# EU countries by share of urban population, 2025

All 27 values come from World Bank for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `urban_population_share`
- Unit: %
- Definition: People living in urban areas, as each national statistical office defines them, as a percentage of total population. World Bank series based on the UN World Urbanization Prospects.
- Source: World Bank, Urban population, % of total population (SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-09
- Citation: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Urban population, % of total population (SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-09.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/urban-population/eu-countries
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/urban-population/eu-countries.csv

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Netherlands | 95.9 |
| 2 | Malta | 95.7 |
| 3 | Luxembourg | 94.9 |
| 4 | Sweden | 89.1 |
| 5 | Denmark | 88.8 |
| 6 | Belgium | 87.7 |
| 7 | Germany | 82.1 |
| 8 | Spain | 80.5 |
| 9 | Greece | 79.2 |
| 10 | France | 78.8 |
| 11 | Finland | 74.5 |
| 12 | Bulgaria | 74.2 |
| 13 | Czechia | 72.9 |
| 14 | Estonia | 70.7 |
| 15 | Hungary | 70.7 |
| 16 | Austria | 69.7 |
| 17 | Italy | 69.7 |
| 18 | Lithuania | 69.1 |
| 19 | Latvia | 68.6 |
| 20 | Cyprus | 66.7 |
| 21 | Ireland | 64.6 |
| 22 | Portugal | 61.5 |
| 23 | Poland | 60.1 |
| 24 | Croatia | 57.8 |
| 25 | Slovenia | 56 |
| 26 | Slovakia | 53.2 |
| 27 | Romania | 52.2 |