Countries in Asia by urban population

Countries in Asia by urban population, World Bank, 2025

#	Country	% urban	Region
=1	Bahrain	100%	Western Asia
=1	Kuwait	100%	Western Asia
=1	Singapore	100%	South-Eastern Asia
4	Qatar	99%	Western Asia
5	Jordan	93%	Western Asia
6	Japan	92%	Eastern Asia
7	Israel	92%	Western Asia
8	Lebanon	91%	Western Asia
9	Turkey	90%	Western Asia
10	United Arab Emirates	86%	Western Asia
11	Saudi Arabia	85%	Western Asia
12	South Korea	81%	Eastern Asia
13	Oman	80%	Western Asia
=14	Iran	77%	Southern Asia
=14	Malaysia	77%	South-Eastern Asia
16	Brunei	75%	South-Eastern Asia
17	Syria	72%	Western Asia
18	Mongolia	71%	Eastern Asia
19	Iraq	70%	Western Asia
20	Nepal	67%	Southern Asia
21	Cyprus	67%	Western Asia
22	China	66%	Eastern Asia
23	Armenia	66%	Western Asia
24	North Korea	64%	Eastern Asia
25	Thailand	63%	South-Eastern Asia
26	Kazakhstan	62%	Central Asia
27	Georgia	61%	Western Asia
28	Indonesia	59%	South-Eastern Asia
29	Azerbaijan	59%	Western Asia
30	Philippines	56%	South-Eastern Asia
31	Uzbekistan	51%	Central Asia
32	Turkmenistan	47%	Central Asia
33	Bhutan	43%	Southern Asia
34	Maldives	43%	Southern Asia
35	Cambodia	41%	South-Eastern Asia
36	Laos	40%	South-Eastern Asia
37	Pakistan	40%	Southern Asia
38	Vietnam	39%	South-Eastern Asia
39	Yemen	37%	Western Asia
40	India	36%	Southern Asia
41	Kyrgyzstan	35%	Central Asia
42	Bangladesh	33%	Southern Asia
43	Myanmar	31%	South-Eastern Asia
44	Timor-Leste	29%	South-Eastern Asia
45	Tajikistan	26%	Central Asia
46	Afghanistan	26%	Southern Asia
47	Sri Lanka	21%	Southern Asia

No World Bank figure for Taiwan.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed. Highest first.

Place	% urban	Status
Hong Kong	100%	Territory of China
Macao	100%	Territory of China
Palestine	87%	Status disputed

Questions

Which country in Asia has the most urban population?

Bahrain has the most urban population in Asia: 100% urban (2025). Next come Kuwait (100% urban) and Singapore (100% urban).

Which country in Asia has the most rural population?

Sri Lanka, with 21% urban (2025).

What is the typical urban population of a country in Asia?

The median of the 47 countries in Asia is 64% urban: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

The share of people living in urban areas, as each country defines them — the World Bank does not impose one definition. Source: World Bank, 2025. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.