COUNTRY / INDICATOR

Uganda Urban Population

Uganda 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: UgandaINDICATOR: SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZSUNIT: percentSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-09-28 22:04:06REVISIONS: 24ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

31,94Latest / 2025

0,66Change from previous

28,86Series average

192Global rank / 217

Uganda / Urban Population Unit: Percent (%)

Selected year: 202531,94%

201620252025

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Year	Value	Change
2025	31,94	0,66
2024	31,28	0,67
2023	30,61	0,68
2022	29,93	0,69
2021	29,24	0,70
2020	28,54	0,70
2019	27,84	0,71
2018	27,13	0,71
2017	26,41	0,72
2016	25,70	—

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 20:04:06	2020	28,54	28,54	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 20:04:06	2021	29,24	29,24	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 20:04:06	2022	29,93	29,93	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 20:04:06	2023	30,61	30,61	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 20:04:06	2024	31,28	31,28	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 20:04:06	2025	31,94	31,94	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 19:37:04	2020	28,54	28,54	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 19:37:04	2021	29,24	29,24	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 19:37:04	2022	29,93	29,93	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 19:37:04	2023	30,61	30,61	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 19:37:04	2024	31,28	31,28	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 19:37:04	2025	31,94	31,94	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 13:59:08	2020	28,54	28,54	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 13:59:08	2021	29,24	29,24	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 13:59:08	2022	29,93	29,93	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 13:59:08	2023	30,61	30,61	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 13:59:08	2024	31,28	31,28	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 13:59:08	2025	31,94	31,94	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:00:11	2020	28,54	28,54	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:00:11	2021	29,24	29,24	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:00:11	2022	29,93	29,93	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:00:11	2023	30,61	30,61	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:00:11	2024	31,28	31,28	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:00:11	2025	31,94	31,94	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Uganda recorded 31,94 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2024, the urban population increased by 0,66.

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

Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 28,86; the minimum was 25,70 in 2016 and the maximum was 31,94 in 2025.

Uganda ranks 192 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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