Most Urbanized Countries (2026)

Hong Kong is the most urbanized country in the world with 100.0% of its population living in urban areas. Globally, about 56% of people live in cities, a figure that continues to rise as urbanization accelerates.

#1

Hong Kong

100.0%

#2

Singapore

100.0%

#3

Kuwait

100.0%

Most Urbanized Countries - 216 countries ranked by Urban %

Rank	Country	Urban %	Population	Region
1	Hong Kong	100.0%	7,524,100	Asia
2	Singapore	100.0%	6,036,860	Asia
3	Kuwait	100.0%	4,897,263	Asia
4	Bahrain	100.0%	1,588,670	Asia
5	Macau	100.0%	687,000	Asia
6	Cayman Islands	100.0%	74,457	Americas
7	Bermuda	100.0%	64,636	Americas
8	Sint Maarten	100.0%	43,350	Americas
9	Gibraltar	100.0%	39,329	Europe
10	Monaco	100.0%	38,631	Europe
11	Saint Martin	100.0%	26,129	Americas
12	Nauru	100.0%	11,947	Oceania
13	Qatar	99.3%	2,857,822	Asia
14	San Marino	97.2%	33,977	Europe
15	Malta	95.7%	568,847	Europe
16	Netherlands	95.6%	17,993,485	Europe
17	Uruguay	95.6%	3,386,588	Americas
18	United States Virgin Islands	95.3%	104,377	Americas
19	Luxembourg	94.8%	677,012	Europe
20	Puerto Rico	94.3%	3,203,295	Americas
21	Iceland	94.2%	386,506	Europe
22	Guam	94.2%	167,777	Oceania
23	Turks and Caicos Islands	94.2%	46,535	Americas
24	Jordan	93.0%	11,552,876	Asia
25	Argentina	92.3%	45,696,159	Americas
26	Japan	92.2%	123,975,371	Asia
27	Northern Mariana Islands	92.1%	44,278	Oceania
28	Gabon	91.9%	2,538,952	Africa
29	Israel	91.5%	9,974,400	Asia
30	Curaçao	91.4%	155,967	Americas
31	Lebanon	90.7%	5,805,962	Asia
32	Turkey	89.3%	85,518,661	Asia
33	Venezuela	89.3%	28,405,543	Americas
34	Chile	89.0%	19,764,771	Americas
35	Andorra	88.9%	81,938	Europe
36	Sweden	88.9%	10,569,709	Europe
37	Denmark	88.7%	5,976,992	Europe
38	Greenland	88.3%	56,836	Americas
39	Brazil	87.9%	211,998,573	Americas
40	Libya	87.9%	7,381,023	Africa
41	Belgium	87.6%	11,858,610	Europe
42	Australia	87.6%	27,196,812	Oceania
43	Palestine	87.1%	5,289,152	Asia
44	United Arab Emirates	85.8%	10,986,400	Asia
45	Switzerland	85.5%	9,005,582	Europe
46	Peru	85.2%	34,217,848	Americas
47	Saudi Arabia	84.5%	35,300,280	Asia
48	New Zealand	83.9%	5,287,500	Oceania
49	Norway	83.3%	5,572,279	Europe
50	United Kingdom	83.2%	69,226,000	Europe
51	Canada	82.7%	41,288,599	Americas
52	Germany	82.0%	83,516,593	Europe
53	Bahamas	81.3%	401,283	Americas
54	South Korea	81.2%	51,751,065	Asia
55	American Samoa	80.9%	46,765	Oceania
56	Spain	80.3%	48,848,840	Europe
57	United States	80.1%	340,110,988	Americas
58	Mexico	79.8%	130,861,007	Americas
59	Oman	79.4%	5,281,538	Asia
60	Costa Rica	79.3%	5,129,910	Americas
61	Palau	79.2%	17,695	Oceania
62	Belarus	79.2%	9,132,629	Europe
63	Greece	79.0%	10,405,134	Europe
64	France	78.8%	68,551,653	Europe
65	Marshall Islands	78.7%	37,548	Oceania
66	Colombia	78.5%	52,886,363	Americas
67	Cuba	77.2%	10,979,783	Americas
68	Iran	77.0%	91,567,738	Asia
69	Malaysia	76.9%	35,557,673	Asia
70	Cape Verde	76.8%	524,877	Africa
71	Algeria	75.3%	46,814,308	Africa
72	Russia	75.1%	143,533,851	Europe
73	El Salvador	75.1%	6,338,193	Americas
74	Brunei	74.9%	462,721	Asia
75	Finland	74.3%	5,619,911	Europe
76	Bulgaria	74.0%	6,441,421	Europe
77	Dominica	73.5%	66,205	Americas
78	Djibouti	72.9%	1,168,722	Africa
79	Czechia	72.8%	10,905,028	Europe
80	Dominican Republic	72.4%	11,427,557	Americas
81	Syria	72.1%	24,672,760	Asia
82	Equatorial Guinea	71.4%	1,892,516	Africa
83	Bolivia	71.2%	12,413,315	Americas
84	Mongolia	71.0%	3,524,788	Asia
85	Estonia	70.7%	1,372,341	Europe
86	Angola	70.7%	37,885,849	Africa
87	Hungary	70.5%	9,562,065	Europe
88	Tunisia	70.4%	12,277,109	Africa
89	Iraq	69.9%	46,042,015	Asia
90	Paraguay	69.9%	6,929,153	Americas
91	Italy	69.6%	58,952,704	Europe
92	Ukraine	69.5%	37,860,221	Europe
93	Austria	69.5%	9,177,982	Europe
94	São Tomé and Príncipe	68.9%	235,536	Africa
95	Lithuania	68.8%	2,888,278	Europe
96	Latvia	68.5%	1,866,124	Europe
97	New Caledonia	68.0%	292,639	Oceania
98	Botswana	67.5%	2,521,139	Africa
99	Nepal	66.8%	29,651,054	Asia
100	Cyprus	66.7%	1,358,282	Europe
101	Panama	66.0%	4,515,577	Americas
102	China	65.9%	1,408,975,000	Asia
103	Armenia	65.8%	3,033,500	Asia
104	Suriname	65.8%	634,431	Americas
105	Montenegro	65.5%	623,525	Europe
106	Tuvalu	64.7%	9,646	Oceania
107	Ireland	64.3%	5,395,790	Europe
108	Gambia	64.3%	2,759,988	Africa
109	Republic of the Congo	63.9%	6,332,961	Africa
110	North Korea	63.9%	26,498,823	Asia
111	South Africa	63.7%	64,007,187	Africa
112	Ecuador	63.2%	18,135,478	Americas
113	Nigeria	63.0%	232,679,478	Africa
114	Morocco	62.8%	38,081,173	Africa
115	North Macedonia	62.6%	1,824,359	Europe
116	Kiribati	62.5%	134,518	Oceania
117	Serbia	62.4%	6,586,476	Europe
118	Kazakhstan	62.1%	20,592,571	Asia
119	Thailand	61.9%	71,668,011	Asia
120	Aruba	61.8%	107,995	Americas
121	French Polynesia	61.7%	281,807	Oceania
122	Portugal	61.3%	10,694,681	Europe
123	Georgia	61.1%	3,699,557	Asia
124	Mauritania	60.6%	5,169,395	Africa
125	Poland	60.0%	36,559,233	Europe
126	Barbados	59.5%	282,467	Americas
127	Nicaragua	59.3%	6,916,140	Americas
128	Fiji	59.1%	928,784	Oceania
129	Jamaica	58.9%	2,839,175	Americas
130	Honduras	58.8%	10,825,703	Americas
131	Indonesia	58.8%	283,487,931	Asia
132	Azerbaijan	58.6%	10,202,830	Asia
133	Albania	58.5%	2,377,128	Europe
134	Ghana	58.4%	34,427,414	Africa
135	Croatia	57.5%	3,866,200	Europe
136	British Virgin Islands	56.5%	39,471	Americas
137	Guatemala	56.0%	18,406,359	Americas
138	Slovenia	55.8%	2,127,400	Europe
139	Liberia	55.5%	5,612,817	Africa
140	Philippines	55.5%	115,843,670	Asia
141	Cameroon	55.4%	29,123,744	Africa
142	Senegal	55.2%	18,501,984	Africa
143	Haiti	55.0%	11,772,557	Americas
144	Somalia	54.6%	19,009,151	Africa
145	Ivory Coast	54.0%	31,934,230	Africa
146	Trinidad and Tobago	54.0%	1,368,333	Americas
147	Slovakia	53.2%	5,422,069	Europe
148	Benin	52.5%	14,462,724	Africa
149	Romania	52.2%	19,051,804	Europe
150	Isle of Man	52.2%	84,160	Europe
151	Bosnia and Herzegovina	52.1%	3,164,253	Europe
152	Uzbekistan	51.0%	36,361,859	Asia
153	Namibia	50.4%	3,030,131	Africa
154	Kosovo	50.3%	1,594,353	Europe
155	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	47.9%	100,616	Americas
156	Turkmenistan	47.1%	7,494,498	Asia
157	Guinea-Bissau	46.1%	2,201,352	Africa
158	Zambia	45.5%	21,314,956	Africa
159	Sierra Leone	45.4%	8,642,022	Africa
160	Seychelles	45.3%	121,354	Africa
161	DR Congo	44.8%	109,276,265	Africa
162	Central African Republic	44.1%	5,330,690	Africa
163	Togo	43.8%	9,515,236	Africa
164	Lesotho	43.7%	2,337,423	Africa
165	Moldova	43.5%	2,402,306	Europe
166	Egypt	42.8%	116,538,258	Africa
167	Bhutan	42.6%	791,524	Asia
168	Maldives	42.0%	527,799	Asia
169	Belize	41.8%	417,072	Americas
170	Cambodia	40.9%	17,638,801	Asia
171	Zimbabwe	39.9%	16,634,373	Africa
172	Laos	39.6%	7,769,819	Asia
173	Faroe Islands	39.4%	54,681	Europe
174	Pakistan	39.2%	251,269,164	Asia
175	Mauritius	39.0%	1,245,779	Africa
176	Vietnam	38.5%	100,987,686	Asia
177	Guinea	38.1%	14,754,785	Africa
178	Yemen	36.8%	40,583,164	Asia
179	Grenada	36.6%	117,207	Americas
180	Mozambique	36.4%	34,631,766	Africa
181	Tanzania	36.2%	68,560,157	Africa
182	India	35.4%	1,450,935,791	Asia
183	Sudan	34.9%	50,448,963	Africa
184	Kyrgyzstan	34.7%	7,221,868	Asia
185	Eritrea	34.5%	3,535,603	Africa
186	Comoros	33.5%	866,628	Africa
187	Bangladesh	32.7%	173,562,364	Asia
188	Madagascar	32.4%	31,964,956	Africa
189	Kenya	31.9%	56,432,944	Africa
190	Saint Kitts and Nevis	31.8%	46,843	Americas
191	Mali	31.6%	24,478,595	Africa
192	Uganda	31.3%	50,015,092	Africa
193	Solomon Islands	30.7%	819,198	Oceania
194	Myanmar	30.4%	54,500,091	Asia
195	Rwanda	29.9%	14,256,567	Africa
196	Saint Lucia	29.1%	179,744	Americas
197	Timor-Leste	28.7%	1,400,638	Asia
198	Burkina Faso	28.3%	23,548,781	Africa
199	Chad	26.9%	20,299,123	Africa
200	Guyana	26.5%	831,087	Americas
201	Eswatini	26.3%	1,242,822	Africa
202	Tajikistan	26.2%	10,590,927	Asia
203	Afghanistan	25.7%	42,647,492	Asia
204	Burundi	24.8%	14,047,786	Africa
205	Antigua and Barbuda	24.4%	93,772	Americas
206	Ethiopia	23.6%	132,059,767	Africa
207	Micronesia	22.5%	113,160	Oceania
208	Vanuatu	22.3%	327,777	Oceania
209	South Sudan	21.4%	11,943,408	Africa
210	Tonga	21.1%	104,175	Oceania
211	Sri Lanka	20.3%	21,916,000	Asia
212	Niger	18.1%	27,032,412	Africa
213	Samoa	17.5%	218,019	Oceania
214	Malawi	17.3%	21,655,286	Africa
215	Papua New Guinea	15.4%	10,576,502	Oceania
216	Liechtenstein	14.7%	40,450	Europe