Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) - Density & urbanization - Environment - World Development Indicators

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Population in urban agglomerations of more than one million is the percentage of a country's population living in metropolitan areas that in 2000 had a population of more than one million people.

Rank	Country	Value
Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) - Density & urbanization - Environment - World Development Indicators (2007)
1	Singapore	100
2	Hong Kong	100
3	Kuwait	72.37
4	Puerto Rico	67.45
5	Australia	60.54
6	Israel	59.51
7	Libya	54.58
8	South Korea	48.38
9	North Korea	48.38
10	Japan	48.16
11	Uruguay	45.31
12	Lebanon	44.33
13	Canada	43.65
14	United States	43.36
15	Saudi Arabia	39.97
16	Argentina	39.10
17	Portugal	39.05
18	Brazil	38.76
19	Panama	38.28
20	Republic of the Congo	38.14
21	Armenia	35.87
22	Colombia	34.65
23	Chile	34.30
24	Latin America & Caribbean	34.09
25	Mexico	33.97
26	High income: OECD	33.94
27	South Africa	32.52
28	Venezuela	32.36
29	Bolivia	31.60
30	Ecuador	31.59
31	United Arab Emirates	31.49
32	Syria	30.86
33	Paraguay	30.50
34	New Zealand	29.80
35	Greece	29.08
36	Costa Rica	28.77
37	Liberia	28.73
38	Peru	28.10
39	Austria	27.74
40	Upper middle income	27.35
41	Turkey	27.29
42	United Kingdom	25.95
43	Georgia	25.24
44	Ireland	24.67
45	Spain	23.68
46	El Salvador	23.46
47	Togo	23.02
48	Angola	22.78
49	Iran	22.54
50	Azerbaijan	22.32
51	France	22.25
52	Senegal	21.95
53	Dominican Republic	21.93
54	Iraq	21.30
55	Finland	21.14
56	Haiti	20.59
57	Middle East & North Africa	20.38
58	Egypt	20.05
59	Denmark	19.94
60	Cuba	19.39
61	Ivory Coast	18.90
62	Cameroon	18.83
63	Morocco	18.64
64	Belarus	18.63
65	China	18.40
66	Euro area	18.33
67	Russia	17.92
68	Jordan	17.89
69	Middle income	17.80
70	Pakistan	17.66
71	Italy	17.30
72	Low & middle income	16.76
73	Hungary	16.74
74	Democratic Republic of the Congo	16.71
75	Belgium	16.67
76	Ghana	16.46
77	Europe & Central Asia	16.22
78	Guinea	15.56
79	Bulgaria	15.52
80	Switzerland	14.80
81	Philippines	14.08
82	Sweden	13.86
83	Nigeria	13.84
84	Sub-Saharan Africa	13.44
85	Vietnam	13.35
86	Zimbabwe	12.67
87	Somalia	12.60
88	Netherlands	12.40
89	Bangladesh	12.40
90	South Asia	12.27
91	Mali	12.04
92	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	11.93
93	Sudan	11.76
94	Afghanistan	11.59
95	India	11.49
96	Czech Republic	11.40
97	Ukraine	11.30
98	Serbia	11.15
99	Low income	11.08
100	Zambia	10.78
101	Cambodia	10.24
102	Thailand	10
103	Algeria	9.90
104	Madagascar	9.11
105	Romania	9.06
106	Indonesia	9.05
107	Yemen	9.02
108	Germany	9.01
109	Burma	8.32
110	Uzbekistan	7.98
111	Kenya	7.97
112	Kazakhstan	7.84
113	Burkina Faso	7.80
114	Guatemala	7.67
115	Tanzania	7.09
116	Mozambique	6.61
117	Malaysia	5.45
118	Uganda	4.64
119	Poland	4.48
120	Ethiopia	3.75

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Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) - Density & urbanization - Environment - World Development Indicators

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