Urban Population — World Ranking

The share of people living in urban areas, measured by the definition each country itself uses — a mirror of economic transformation.

Malaysia sits at #69 of 215 countries with a value of 76.4% — the full leaderboard is in the table below.

The top 50 — Urban Population

Sorted with the highest value first (a neutral indicator — both ends of the scale have a story), data year 2023. Flags: flagcdn; every country name links to its full profile.

#	Country	Value
1	Bahrain	100%
2	Bermuda	100%
3	Cayman Islands	100%
4	Gibraltar	100%
5	Hong Kong	100%
6	Kuwait	100%
7	Macau	100%
8	Saint Martin	100%
9	Monaco	100%
10	Nauru	100%
11	Singapore	100%
12	Sint Maarten	100%
13	Qatar	99.3%
14	San Marino	97.1%
15	Malta	95.6%
16	Uruguay	95.5%
17	Netherlands	95.3%
18	United States Virgin Islands	95.3%
19	Luxembourg	94.8%
20	Puerto Rico	94.2%
21	Iceland	94.2%
22	Guam	94.1%
23	Turks and Caicos Islands	93.9%
24	Jordan	92.7%
25	Argentina	92.2%
26	Japan	92.1%
27	Northern Mariana Islands	92%
28	Gabon	91.6%
29	Israel	91.5%
30	Curaçao	91.4%
31	Lebanon	90.5%
32	Venezuela	89.2%
33	Türkiye	89%
34	Andorra	88.8%
35	Chile	88.8%
36	Sweden	88.6%
37	Denmark	88.6%
38	Greenland	88.1%
39	Libya	87.9%
40	Brazil	87.6%
41	Belgium	87.6%
42	Australia	87.5%
43	Palestine	86.9%
44	United Arab Emirates	85.7%
45	Switzerland	85.2%
46	Peru	84.8%
47	Saudi Arabia	84.3%
48	New Zealand	83.9%
49	United Kingdom	83.2%
50	Norway	83.1%

Global distribution

Source: World Bank Open Data — borrowed from the Country Complex dataset — public data with no API key, licensed CC BY 4.0. The full profile of every country: Country Complex · live natural events: Disaster Complex.