Dataset
Annual growth rate of urban population share
owid.annual-growth-rate-of-urban-population-share
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About
Average annual rate of change of the share of the population living in urban areas. Projected average annual rate of change of the share of the population living in urban areas.
Cite as: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Average annual rate of change of the urban share – UN national definitions” [dataset]. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, “World Urbanization Prospects 2025 – Average Annual Rate of Change of Percentage Urban and Rural by National Definition” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1950–2049
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-02-17
- Units
- %
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-growth-rate-of-urban-population-share
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| share_growth_rate__area_type_urban__data_type_estimates | number | Average annual rate of change of the urban share (%) |
| share_growth_rate__area_type_urban__data_type_projections | number | Average annual rate of change of the urban share (%) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |