Urban population share in Guinea

38.5% of people in Guinea lived in urban areas in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1960.

Measure: Urban population share Unit: % of total population Data: 1960 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Guinea, 2025 38.5% % of total population
Change from 2024 +0.4percentage points 2024: 38.1%
World, 2025 57.8% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 177th of 217 See the full ranking

Urban population share in Guinea 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.

Urban population share (% of total population), 2001 to 2025
Period GuineaWorld
2025 38.5% 57.8%
2024 38.1% 57.6%
2023 37.6% 57.3%
2022 37.2% 57.1%
2021 36.9% 56.8%
2020 36.5% 56.4%
2019 36.1% 56.1%
2018 35.9% 55.8%
2017 35.6% 55.3%
2016 35.3% 54.9%
2015 35.0% 54.4%
2014 34.8% 53.9%
2013 34.6% 53.4%
2012 34.3% 52.9%
2011 34.1% 52.5%
2010 33.8% 51.8%
2009 33.5% 51.4%
2008 33.3% 50.9%
2007 33.0% 50.4%
2006 32.7% 49.9%
2005 32.4% 49.4%
2004 32.1% 48.9%
2003 31.8% 48.4%
2002 31.5% 47.8%
2001 31.2% 47.3%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.4 percentage points from 38.1% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 35.0%, the figure has changed by +3.5 percentage points.
  • Among the 217 countries with data for 2025, Guinea has the 177th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 57.8%.

Source and dates

Original producer
United Nations Population Division, World Urbanization Prospects
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2025 for Guinea
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: United Nations Population Division, World Urbanization Prospects