Urban population growth (annual %)

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Urban population growth is the exponential rate of growth of the urban population from year t-1 to t, expressed in percent (UN Population Division via the World Development Indicators). It complements the connector's urban-population-share dataset: share is the level, growth is the flow. Growth can be negative where the urban population is shrinking (Japan -0.37% in 2025, the only negative panel member). Urban areas are defined by national statistical offices, so cross-country comparisons carry definition noise. Fully covered 2000-2025 on the 8-country panel (India 1.76% / Germany 0.11% in 2025). Values are null where national statistics are unavailable and are never interpolated. Units: annual %.

Source: World Bank
Rows: 208
Columns: 4
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Sep 24, 2026
Theme: demographics

Column	Type	Description
country_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code).
country_name	string	Country name as published by the World Bank API.
year	integer	Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date).
value	float	Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: annual %)

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

country_code	country_name	year	value
CAN	Canada	2,000	1.167
CAN	Canada	2,001	1.356
CAN	Canada	2,002	1.411
CAN	Canada	2,003	1.268
CAN	Canada	2,004	1.311
CAN	Canada	2,005	1.303
CAN	Canada	2,006	1.317
CAN	Canada	2,007	1.249
CAN	Canada	2,008	1.357
CAN	Canada	2,009	1.388

Profiled Sep 24, 2026 from snapshot 20260924T202407Z-917f95d68569

Measured

Completeness: 100%
Rows: 208
Columns: 4
Columns with gaps: 0

Rows per yearyear · 2000–2025 · 26 years

20002025

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
country_codevarchar	0%	7	—	CAN26 CHN26 DEU26
country_namevarchar	0%	9	—	Canada26 China26 France26
yearbigint	0%	27	2,000 → 2,025median 2,013
valuedouble	0%	202	-1.81 → 5.68median 0.9461	6 outside 1st–99th percentile

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ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/urban_population_growth").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

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World Bank. (2026). Urban population growth (annual %) [Data set, snapshot 20260924T202407Z-917f95d68569, sha256 917f95d68569]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-24, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/urban_population_growth?snapshot=20260924T202407Z-917f95d68569

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@misc{dz_world_bank_urban_population_growth_917f95d6,
  title        = {{Urban population growth (annual \%)}},
  author       = {{World Bank}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/urban_population_growth?snapshot=20260924T202407Z-917f95d68569}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20260924T202407Z-917f95d68569, sha256 917f95d68569ebc84994ef9585c0d354ac0779c045c68662d59a40fa59dc54f8; accessed 2026-09-24}
}

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