Urban Population / Palau
Palau Urban Population
Palau urban population data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 79.28%.
COUNTRY: Palau
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-29 18:45:21
GM ECONOMY RATING
Palau · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
54 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
13.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
14.0 / 20
External stability
1.2 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
5.8 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Palau · urban population data as percent of GDP.
Latest
79.28%
Previous
79.21%
Range avg.
79.37%
Rank
38
Countries by urban population
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CountryPalau
IndicatorUrban Population
79.28%2025 · Rank 38
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Palau recorded 79.28% for Urban Population in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.07 percentage points, from 79.21% to 79.28%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (79.37%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 79.08% in 2020 and the high was 80.11% in 2016.
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