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🌆 Population in Million-Plus Cities

Share of people living in urban agglomerations of more than one million residents.

📅 2025📏 %121 entries
100.0% – 39.2%36.1% – 25.0%24.6% – 19.5%19.3% – 13.6%13.5% – 4.4%No data
1
🇭🇰Hong Kong
100.0%
2
🇸🇬Singapore
100.0%
3
🇵🇷Puerto Rico
76.4%
4
🇰🇼Kuwait
70.0%
5
🇯🇵Japan
65.6%
6
🇨🇬Congo
65.3%
7
🇦🇺Australia
60.7%
8
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
57.5%
9
🇮🇱Israel
57.0%
10
🇺🇾Uruguay
52.8%
11
🇵🇾Paraguay
51.7%
12
🇰🇷South Korea
51.1%
13
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
49.2%
14
🇲🇳Mongolia
48.3%
15
🇺🇸United States
47.0%
16
🇵🇦Panama
44.9%
17
🇨🇴Colombia
44.5%
18
🇧🇷Brazil
44.3%
19
🇦🇷Argentina
44.2%
20
🇨🇦Canada
44.0%
21
🇲🇽Mexico
42.7%
22
🇧🇴Bolivia
42.5%
23
🇱🇧Lebanon
40.7%
24
🇵🇹Portugal
40.4%
25
🇹🇷Türkiye
39.2%
26
🇿🇦South Africa
36.1%
27
🇦🇲Armenia
35.6%
28
🇨🇱Chile
35.2%
29
🇻🇪Venezuela
35.2%
30
🇵🇪Peru
33.3%
31
🇨🇳China
32.7%
32
🇳🇿New Zealand
32.1%
33
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
31.7%
34
🇱🇷Liberia
31.3%
35
🇴🇲Oman
31.0%
36
🇨🇲Cameroon
30.8%
37
🇲🇷Mauritania
30.3%
38
🇬🇷Greece
30.3%
39
🇨🇷Costa Rica
29.2%
40
🇪🇨Ecuador
28.8%
41
🇬🇪Georgia
27.6%
42
🇬🇧United Kingdom
27.4%
43
🇧🇪Belgium
26.9%
44
🇸🇾Syria
26.5%
45
🇭🇹Haiti
26.3%
46
🇦🇴Angola
25.7%
47
🇪🇸Spain
25.4%
48
🇮🇷Iran
25.2%
49
🇲🇾Malaysia
25.0%
50
🇮🇶Iraq
24.6%

Highlights

As of 2025, Hong Kong ranks first with 100.0%, followed by Singapore (100.0%) and Puerto Rico (76.4%).

The top two are virtually level: Hong Kong and Singapore differ by less than 1%.

Across 121 countries and territories, values run from 100.0% (Hong Kong) to 4.4% (Ethiopia), with a median of 22.8%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Asia, 2 from the Americas, 1 from Africa and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026