Urban Population / Nepal
Nepal Urban Population
Nepal urban population data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 67.00%.
COUNTRY: Nepal
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-29 18:45:21
GM ECONOMY RATING
Nepal · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
68 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
13.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
16.0 / 20
External stability
15.0 / 15
Financial robustness
6.0 / 15
Structural stability
9.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Nepal · urban population data as percent of GDP.
Latest
67.00%
Previous
66.77%
Range avg.
66.15%
Rank
62
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CountryNepal
IndicatorUrban Population
67.00%2025 · Rank 62
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Nepal recorded 67.00% for Urban Population in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.23 percentage points, from 66.77% to 67.00%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (66.15%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 65.29% in 2016 and the high was 67.00% in 2025.
Comparison
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