Least Urbanized Countries (2026)

Liechtenstein is the least urbanized country with only 14.7% of its population in urban areas. Rural-dominant countries typically have economies centered on agriculture and may face challenges delivering services across dispersed populations.

#1

Liechtenstein

14.7%

#2

Papua New Guinea

15.4%

#3

Malawi

17.3%

Least Urbanized Countries - 216 countries ranked by Urban %

Rank	Country	Urban %	Population	Region
1	Liechtenstein	14.7%	40,900	Europe
2	Papua New Guinea	15.4%	11,781,559	Oceania
3	Malawi	17.3%	20,734,262	Africa
4	Samoa	17.5%	205,557	Oceania
5	Niger	18.1%	26,312,034	Africa
6	Sri Lanka	20.3%	21,763,170	Asia
7	Tonga	21.1%	100,179	Oceania
8	South Sudan	21.4%	15,786,898	Africa
9	Vanuatu	22.3%	321,409	Oceania
10	Micronesia	22.5%	105,564	Oceania
11	Ethiopia	23.6%	111,652,998	Africa
12	Antigua and Barbuda	24.4%	103,603	Americas
13	Burundi	24.8%	12,332,788	Africa
14	Afghanistan	25.7%	43,844,000	Asia
15	Tajikistan	26.2%	10,499,000	Asia
16	Eswatini	26.3%	1,235,549	Africa
17	Guyana	26.5%	772,975	Americas
18	Chad	26.9%	19,340,757	Africa
19	Burkina Faso	28.3%	24,070,553	Africa
20	Timor-Leste	28.7%	1,391,221	Asia
21	Saint Lucia	29.1%	184,100	Americas
22	Rwanda	29.9%	14,104,969	Africa
23	Myanmar	30.4%	51,316,756	Asia
24	Solomon Islands	30.7%	750,325	Oceania
25	Uganda	31.3%	45,905,417	Africa
26	Mali	31.6%	22,395,489	Africa
27	Saint Kitts and Nevis	31.8%	51,320	Americas
28	Kenya	31.9%	53,330,978	Africa
29	Madagascar	32.4%	31,727,042	Africa
30	Bangladesh	32.7%	169,828,911	Asia
31	Comoros	33.5%	919,901	Africa
32	Eritrea	34.5%	3,607,000	Africa
33	Kyrgyzstan	34.7%	7,281,800	Asia
34	Sudan	34.9%	51,662,000	Africa
35	India	35.4%	1,417,492,000	Asia
36	Tanzania	36.2%	68,153,004	Africa
37	Mozambique	36.4%	34,090,466	Africa
38	Grenada	36.6%	109,021	Americas
39	Yemen	36.8%	32,684,503	Asia
40	Guinea	38.1%	14,363,931	Africa
41	Vietnam	38.5%	101,343,800	Asia
42	Mauritius	39.0%	1,243,741	Africa
43	Pakistan	39.2%	241,499,431	Asia
44	Faroe Islands	39.4%	54,885	Europe
45	Laos	39.6%	7,647,000	Asia
46	Zimbabwe	39.9%	17,073,087	Africa
47	Cambodia	40.9%	17,577,760	Asia
48	Belize	41.8%	417,634	Americas
49	Maldives	42.0%	515,132	Asia
50	Bhutan	42.6%	784,043	Asia
51	Egypt	42.8%	107,271,260	Africa
52	Moldova	43.5%	2,749,076	Europe
53	Lesotho	43.7%	2,116,427	Africa
54	Togo	43.8%	8,095,498	Africa
55	Central African Republic	44.1%	6,470,307	Africa
56	DR Congo	44.8%	112,832,000	Africa
57	Seychelles	45.3%	122,729	Africa
58	Sierra Leone	45.4%	9,077,691	Africa
59	Zambia	45.5%	19,693,423	Africa
60	Guinea-Bissau	46.1%	1,781,308	Africa
61	Turkmenistan	47.1%	7,057,841	Asia
62	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	47.9%	110,872	Americas
63	Kosovo	50.3%	1,585,566	Europe
64	Namibia	50.4%	3,022,401	Africa
65	Uzbekistan	51.0%	37,859,698	Asia
66	Bosnia and Herzegovina	52.1%	3,422,000	Europe
67	Isle of Man	52.2%	84,530	Europe
68	Romania	52.2%	19,036,031	Europe
69	Benin	52.5%	13,224,860	Africa
70	Slovakia	53.2%	5,413,813	Europe
71	Trinidad and Tobago	54.0%	1,367,764	Americas
72	Ivory Coast	54.0%	31,719,275	Africa
73	Somalia	54.6%	19,655,000	Africa
74	Haiti	55.0%	11,867,032	Americas
75	Senegal	55.2%	18,593,258	Africa
76	Cameroon	55.4%	29,442,327	Africa
77	Philippines	55.5%	114,123,600	Asia
78	Liberia	55.5%	5,248,621	Africa
79	Slovenia	55.8%	2,130,638	Europe
80	Guatemala	56.0%	18,079,810	Americas
81	British Virgin Islands	56.5%	39,471	Americas
82	Croatia	57.5%	3,866,233	Europe
83	Ghana	58.4%	33,742,380	Africa
84	Albania	58.5%	2,363,314	Europe
85	Azerbaijan	58.6%	10,241,722	Asia
86	Indonesia	58.8%	284,438,782	Asia
87	Honduras	58.8%	9,892,632	Americas
88	Jamaica	58.9%	2,825,544	Americas
89	Fiji	59.1%	900,869	Oceania
90	Nicaragua	59.3%	6,803,886	Americas
91	Barbados	59.5%	267,800	Americas
92	Poland	60.0%	37,392,000	Europe
93	Mauritania	60.6%	4,927,532	Africa
94	Georgia	61.1%	4,000,921	Asia
95	Portugal	61.3%	10,749,635	Europe
96	French Polynesia	61.7%	279,500	Oceania
97	Aruba	61.8%	107,566	Americas
98	Thailand	61.9%	65,859,640	Asia
99	Kazakhstan	62.1%	20,426,568	Asia
100	Serbia	62.4%	6,567,783	Europe
101	Kiribati	62.5%	120,740	Oceania
102	North Macedonia	62.6%	1,822,612	Europe
103	Morocco	62.8%	36,828,330	Africa
104	Nigeria	63.0%	223,800,000	Africa
105	Ecuador	63.2%	18,103,660	Americas
106	South Africa	63.7%	63,100,945	Africa
107	North Korea	63.9%	25,950,000	Asia
108	Republic of the Congo	63.9%	6,142,180	Africa
109	Gambia	64.3%	2,422,712	Africa
110	Ireland	64.3%	5,458,600	Europe
111	Tuvalu	64.7%	10,643	Oceania
112	Montenegro	65.5%	623,327	Europe
113	Suriname	65.8%	616,500	Americas
114	Armenia	65.8%	3,076,200	Asia
115	China	65.9%	1,408,280,000	Asia
116	Panama	66.0%	4,064,780	Americas
117	Cyprus	66.7%	1,442,614	Europe
118	Nepal	66.8%	29,911,840	Asia
119	Botswana	67.5%	2,359,609	Africa
120	New Caledonia	68.0%	264,596	Oceania
121	Latvia	68.5%	1,829,000	Europe
122	Lithuania	68.8%	2,894,886	Europe
123	São Tomé and Príncipe	68.9%	209,607	Africa
124	Austria	69.5%	9,200,931	Europe
125	Ukraine	69.5%	32,862,000	Europe
126	Italy	69.6%	58,927,633	Europe
127	Paraguay	69.9%	6,109,644	Americas
128	Iraq	69.9%	46,118,793	Asia
129	Tunisia	70.4%	11,972,169	Africa
130	Hungary	70.5%	9,539,502	Europe
131	Angola	70.7%	36,170,961	Africa
132	Estonia	70.7%	1,369,995	Europe
133	Mongolia	71.0%	3,544,835	Asia
134	Bolivia	71.2%	11,365,333	Americas
135	Equatorial Guinea	71.4%	1,668,768	Africa
136	Syria	72.1%	25,620,000	Asia
137	Dominican Republic	72.4%	10,771,504	Americas
138	Czechia	72.8%	10,882,341	Europe
139	Djibouti	72.9%	1,066,809	Africa
140	Dominica	73.5%	67,408	Americas
141	Bulgaria	74.0%	6,437,360	Europe
142	Finland	74.3%	5,650,325	Europe
143	Brunei	74.9%	455,500	Asia
144	El Salvador	75.1%	6,029,976	Americas
145	Russia	75.1%	146,028,325	Europe
146	Algeria	75.3%	47,400,000	Africa
147	Cape Verde	76.8%	491,233	Africa
148	Malaysia	76.9%	34,231,700	Asia
149	Iran	77.0%	85,961,000	Asia
150	Cuba	77.2%	9,748,007	Americas
151	Colombia	78.5%	53,057,212	Americas
152	Marshall Islands	78.7%	42,418	Oceania
153	France	78.8%	66,351,959	Europe
154	Greece	79.0%	10,400,720	Europe
155	Belarus	79.2%	9,109,280	Europe
156	Palau	79.2%	16,733	Oceania
157	Costa Rica	79.3%	5,309,625	Americas
158	Oman	79.4%	5,343,630	Asia
159	Mexico	79.8%	130,575,786	Americas
160	United States	80.1%	340,110,988	Americas
161	Spain	80.3%	49,315,949	Europe
162	American Samoa	80.9%	49,710	Oceania
163	South Korea	81.2%	51,159,889	Asia
164	Bahamas	81.3%	398,165	Americas
165	Germany	82.0%	83,491,249	Europe
166	Canada	82.7%	41,651,653	Americas
167	United Kingdom	83.2%	69,281,437	Europe
168	Norway	83.3%	5,606,944	Europe
169	New Zealand	83.9%	5,324,700	Oceania
170	Saudi Arabia	84.5%	35,300,280	Asia
171	Peru	85.2%	34,350,244	Americas
172	Switzerland	85.5%	9,082,848	Europe
173	United Arab Emirates	85.8%	11,294,243	Asia
174	Palestine	87.1%	5,483,450	Asia
175	Australia	87.6%	27,536,874	Oceania
176	Belgium	87.6%	11,825,551	Europe
177	Libya	87.9%	7,459,000	Africa
178	Brazil	87.9%	213,421,037	Americas
179	Greenland	88.3%	56,542	Americas
180	Denmark	88.7%	6,011,488	Europe
181	Sweden	88.9%	10,605,098	Europe
182	Andorra	88.9%	88,406	Europe
183	Chile	89.0%	20,206,953	Americas
184	Venezuela	89.3%	28,517,000	Americas
185	Turkey	89.3%	85,664,944	Asia
186	Lebanon	90.7%	5,490,000	Asia
187	Curaçao	91.4%	156,115	Americas
188	Israel	91.5%	10,134,800	Asia
189	Gabon	91.9%	2,469,296	Africa
190	Northern Mariana Islands	92.1%	47,329	Oceania
191	Japan	92.2%	123,210,000	Asia
192	Argentina	92.3%	46,735,004	Americas
193	Jordan	93.0%	11,734,000	Asia
194	Guam	94.2%	153,836	Oceania
195	Turks and Caicos Islands	94.2%	50,828	Americas
196	Iceland	94.2%	391,810	Europe
197	Puerto Rico	94.3%	3,203,295	Americas
198	Luxembourg	94.8%	681,973	Europe
199	United States Virgin Islands	95.3%	87,146	Americas
200	Uruguay	95.6%	3,499,451	Americas
201	Netherlands	95.6%	18,100,436	Europe
202	Malta	95.7%	574,250	Europe
203	San Marino	97.2%	34,132	Europe
204	Qatar	99.3%	3,173,024	Asia
205	Hong Kong	100.0%	7,527,500	Asia
206	Singapore	100.0%	6,110,200	Asia
207	Kuwait	100.0%	4,881,254	Asia
208	Bahrain	100.0%	1,594,654	Asia
209	Macau	100.0%	685,900	Asia
210	Cayman Islands	100.0%	84,738	Americas
211	Bermuda	100.0%	64,055	Americas
212	Sint Maarten	100.0%	41,349	Americas
213	Monaco	100.0%	38,423	Europe
214	Gibraltar	100.0%	38,000	Europe
215	Saint Martin	100.0%	31,496	Americas
216	Nauru	100.0%	11,680	Oceania