| Country | Largest city as a percentage of urban population | Largest city population | # of cities over 100,000 | UN method | Urban primacy | Median normalised |
| Liberia | 51.4 | 1,010,970 | 1 | 24.6 | 13.80 | 100.0 |
| Djibouti | 54.2 | 353,801 | 1 | 15.6 | 9.14 | 83.1 |
| Mauritania | 55.1 | 846,871 | 2 | 11.7 | 7.70 | 77.9 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 45.5 | 203,000 | 1 | 11.3 | 6.71 | 74.3 |
| Burundi | 47.7 | 497,166 | 1 | 11.9 | 5.79 | 71.0 |
| Mali | 38.3 | 1,930,000 | 9 | 12.5 | 5.28 | 69.2 |
| Eritrea | 57.2 | 435,383 | 1 | 7.8 | 4.99 | 68.1 |
| Rwanda | 53.3 | 1,135,428 | 3 | 7.6 | 4.82 | 67.5 |
| Guinea | 41.7 | 1,650,000 | 3 | 6.9 | 3.95 | 64.3 |
| Sao Tome & Principe | 45.1 | 51,728 | 0 | 7.8 | 3.63 | 63.1 |
| Senegal | 51.6 | 2,930,000 | 9 | 4.7 | 3.37 | 62.2 |
| Seychelles | 56.4 | 26,450 | 0 | 5.6 | 3.17 | 61.5 |
| Uganda | 30.3 | 1,659,600 | 5 | 9.2 | 3.01 | 60.9 |
| Togo | 34.0 | 837,437 | 1 | 8.8 | 3.00 | 60.9 |
| Chad | 36.1 | 951,418 | 3 | 6.9 | 2.93 | 60.6 |
| Cote d’Ivoire | 47.9 | 4,765,000 | >10 | 5.4 | 2.74 | 59.9 |
| Madagascar | 30.2 | 2,128,900 | 8 | 8.2 | 2.64 | 59.6 |
| Angola | 44.2 | 5,278,800 | 7 | 4.3 | 2.56 | 59.3 |
| Tanzania | 35.2 | 4,364,541 | >10 | 6.2 | 2.54 | 59.2 |
| Egypt | 51.8 | 17,921,542 | >10 | 4.1 | 2.52 | 59.1 |
| Gabon | 40.1 | 550,000 | 2 | 5.3 | 2.40 | 58.7 |
| Niger | 44.2 | 1,302,910 | 5 | 4.7 | 2.39 | 58.7 |
| Gambia | 38.5 | 382,096 | 2 | 4.0 | 2.33 | 58.4 |
| Ethiopia | 20.4 | 3,103,700 | >10 | 10.8 | 2.28 | 58.3 |
| Central African Republic | 35.9 | 622,771 | 2 | 5.0 | 2.22 | 58.1 |
| Dem. Rep. of Congo | 38.4 | 8,415,000 | >10 | 5.6 | 2.21 | 58.0 |
| Republic of Congo | 58.0 | 1,560,000 | 2 | 1.9 | 2.02 | 57.3 |
| Namibia | 38.3 | 325,858 | 1 | 5.1 | 1.99 | 49.5 |
| Sierra Leone | 41.1 | 945,423 | 4 | 4.1 | 1.82 | 45.3 |
| Burkina Faso | 34.8 | 1,475,223 | 2 | 3.0 | 1.78 | 44.3 |
| Kenya | 31.1 | 3,133,518 | >10 | 3.4 | 1.62 | 40.4 |
| Somalia | 41.5 | 1,554,000 | >7 | 2.3 | 1.39 | 34.6 |
| Cape Verde | 43.6 | 133,863 | 1 | 1.9 | 1.33 | 33.2 |
| Sudan | 38.3 | 4,632,000 | >10 | 2.5 | 1.24 | 30.9 |
| Zambia | 32.7 | 1,747,152 | 9 | 3.5 | 1.20 | 29.9 |
| South Sudan | 26.7 | 500,000 | 5 | 4.2 | 1.15 | 28.6 |
| Lesotho | 31.9 | 178,345 | 1 | 2.9 | 1.04 | 25.8 |
| Swaziland | 38.3 | 98,874 | 0 | 1.3 | 0.89 | 22.1 |
| Comoros | 30.5 | 60,000 | 0 | 2.9 | 0.88 | 21.9 |
| Zimbabwe | 28.8 | 1,485,231 | 7 | 2.3 | 0.85 | 21.1 |
| Malawi | 40.3 | 978,800 | 5 | 1.2 | 0.75 | 18.6 |
| Benin | 19.6 | 862,445 | 5 | 3.0 | 0.70 | 17.4 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 35.3 | 100,000 | 1 | 1.7 | 0.59 | 14.7 |
| Libya | 23.4 | 1,110,000 | >10 | 1.9 | 0.57 | 14.3 |
| South Africa | 23.8 | 7,613,297 | >10 | 2.0 | 0.50 | 12.6 |
| Botswana | 18.6 | 227,333 | 2 | 2.3 | 0.50 | 12.6 |
| Nigeria | 13.8 | 11,223,000 | >10 | 3.3 | 0.49 | 12.2 |
| Morocco | 16.9 | 3,083,000 | >10 | 2.4 | 0.41 | 10.3 |
| Algeria | 10.4 | 2,851,000 | >10 | 3.7 | 0.39 | 9.8 |
| Cameroon | 21.3 | 2,350,000 | >10 | 1.0 | 0.39 | 9.6 |
| Tunisia | 10.3 | 728,453 | 7 | 2.7 | 0.34 | 8.5 |
| Mauritius | 25.6 | 137,608 | 3 | 1.3 | 0.34 | 8.4 |
| Ghana | 16.1 | 2,070,463 | >10 | 1.0 | 0.28 | 6.9 |
| Mozambique | 16.0 | 1,225,900 | >10 | 1.4 | 0.26 | 6.5 |