Urban population (% of total population)

Name: Urban population (% of total population)
Creator: World Bank
License: https://data.worldbank.org/terms-and-conditions
Keywords: urbanization, population, demographics, world-bank, annual

Commercial use OKFreshLicense: CC-BY-4.0

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Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices; the data are collected and smoothed by the UN Population Division and published by the World Bank in the World Development Indicators. Urbanization is measured as the share of a country's total de facto population living in urban areas. National definitions of 'urban' differ (administrative boundaries, population-size thresholds, infrastructure criteria), so cross-country comparisons carry definition noise - use as a covariate, not a league table. It joins the connector's population-total and population-growth datasets: total population x urban share = urban headcount. Fully covered 2000-2025 on the 8-country panel (USA 80.2% / India 35.7% in 2025). Values are bounded 0-100 by construction. Units: % of total population.

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: % of total population)

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

country_code	country_name	year	value
CAN	Canada	2,000	78.629
CAN	Canada	2,001	78.841
CAN	Canada	2,002	79.099
CAN	Canada	2,003	79.391
CAN	Canada	2,004	79.692
CAN	Canada	2,005	79.976
CAN	Canada	2,006	80.219
CAN	Canada	2,007	80.443
CAN	Canada	2,008	80.663
CAN	Canada	2,009	80.859

Profiled Sep 24, 2026 from snapshot 20260924T202358Z-419e4161dc0b

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%	195	27.65 → 92.3median 80.15	6 outside 1st–99th percentile

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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/urban_population_share" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

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import requests

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

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

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/urban_population_share

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World Bank. (2026). Urban population (% of total population) [Data set, snapshot 20260924T202358Z-419e4161dc0b, sha256 419e4161dc0b]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-24, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/urban_population_share?snapshot=20260924T202358Z-419e4161dc0b

BibTeX

@misc{dz_world_bank_urban_population_share_419e4161,
  title        = {{Urban population (\% of total population)}},
  author       = {{World Bank}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/urban_population_share?snapshot=20260924T202358Z-419e4161dc0b}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20260924T202358Z-419e4161dc0b, sha256 419e4161dc0b6319d088c07960092f9654e3436cc77a52db1bcd0dd846d341b0; accessed 2026-09-24}
}

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