Urban Population / India
India Urban Population
India urban population data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 35.69%.
COUNTRY: India
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-29 18:45:21
GM ECONOMY RATING
India · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
72 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
9.1 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
19.0 / 20
External stability
11.0 / 15
Financial robustness
14.0 / 15
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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India · urban population data as percent of GDP.
Latest
35.69%
Previous
35.38%
Range avg.
34.28%
Rank
98
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35.69%2025 · Rank 98
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
India recorded 35.69% for Urban Population in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.31 percentage points, from 35.38% to 35.69%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (34.28%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 32.87% in 2016 and the high was 35.69% in 2025.
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