iloubnan.info : Lebanon ranks 5th in MENA in urbanization level
iLoubnan.info writes
The World Bank’s World Development Report 2009 ranked Lebanon in 28th place among 212 countries worldwide and 5th among 17 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region in terms of its urban population as a percentage of total population for 2005. Lebanon also ranked in 6th place among the 33 Upper Middle Income Countries (UMICs) included in the report. Globally, Lebanon had higher urbanization rates than New Zealand, Djibouti and Denmark and lower urbanization rates than the United Kingdom, Australia and Chile. Regionally, it had urbanization rates higher than Libya, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and lower than Bahrain, Kuwait and Israel. Lebanon had a higher urbanization rate than Brazil, Gabon and Dominica, but lower than Venezuela, Argentina and Chile among UMICs.
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