Urban population in East Africa 2018, by country
As of 2018, more than 60 million people were living in urban areas in East Africa. Ethiopia was the country with the largest urban residents in the region, in terms of absolute numbers, roughly 23 million. In its turn, in Djibouti, 760 thousand people lived in urban areas by the same period. Even though, the country was the most urbanized in East Africa, with a share of 78 percent of urban population, in 2018.
