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Sri Lanka - Urban Population 1980

Name: Sri Lanka Urban Population 1980
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

21.61% −0.14% from 1979 Global rank: 38th

Sri Lanka's urban population was 21.61% in 1980, decreased +0.14% from 21.75% in 1979. This was the 38th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1980▾

Urban Population by Country - 1980
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	4.34%	3.9%
2nd	Rwanda	4.82%	1.3%
3rd	Uganda	6.76%	1.6%
4th	Burkina Faso	8.42%	7.7%
5th	South Sudan	8.49%	0.0%
6th	Malawi	9.13%	2.4%
7th	Solomon Islands	10.83%	3.7%
8th	Lesotho	11.24%	0.1%
9th	Bhutan	12.17%	8.9%
10th	Yemen, Republic of	12.37%	6.8%
11th	Lao PDR	12.38%	2.2%
12th	Cambodia	12.73%	38.0%
13th	Papua New Guinea	13.06%	-0.1%
14th	Mozambique	13.13%	5.0%
15th	Niger	13.69%	2.1%
16th	Mali	14.05%	2.2%
17th	Eritrea	14.37%	1.2%
18th	Nepal	14.61%	8.7%
19th	Bangladesh	14.68%	6.7%
20th	Tanzania	14.77%	3.7%
21st	Vanuatu	14.77%	2.8%
22nd	Botswana	14.94%	5.2%
23rd	Afghanistan	15.68%	1.6%
24th	Kenya	15.84%	2.3%
25th	Timor-Leste	16.64%	3.0%
26th	Thailand	17.08%	1.5%
27th	Guinea-Bissau	17.26%	3.5%
28th	Liechtenstein	18.28%	-0.1%
29th	Madagascar	18.49%	2.1%
30th	Eswatini	18.79%	5.5%
31st	Chad	19.08%	1.8%
32nd	Viet Nam	19.16%	-0.2%
33rd	China	19.39%	2.3%
34th	Sudan	19.82%	0.9%
35th	Haiti	20.56%	0.1%
36th	Tonga	20.62%	0.5%
37th	Samoa	21.21%	0.1%
38th	Sri Lanka	21.61%	-0.7%
39th	Indonesia	22.15%	3.2%
40th	Zimbabwe	22.33%	2.4%
41st	British Virgin Islands	22.57%	3.8%
42nd	Maldives	22.82%	3.9%
43rd	Comoros	23.22%	1.7%
44th	Cabo Verde	23.46%	2.6%
45th	India	23.51%	1.5%
46th	Angola	24.13%	5.5%
47th	Myanmar	24.56%	0.3%
48th	Togo	24.71%	1.3%
49th	Guinea	24.74%	2.5%
50th	Namibia	25.63%	0.3%
51st	Equatorial Guinea	26.27%	0.0%
52nd	St. Lucia	26.37%	1.4%
53rd	Micronesia, Federated States of	26.47%	0.1%
54th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	26.85%	1.2%
55th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	26.85%	0.8%
56th	Gambia, The	27.22%	6.5%
57th	Benin	27.30%	3.0%
58th	Nigeria	27.41%	2.8%
59th	Pakistan	28.09%	1.2%
60th	Mauritania	28.66%	7.3%
61st	Guyana	29.50%	0.0%
62nd	Tuvalu	30.16%	3.9%
63rd	Sierra Leone	30.21%	1.5%
64th	Ghana	31.03%	0.6%
65th	Faroe Islands	31.57%	0.3%
66th	Channel Islands	31.97%	-0.5%
67th	Kosovo	32.12%	1.6%
68th	Cameroon	32.34%	3.0%
69th	Kiribati	32.44%	1.0%
70th	Guatemala	32.80%	-1.1%
71st	Grenada	32.92%	0.2%
72nd	São Tomé and Principe	33.34%	1.2%
73rd	Albania	33.73%	0.6%
74th	Philippines	33.85%	0.6%
75th	Malaysia	34.24%	2.0%
76th	Tajikistan	34.25%	-0.6%
77th	Antigua and Barbuda	34.54%	0.4%
78th	Honduras	35.06%	1.7%
79th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	35.80%	1.8%
80th	Liberia	35.84%	3.0%
81st	St. Kitts and Nevis	35.90%	0.0%
82nd	Central African Republic	35.93%	0.6%
83rd	Senegal	35.96%	1.1%
84th	Côte d'Ivoire	37.18%	0.9%
85th	Fiji	37.75%	0.3%
86th	Kyrgyz Republic	38.28%	0.0%
87th	Virgin Islands (US)	39.56%	5.1%
88th	Türkiye	39.88%	2.4%
89th	Zambia	39.89%	0.5%
90th	Moldova	40.02%	1.4%
91st	Uzbekistan	41.07%	0.4%
92nd	Morocco	41.10%	1.8%
93rd	Portugal	41.25%	1.6%
94th	Paraguay	41.40%	1.6%
95th	Mauritius	42.14%	-0.7%
96th	Algeria	42.78%	2.0%
97th	El Salvador	42.81%	1.2%
98th	Costa Rica	42.89%	0.7%
99th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	43.53%	0.1%
100th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	43.89%	0.1%
101st	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	44.09%	2.2%
102nd	Montenegro	44.93%	1.9%
103rd	Serbia	46.23%	1.1%
104th	Dominica	46.54%	2.4%
105th	Syrian Arab Republic	46.73%	0.6%
106th	Congo, Republic of	46.76%	3.3%
107th	Ecuador	46.96%	2.2%
108th	Jamaica	47.16%	0.9%
109th	Turkmenistan	47.17%	-0.3%
110th	Croatia	47.31%	1.4%
111th	South Africa	48.40%	0.2%
112th	Slovenia	48.49%	1.6%
113th	Seychelles	49.40%	0.0%
114th	Romania	49.67%	1.3%
115th	Panama	49.77%	0.5%
116th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	49.94%	1.5%
117th	Isle of Man	50.44%	-0.4%
118th	Nicaragua	51.12%	0.6%
119th	Dominican Republic	51.48%	1.6%
120th	Tunisia	51.56%	0.5%
121st	Belize	51.66%	-0.6%
122nd	Slovak Republic	51.76%	1.6%
123rd	Mongolia	52.26%	1.4%
124th	Georgia	52.29%	0.6%
125th	Trinidad and Tobago	52.31%	0.9%
126th	Azerbaijan	53.15%	0.8%
127th	North Macedonia	53.54%	0.9%
128th	Kazakhstan	54.10%	0.8%
129th	Austria	54.67%	0.8%
130th	Turks and Caicos Islands	55.07%	1.2%
131st	Gabon	55.24%	3.7%
132nd	Oman	55.30%	3.9%
133rd	Ireland	55.44%	0.4%
134th	Belarus	56.57%	2.1%
135th	Korea	56.66%	3.2%
136th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	56.90%	0.1%
137th	New Caledonia	57.71%	0.7%
138th	Hungary	57.92%	0.5%
139th	Poland	58.23%	0.8%
140th	French Polynesia	59.06%	-0.1%
141st	Brunei Darussalam	59.54%	-0.6%
142nd	Marshall Islands	59.65%	-0.2%
143rd	Jordan	59.83%	1.8%
144th	Cyprus	61.07%	2.7%
145th	Switzerland	61.29%	0.7%
146th	Lithuania	61.45%	1.6%
147th	West Bank and Gaza	62.07%	0.7%
148th	Bulgaria	62.14%	1.1%
149th	Ukraine	62.18%	0.9%
150th	Palau	62.50%	0.6%
151st	Finland	63.09%	0.2%
152nd	Barbados	63.46%	0.6%
153rd	American Samoa	63.68%	1.6%
154th	Peru	64.70%	0.8%
155th	Colombia	64.73%	0.7%
156th	Netherlands	64.99%	0.3%
157th	Iraq	66.01%	1.3%
158th	Suriname	66.06%	0.0%
159th	Aruba	66.09%	0.2%
160th	Armenia	66.18%	0.4%
161st	Mexico	66.31%	0.9%
162nd	Saudi Arabia	66.43%	2.4%
163rd	Italy	66.85%	0.2%
164th	Puerto Rico (US)	67.07%	1.7%
165th	Brazil	67.42%	1.7%
166th	European Union	68.09%	0.5%
167th	Latvia	68.41%	0.6%
168th	Cuba	68.41%	1.0%
169th	Greece	69.48%	0.5%
170th	Russian Federation	69.85%	0.7%
171st	Estonia	69.99%	0.5%
172nd	Libya	70.54%	2.2%
173rd	Norway	70.65%	0.3%
174th	Spain	71.54%	0.6%
175th	Bahamas, The	73.11%	1.1%
176th	Djibouti	73.24%	0.9%
177th	France	73.25%	0.1%
178th	United States	73.75%	0.1%
179th	Lebanon	74.49%	1.9%
180th	Czechia	74.69%	6.5%
181st	Belgium	74.72%	0.5%
182nd	Canada	75.68%	0.1%
183rd	Japan	76.17%	0.1%
184th	Greenland	76.39%	0.7%
185th	United Kingdom	78.57%	0.1%
186th	Germany	79.92%	0.0%
187th	Luxembourg	80.30%	0.4%
188th	Bahrain	80.43%	0.5%
189th	United Arab Emirates	81.10%	-0.8%
190th	Curaçao	81.22%	0.3%
191st	San Marino	81.58%	2.6%
192nd	Chile	81.68%	0.5%
193rd	Argentina	82.86%	0.5%
194th	Qatar	83.00%	0.9%
195th	Sweden	83.09%	0.0%
196th	New Zealand	83.40%	0.1%
197th	Denmark	83.77%	0.3%
198th	Uruguay	84.98%	0.5%
199th	Australia	85.78%	-0.1%
200th	Northern Mariana Islands	86.73%	0.1%
201st	Iceland	88.09%	0.2%
202nd	Guam	88.80%	0.0%
203rd	Israel	88.83%	0.4%
204th	Malta	89.59%	0.0%
205th	Hong Kong SAR, China	91.48%	0.4%
206th	Andorra	92.93%	1.1%
207th	Kuwait	94.77%	0.9%
208th	Macao SAR, China	98.48%	0.1%
209th	Bermuda	100.00%	0.0%
210th	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
211th	Gibraltar	100.00%	0.0%
212th	St. Martin (French part)	100.00%	0.0%
213th	Monaco	100.00%	0.0%
214th	Nauru	100.00%	0.0%
215th	Singapore	100.00%	0.0%
216th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	100.00%	0.0%

FAQ

What was Sri Lanka's urban population in 1980?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population in 1980 was 21.61%. This ranked 38th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's urban population change in 1980?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population decreased by 0.7% in 1980 compared to 1979.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1980?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1980 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Sri Lanka in 1980?▾

The urban population of Sri Lanka in 1980 was 21.61%. This ranked 38th globally.

How does 1980 compare to 1979 for Sri Lanka's urban population?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population went from 21.75% in 1979 to 21.61% in 1980, a 0.7% decrease.

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