Urban population share in Honduras

59.3% of people in Honduras 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
Honduras, 2025 59.3% % of total population
Change from 2024 +0.5percentage points 2024: 58.8%
World, 2025 57.8% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 131st of 217 See the full ranking

Urban population share in Honduras 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 HondurasWorld
2025 59.3% 57.8%
2024 58.8% 57.6%
2023 58.3% 57.3%
2022 57.8% 57.1%
2021 57.4% 56.8%
2020 56.9% 56.4%
2019 56.4% 56.1%
2018 55.9% 55.8%
2017 55.4% 55.3%
2016 54.9% 54.9%
2015 54.4% 54.4%
2014 53.9% 53.9%
2013 53.4% 53.4%
2012 52.7% 52.9%
2011 52.0% 52.5%
2010 51.3% 51.8%
2009 50.7% 51.4%
2008 50.0% 50.9%
2007 49.4% 50.4%
2006 48.8% 49.9%
2005 48.2% 49.4%
2004 47.6% 48.9%
2003 47.0% 48.4%
2002 46.4% 47.8%
2001 45.9% 47.3%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.5 percentage points from 58.8% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 54.4%, the figure has changed by +4.9 percentage points.
  • Among the 217 countries with data for 2025, Honduras has the 131st 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 Honduras
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