	Suriname	65.76%	0.0%
114th	Armenia	65.81%	0.2%
115th	China	65.89%	0.6%
116th	Panama	66.00%	0.2%
117th	Cyprus	66.68%	0.0%
118th	Nepal	66.77%	0.3%
119th	Botswana	67.46%	0.7%
120th	New Caledonia	67.95%	0.3%
121st	Latvia	68.48%	0.2%
122nd	Lithuania	68.83%	0.4%
123rd	São Tomé and Principe	68.87%	0.4%
124th	Austria	69.47%	0.3%
125th	Ukraine	69.53%	0.1%
126th	Italy	69.60%	0.1%
127th	Paraguay	69.86%	0.7%
128th	Iraq	69.89%	0.0%
129th	Tunisia	70.36%	0.5%
130th	Hungary	70.49%	0.3%
131st	Angola	70.66%	1.2%
132nd	Estonia	70.70%	0.0%
133rd	Mongolia	70.96%	0.7%
134th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	71.24%	0.5%
135th	Equatorial Guinea	71.36%	0.3%
136th	Syrian Arab Republic	72.08%	-0.1%
137th	Dominican Republic	72.41%	0.1%
138th	Czechia	72.79%	0.1%
139th	Djibouti	72.91%	0.1%
140th	Dominica	73.54%	0.6%
141st	Bulgaria	73.95%	0.3%
142nd	Finland	74.26%	0.3%
143rd	Brunei Darussalam	74.90%	0.1%
144th	European Union	75.03%	0.2%
145th	El Salvador	75.07%	0.6%
146th	Russian Federation	75.11%	0.2%
147th	Algeria	75.28%	0.7%
148th	Cabo Verde	76.77%	1.1%
149th	Malaysia	76.92%	0.6%
150th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	77.02%	0.4%
151st	Cuba	77.17%	0.1%
152nd	Colombia	78.52%	0.3%
153rd	Marshall Islands	78.73%	0.5%
154th	France	78.80%	0.0%
155th	Greece	79.00%	0.3%
156th	Belarus	79.16%	0.4%
157th	Palau	79.21%	0.1%
158th	Costa Rica	79.31%	0.5%
159th	Oman	79.44%	-0.2%
160th	Mexico	79.75%	0.4%
161st	United States	80.12%	0.1%
162nd	Spain	80.32%	0.2%
163rd	American Samoa	80.94%	-0.5%
164th	Korea	81.17%	0.0%
165th	Bahamas, The	81.32%	0.0%
166th	Germany	82.02%	0.1%
167th	Canada	82.70%	0.2%
168th	United Kingdom	83.24%	0.1%
169th	Norway	83.33%	0.3%
170th	New Zealand	83.94%	0.1%
171st	Saudi Arabia	84.46%	0.2%
172nd	Peru	85.19%	0.5%
173rd	Switzerland	85.46%	0.3%
174th	United Arab Emirates	85.82%	0.2%
175th	West Bank and Gaza	87.12%	0.3%
176th	Australia	87.60%	0.1%
177th	Belgium	87.61%	0.1%
178th	Libya	87.89%	0.0%
179th	Brazil	87.90%	0.3%
180th	Greenland	88.32%	0.3%
181st	Denmark	88.70%	0.2%
182nd	Sweden	88.86%	0.3%
183rd	Andorra	88.89%	0.1%
184th	Chile	89.00%	0.2%
185th	Türkiye	89.34%	0.4%
186th	Lebanon	90.70%	0.3%
187th	Curaçao	91.43%	0.0%
188th	Israel	91.54%	0.0%
189th	Gabon	91.86%	0.2%
190th	Northern Mariana Islands	92.07%	0.1%
191st	Japan	92.19%	0.1%
192nd	Argentina	92.27%	0.1%
193rd	Jordan	92.95%	0.3%
194th	Turks and Caicos Islands	94.17%	0.2%
195th	Guam	94.17%	0.0%
196th	Iceland	94.18%	0.0%
197th	Puerto Rico (US)	94.25%	0.1%
198th	Luxembourg	94.84%	0.0%
199th	Virgin Islands (US)	95.33%	0.1%
200th	Uruguay	95.60%	0.1%
201st	Netherlands	95.64%	0.3%
202nd	Malta	95.65%	0.0%
203rd	San Marino	97.16%	0.0%
204th	Qatar	99.32%	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 Zimbabwe's urban population in 2024?▾

Zimbabwe's urban population in 2024 was 39.89%. This ranked 46th globally.

How did Zimbabwe's urban population change in 2024?▾

Zimbabwe's urban population increased by 1.5% in 2024 compared to 2023.

Which country had the highest urban population in 2024?▾

Bahrain had the highest urban population in 2024 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Zimbabwe in 2024?▾

The urban population of Zimbabwe in 2024 was 39.89%. This ranked 46th globally.

How does 2024 compare to 2023 for Zimbabwe's urban population?▾

Zimbabwe's urban population went from 39.29% in 2023 to 39.89% in 2024, a 1.5% increase.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Zimbabwe matched the Stagflation Risk pattern in 2024. Historically: 307 occurrences, 117 successful (38%). View full analysis →

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