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