COUNTRY / INDICATOR

Malaysia Urban Population

Malaysia 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: MalaysiaINDICATOR: SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZSUNIT: percentSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-09-28 22:04:47REVISIONS: 24ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

77,39Latest / 2025

0,48Change from previous

75,48Series average

68Global rank / 217

Malaysia / Urban Population Unit: Percent (%)

Selected year: 202577,39%

201620252025

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Year	Value	Change
2025	77,39	0,48
2024	76,92	0,47
2023	76,44	0,47
2022	75,97	0,47
2021	75,51	0,46
2020	75,05	0,21
2019	74,84	0,27
2018	74,56	0,33
2017	74,24	0,38
2016	73,86	—

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
2026-09-28 20:04:47	2020	75,05	75,05	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 20:04:47	2021	75,51	75,51	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 20:04:47	2022	75,97	75,97	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 20:04:47	2023	76,44	76,44	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 20:04:47	2024	76,92	76,92	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 20:04:47	2025	77,39	77,39	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:49:37	2020	75,05	75,05	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:49:37	2021	75,51	75,51	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:49:37	2022	75,97	75,97	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:49:37	2023	76,44	76,44	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:49:37	2024	76,92	76,92	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:49:37	2025	77,39	77,39	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 09:27:02	2020	75,05	75,05	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 09:27:02	2021	75,51	75,51	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 09:27:02	2022	75,97	75,97	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 09:27:02	2023	76,44	76,44	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 09:27:02	2024	76,92	76,92	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 09:27:02	2025	77,39	77,39	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 19:52:51	2020	75,05	75,05	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 19:52:51	2021	75,51	75,51	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 19:52:51	2022	75,97	75,97	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 19:52:51	2023	76,44	76,44	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 19:52:51	2024	76,92	76,92	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 19:52:51	2025	77,39	77,39	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Malaysia recorded 77,39 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2024, the urban population increased by 0,48.

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

Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 75,48; the minimum was 73,86 in 2016 and the maximum was 77,39 in 2025.

Malaysia ranks 68 out of 217 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is above the available average for East Asia & Pacific.

It is also above the available average for the Upper middle income group.

Urbanization and settlement structure.

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