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Sri Lanka - Urban Population 1981

Name: Sri Lanka Urban Population 1981
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

21.46% −0.15% from 1980 Global rank: 38th

Sri Lanka's urban population was 21.46% in 1981, decreased +0.15% from 21.61% in 1980. This was the 38th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1981▾

Urban Population by Country - 1981
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	4.51%	3.9%
2nd	Rwanda	4.87%	1.1%
3rd	Uganda	6.92%	2.4%
4th	South Sudan	8.49%	0.0%
5th	Burkina Faso	9.06%	7.6%
6th	Malawi	9.34%	2.2%
7th	Solomon Islands	11.21%	3.6%
8th	Lesotho	11.24%	0.0%
9th	Lao PDR	12.65%	2.2%
10th	Cambodia	12.92%	1.5%
11th	Bhutan	13.05%	7.2%
12th	Papua New Guinea	13.10%	0.3%
13th	Yemen, Republic of	13.16%	6.4%
14th	Mozambique	13.82%	5.2%
15th	Niger	13.95%	1.9%
16th	Mali	14.35%	2.1%
17th	Eritrea	14.55%	1.2%
18th	Vanuatu	15.19%	2.8%
19th	Tanzania	15.26%	3.3%
20th	Bangladesh	15.39%	4.9%
21st	Nepal	15.48%	6.0%
22nd	Botswana	15.81%	5.8%
23rd	Afghanistan	15.90%	1.4%
24th	Kenya	16.16%	2.1%
25th	Timor-Leste	17.12%	2.9%
26th	Thailand	17.28%	1.2%
27th	Guinea-Bissau	18.20%	5.4%
28th	Liechtenstein	18.25%	-0.2%
29th	Madagascar	18.85%	2.0%
30th	Viet Nam	19.14%	-0.1%
31st	Chad	19.40%	1.6%
32nd	Eswatini	19.75%	5.1%
33rd	Sudan	20.04%	1.1%
34th	China	20.16%	3.9%
35th	Haiti	20.59%	0.1%
36th	Tonga	20.74%	0.6%
37th	Samoa	21.21%	0.0%
38th	Sri Lanka	21.46%	-0.7%
39th	Indonesia	22.84%	3.1%
40th	Zimbabwe	22.88%	2.5%
41st	Maldives	23.63%	3.5%
42nd	British Virgin Islands	23.63%	4.7%
43rd	Comoros	23.67%	1.9%
44th	India	23.79%	1.2%
45th	Cabo Verde	24.49%	4.4%
46th	Myanmar	24.64%	0.3%
47th	Togo	25.06%	1.4%
48th	Guinea	25.27%	2.1%
49th	Angola	25.43%	5.4%
50th	Namibia	25.71%	0.3%
51st	Equatorial Guinea	26.28%	0.1%
52nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	26.47%	0.0%
53rd	St. Lucia	26.74%	1.4%
54th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	27.07%	0.8%
55th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	27.16%	1.2%
56th	Benin	28.12%	3.0%
57th	Nigeria	28.18%	2.8%
58th	Pakistan	28.39%	1.1%
59th	Gambia, The	28.72%	5.5%
60th	Guyana	29.50%	0.0%
61st	Sierra Leone	30.63%	1.4%
62nd	Mauritania	30.67%	7.0%
63rd	Tuvalu	31.08%	3.0%
64th	Ghana	31.24%	0.7%
65th	Faroe Islands	31.60%	0.1%
66th	Channel Islands	31.90%	-0.2%
67th	Kosovo	32.63%	1.6%
68th	Kiribati	32.68%	0.8%
69th	Guatemala	32.71%	-0.3%
70th	Grenada	32.98%	0.2%
71st	Cameroon	33.24%	2.8%
72nd	São Tomé and Principe	33.83%	1.5%
73rd	Albania	33.91%	0.5%
74th	Philippines	34.04%	0.6%
75th	Tajikistan	34.06%	-0.6%
76th	Antigua and Barbuda	34.67%	0.4%
77th	Malaysia	35.09%	2.5%
78th	Honduras	35.63%	1.6%
79th	St. Kitts and Nevis	35.88%	-0.1%
80th	Central African Republic	36.13%	0.6%
81st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.32%	1.4%
82nd	Senegal	36.34%	1.0%
83rd	Liberia	36.82%	2.7%
84th	Côte d'Ivoire	37.47%	0.8%
85th	Fiji	37.87%	0.3%
86th	Kyrgyz Republic	38.28%	0.0%
87th	Zambia	39.89%	0.0%
88th	Moldova	40.60%	1.4%
89th	Türkiye	40.91%	2.6%
90th	Uzbekistan	41.17%	0.2%
91st	Virgin Islands (US)	41.65%	5.3%
92nd	Morocco	41.84%	1.8%
93rd	Portugal	41.90%	1.6%
94th	Mauritius	41.91%	-0.5%
95th	Paraguay	42.06%	1.6%
96th	Costa Rica	43.20%	0.7%
97th	El Salvador	43.35%	1.3%
98th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	43.56%	0.1%
99th	Algeria	43.73%	2.2%
100th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	43.91%	0.0%
101st	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	45.16%	2.4%
102nd	Montenegro	45.53%	1.3%
103rd	Serbia	46.72%	1.1%
104th	Turkmenistan	46.96%	-0.4%
105th	Syrian Arab Republic	47.00%	0.6%
106th	Jamaica	47.52%	0.7%
107th	Dominica	47.68%	2.4%
108th	Ecuador	47.95%	2.1%
109th	Croatia	47.97%	1.4%
110th	Congo, Republic of	48.22%	3.1%
111th	South Africa	48.50%	0.2%
112th	Slovenia	49.02%	1.1%
113th	Seychelles	49.39%	0.0%
114th	Panama	50.06%	0.6%
115th	Romania	50.29%	1.3%
116th	Isle of Man	50.39%	-0.1%
117th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	50.66%	1.5%
118th	Belize	51.29%	-0.7%
119th	Nicaragua	51.41%	0.6%
120th	Tunisia	51.83%	0.5%
121st	Dominican Republic	52.13%	1.3%
122nd	Slovak Republic	52.44%	1.3%
123rd	Georgia	52.63%	0.6%
124th	Trinidad and Tobago	52.65%	0.6%
125th	Mongolia	53.03%	1.5%
126th	Azerbaijan	53.19%	0.1%
127th	North Macedonia	54.01%	0.9%
128th	Kazakhstan	54.57%	0.9%
129th	Austria	55.15%	0.9%
130th	Ireland	55.65%	0.4%
131st	Turks and Caicos Islands	56.08%	1.8%
132nd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	56.97%	0.1%
133rd	Gabon	57.00%	3.2%
134th	Oman	57.33%	3.7%
135th	Belarus	57.63%	1.9%
136th	New Caledonia	58.06%	0.6%
137th	Hungary	58.21%	0.5%
138th	Korea	58.33%	3.0%
139th	Poland	58.71%	0.8%
140th	French Polynesia	58.99%	-0.1%
141st	Brunei Darussalam	59.39%	-0.3%
142nd	Marshall Islands	59.91%	0.4%
143rd	Jordan	61.09%	2.1%
144th	Switzerland	61.81%	0.9%
145th	Cyprus	62.38%	2.1%
146th	West Bank and Gaza	62.45%	0.6%
147th	Lithuania	62.46%	1.6%
148th	Ukraine	62.73%	0.9%
149th	Bulgaria	63.01%	1.4%
150th	Palau	63.16%	1.1%
151st	Finland	63.18%	0.1%
152nd	Barbados	63.48%	0.0%
153rd	American Samoa	64.76%	1.7%
154th	Colombia	65.20%	0.7%
155th	Peru	65.21%	0.8%
156th	Netherlands	65.74%	1.2%
157th	Suriname	66.08%	0.0%
158th	Aruba	66.10%	0.0%
159th	Armenia	66.47%	0.4%
160th	Iraq	66.87%	1.3%
161st	Italy	66.90%	0.1%
162nd	Mexico	66.91%	0.9%
163rd	Saudi Arabia	67.91%	2.2%
164th	Puerto Rico (US)	68.35%	1.9%
165th	European Union	68.36%	0.4%
166th	Brazil	68.37%	1.4%
167th	Latvia	68.82%	0.6%
168th	Cuba	68.92%	0.8%
169th	Greece	69.77%	0.4%
170th	Russian Federation	70.33%	0.7%
171st	Estonia	70.33%	0.5%
172nd	Norway	70.84%	0.3%
173rd	Libya	71.94%	2.0%
174th	Spain	71.98%	0.6%
175th	France	73.29%	0.1%
176th	Djibouti	73.80%	0.8%
177th	United States	73.81%	0.1%
178th	Bahamas, The	73.94%	1.1%
179th	Belgium	75.12%	0.5%
180th	Czechia	75.50%	1.1%
181st	Canada	75.74%	0.1%
182nd	Lebanon	75.81%	1.8%
183rd	Japan	76.25%	0.1%
184th	Greenland	76.77%	0.5%
185th	United Kingdom	78.60%	0.0%
186th	Germany	79.93%	0.0%
187th	Luxembourg	80.46%	0.2%
188th	United Arab Emirates	80.65%	-0.6%
189th	Bahrain	80.83%	0.5%
190th	Curaçao	81.46%	0.3%
191st	Chile	82.03%	0.4%
192nd	Sweden	83.09%	0.0%
193rd	Argentina	83.27%	0.5%
194th	New Zealand	83.50%	0.1%
195th	San Marino	83.56%	2.4%
196th	Denmark	83.95%	0.2%
197th	Qatar	84.05%	1.3%
198th	Uruguay	85.45%	0.6%
199th	Australia	85.71%	-0.1%
200th	Northern Mariana Islands	86.90%	0.2%
201st	Iceland	88.34%	0.3%
202nd	Guam	88.85%	0.1%
203rd	Israel	89.13%	0.3%
204th	Malta	89.63%	0.0%
205th	Hong Kong SAR, China	91.80%	0.3%
206th	Andorra	93.79%	0.9%
207th	Kuwait	95.64%	0.9%
208th	Macao SAR, China	98.60%	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 1981?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population in 1981 was 21.46%. This ranked 38th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's urban population change in 1981?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population decreased by 0.7% in 1981 compared to 1980.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1981?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1981 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Sri Lanka in 1981?▾

The urban population of Sri Lanka in 1981 was 21.46%. This ranked 38th globally.

How does 1981 compare to 1980 for Sri Lanka's urban population?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population went from 21.61% in 1980 to 21.46% in 1981, a 0.7% decrease.

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