Urban population share in Euro area
77.5% of people in the euro area lived in urban areas in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1960.
Euro area is a group: Euro area; membership follows each source definition (World Bank EMU, ECB U2 changing composition). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Euro area, 2025
77.5%
Change from 2024
+0.1percentage points
World, 2025
57.8%
Urban population share in Euro area over time
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% of total population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Euro area | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77.5% | 57.8% |
| 2024 | 77.3% | 57.6% |
| 2023 | 77.2% | 57.3% |
| 2022 | 77.1% | 57.1% |
| 2021 | 77.0% | 56.8% |
| 2020 | 76.9% | 56.4% |
| 2019 | 76.7% | 56.1% |
| 2018 | 76.6% | 55.8% |
| 2017 | 76.4% | 55.3% |
| 2016 | 76.3% | 54.9% |
| 2015 | 76.0% | 54.4% |
| 2014 | 75.8% | 53.9% |
| 2013 | 75.6% | 53.4% |
| 2012 | 75.4% | 52.9% |
| 2011 | 75.2% | 52.5% |
| 2010 | 75.1% | 51.8% |
| 2009 | 75.0% | 51.4% |
| 2008 | 74.8% | 50.9% |
| 2007 | 74.7% | 50.4% |
| 2006 | 74.6% | 49.9% |
| 2005 | 74.4% | 49.4% |
| 2004 | 74.3% | 48.9% |
| 2003 | 74.1% | 48.4% |
| 2002 | 74.0% | 47.8% |
| 2001 | 73.8% | 47.3% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +0.1 percentage points from 77.3% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 76.0%, the figure has changed by +1.5 percentage points.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 57.8%.
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Population
358,664,361 people
2025 · World Bank
Population growth
0.30%
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Population aged 65 and over
22.9%
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Population aged 0 to 14
14.0%
2025 · World Bank
Fertility rate
1.35 births per woman
2024 · World Bank
Crude birth rate
8.0 per 1,000 people
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