COUNTRY / INDICATOR

Malawi Urban Population

Malawi urban population: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.

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Series overview

SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS

COUNTRY: MalawiINDICATOR: SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZSUNIT: percentSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-09-30 02:09:11REVISIONS: 24ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

17,59Latest / 2025

0,33Change from previous

16,54Series average

214Global rank / 217

Malawi / Urban Population Unit: Percent (%)

Selected year: 202517,59%

201620252025

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Year	Value	Change
2025	17,59	0,33
2024	17,27	0,29
2023	16,97	0,26
2022	16,71	0,23
2021	16,49	0,19
2020	16,30	0,16
2019	16,14	0,12
2018	16,02	0,06
2017	15,96	0,06
2016	15,90	—

Source methodology

World Development Indicators

Indicator note: Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. The data are collected and smoothed by United Nations Population Division.

Source organization: World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, note: United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects, National definitions, publisher: UN Population Division

Metadata fetched: 2026-09-27 07:05:55. Open original metadata response.

Revision history

24 detected changes

Source revisions are retained before the current observation is replaced. This table documents the previous and replacement value for reproducibility.

Detected	Data year	Previous value	Replacement value	Source	Source update
2026-09-30 00:09:11	2020	16,30	16,30	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-30 00:09:11	2021	16,49	16,49	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-30 00:09:11	2022	16,71	16,71	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-30 00:09:11	2023	16,97	16,97	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-30 00:09:11	2024	17,27	17,27	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-30 00:09:11	2025	17,59	17,59	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:43:47	2020	16,30	16,30	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:43:46	2021	16,49	16,49	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:43:46	2022	16,71	16,71	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:43:46	2023	16,97	16,97	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:43:46	2024	17,27	17,27	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:43:46	2025	17,59	17,59	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 10:13:46	2020	16,30	16,30	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 10:13:46	2021	16,49	16,49	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 10:13:46	2022	16,71	16,71	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 10:13:46	2023	16,97	16,97	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 10:13:46	2024	17,27	17,27	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 10:13:46	2025	17,59	17,59	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:17:45	2020	16,30	16,30	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:17:45	2021	16,49	16,49	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:17:45	2022	16,71	16,71	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:17:45	2023	16,97	16,97	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:17:45	2024	17,27	17,27	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:17:45	2025	17,59	17,59	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Malawi recorded 17,59 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2024, the urban population increased by 0,33.

Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.

Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 16,54; the minimum was 15,90 in 2016 and the maximum was 17,59 in 2025.

Malawi ranks 214 out of 217 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is below the available average for Sub-Saharan Africa.

It is also below the available average for the Low income group.

Urbanization and settlement structure.

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