Population Living in Cities (Degree of Urbanisation)

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: population-in-cities-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Population Living in Cities (Degree of Urbanisation): what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	222	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	222	0
Population living in cities, Degree of Urbanisation (%)population_in_citiesHeadline	The headline figure: Share of the population living in cities as the Degree of Urbanisation defines them (%).	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.00036 share it100.0003 share itmiddle 36.651	185	0
Population in towns and semi-dense areas (%)towns_semi_denseMeasure	Share of the population living in towns and semi-dense areas: urban clusters outside cities with at least 300 people per km² and 5,000 people in all.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.0007 share it98.504Bermudamiddle 30.834	216	0
Population in rural areas (%)rural_areasMeasure	Share of the population living in rural areas, the thinly populated land outside cities, towns and semi-dense areas. The three shares add up to 100.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.0003 share it100.0004 share itmiddle 24.967	214	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 76 years.

The same 222 countries in every year.

1. 1 · Publisher

   UN DESA Population Division

   population.un.org

2. 2 · Their file

   World Urbanization Prospects 2025: population living in cities (Degree of Urbanisation), % of total, 2025

   WUP2025-F02-Degree-of-Urbanization_percPop_by_category.xlsx

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   76 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as population-in-cities-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/population-in-cities

From World Urbanization Prospects 2025, read from the UN Population Division's own workbook of population shares by Degree of Urbanisation, which applies the European Commission's harmonised definition to its Global Human Settlement Layer grids. The workbook continues to 2050; those later years are projections and are excluded.

• Charted

  Population Living in Cities (Degree of Urbanisation) by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • People & Population

• Near neighbours

  • Urban Population Share (National Definitions)UN DESA Population Division · 76 held · 1950–2025
  • Crude Birth RateUN DESA Population Division · 74 held · 1950–2023
  • Crude Death RateUN DESA Population Division · 74 held · 1950–2023