| Urban population | Population total | ||||
| Millions | 1970 | 1990 | 2010 | 2015 | 2015 |
| World | 1340 | 2258 | 3552 | 3943 | 7347 |
| Low income | 30 | 73 | 160 | 196 | 638 |
| Middle income | 714 | 1426 | 2450 | 2763 | 5478 |
| High income | 577 | 731 | 904 | 944 | 1187 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 317 | 606 | 1130 | 1277 | 2279 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 448 | 569 | 621 | 642 | 908 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 134 | 268 | 410 | 442 | 562 |
| Middle East & North Africa | 59 | 140 | 241 | 272 | 424 |
| South Asia | 133 | 283 | 505 | 576 | 1744 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 53 | 137 | 308 | 378 | 1001 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 28 |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 14 | 25 | 35 | 39 | 92 |
| India | 109 | 222 | 381 | 429 | 1311 |
| China | 142 | 300 | 658 | 763 | 1371 |
| Brazil | 54 | 111 | 168 | 178 | 208 |
| Turkey | 13 | 32 | 51 | 58 | 79 |
| Russian Federation | 81 | 109 | 105 | 107 | 144 |
| Germany | 56 | 58 | 61 | 61 | 81 |
| United States | 151 | 188 | 250 | 262 | 321 |
| Source: World Bank Data | |||||
| Links above will take you directly to relevant pages at www.worldbank.org | |||||
| The regions do not include high income countries | |||||
| /karsten duus 9/2016 | |||||