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Sri Lanka - Urban Population 1982

Name: Sri Lanka Urban Population 1982
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

21.26% −0.20% from 1981 Global rank: 38th

Sri Lanka's urban population was 21.26% in 1982, decreased +0.20% from 21.46% in 1981. This was the 38th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1982▾

Urban Population by Country - 1982
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	4.69%	3.9%
2nd	Rwanda	4.91%	0.9%
3rd	Uganda	7.15%	3.3%
4th	South Sudan	8.49%	0.0%
5th	Malawi	9.54%	2.1%
6th	Burkina Faso	9.72%	7.2%
7th	Lesotho	11.25%	0.0%
8th	Solomon Islands	11.59%	3.3%
9th	Lao PDR	12.93%	2.2%
10th	Cambodia	13.17%	2.0%
11th	Papua New Guinea	13.26%	1.2%
12th	Bhutan	13.86%	6.2%
13th	Yemen, Republic of	13.95%	6.0%
14th	Niger	14.20%	1.8%
15th	Mozambique	14.62%	5.8%
16th	Mali	14.64%	2.0%
17th	Eritrea	14.74%	1.3%
18th	Vanuatu	15.61%	2.8%
19th	Tanzania	15.72%	3.0%
20th	Bangladesh	16.01%	4.0%
21st	Afghanistan	16.11%	1.3%
22nd	Nepal	16.11%	4.1%
23rd	Kenya	16.48%	1.9%
24th	Botswana	17.23%	9.0%
25th	Thailand	17.44%	0.9%
26th	Timor-Leste	17.60%	2.8%
27th	Liechtenstein	18.18%	-0.4%
28th	Viet Nam	19.11%	-0.1%
29th	Madagascar	19.21%	1.9%
30th	Guinea-Bissau	19.42%	6.7%
31st	Chad	19.69%	1.5%
32nd	Sudan	20.31%	1.4%
33rd	China	20.57%	2.0%
34th	Haiti	20.63%	0.2%
35th	Eswatini	20.64%	4.5%
36th	Tonga	20.88%	0.7%
37th	Samoa	21.18%	-0.2%
38th	Sri Lanka	21.26%	-0.9%
39th	Zimbabwe	23.46%	2.5%
40th	Indonesia	23.57%	3.2%
41st	India	24.03%	1.0%
42nd	Comoros	24.20%	2.2%
43rd	Maldives	24.34%	3.0%
44th	Myanmar	24.73%	0.4%
45th	British Virgin Islands	25.04%	6.0%
46th	Togo	25.43%	1.5%
47th	Guinea	25.73%	1.8%
48th	Namibia	25.79%	0.3%
49th	Cabo Verde	26.09%	6.5%
50th	Equatorial Guinea	26.30%	0.1%
51st	Micronesia, Federated States of	26.45%	-0.1%
52nd	Angola	26.77%	5.3%
53rd	St. Lucia	27.13%	1.5%
54th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	27.28%	0.8%
55th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	27.47%	1.2%
56th	Pakistan	28.68%	1.0%
57th	Benin	28.94%	2.9%
58th	Nigeria	28.95%	2.7%
59th	Guyana	29.51%	0.0%
60th	Gambia, The	29.99%	4.4%
61st	Sierra Leone	31.03%	1.3%
62nd	Ghana	31.49%	0.8%
63rd	Faroe Islands	31.77%	0.5%
64th	Tuvalu	31.86%	2.5%
65th	Channel Islands	31.88%	-0.1%
66th	Mauritania	32.66%	6.5%
67th	Guatemala	32.74%	0.1%
68th	Kiribati	32.89%	0.6%
69th	Grenada	33.03%	0.2%
70th	Kosovo	33.16%	1.6%
71st	Tajikistan	33.88%	-0.5%
72nd	Albania	34.08%	0.5%
73rd	Cameroon	34.10%	2.6%
74th	Philippines	34.24%	0.6%
75th	São Tomé and Principe	34.47%	1.9%
76th	Antigua and Barbuda	34.80%	0.4%
77th	St. Kitts and Nevis	35.82%	-0.2%
78th	Malaysia	36.19%	3.1%
79th	Honduras	36.20%	1.6%
80th	Central African Republic	36.31%	0.5%
81st	Senegal	36.69%	1.0%
82nd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.75%	1.2%
83rd	Liberia	37.70%	2.4%
84th	Côte d'Ivoire	37.73%	0.7%
85th	Fiji	37.99%	0.3%
86th	Kyrgyz Republic	38.27%	0.0%
87th	Zambia	39.87%	0.0%
88th	Moldova	41.17%	1.4%
89th	Uzbekistan	41.18%	0.0%
90th	Mauritius	41.76%	-0.4%
91st	Türkiye	42.04%	2.8%
92nd	Portugal	42.56%	1.6%
93rd	Morocco	42.63%	1.9%
94th	Paraguay	42.73%	1.6%
95th	Costa Rica	43.54%	0.8%
96th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	43.60%	0.1%
97th	El Salvador	43.92%	1.3%
98th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	43.93%	0.0%
99th	Virgin Islands (US)	44.11%	5.9%
100th	Algeria	44.75%	2.3%
101st	Montenegro	45.99%	1.0%
102nd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	46.31%	2.6%
103rd	Turkmenistan	46.71%	-0.5%
104th	Serbia	47.18%	1.0%
105th	Syrian Arab Republic	47.26%	0.5%
106th	Jamaica	47.82%	0.6%
107th	South Africa	48.63%	0.3%
108th	Croatia	48.68%	1.5%
109th	Ecuador	48.87%	1.9%
110th	Dominica	49.11%	3.0%
111th	Seychelles	49.37%	0.0%
112th	Slovenia	49.44%	0.9%
113th	Congo, Republic of	49.57%	2.8%
114th	Panama	50.38%	0.6%
115th	Isle of Man	50.46%	0.1%
116th	Belize	50.84%	-0.9%
117th	Romania	50.90%	1.2%
118th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	51.39%	1.4%
119th	Nicaragua	51.68%	0.5%
120th	Tunisia	52.14%	0.6%
121st	Dominican Republic	52.64%	1.0%
122nd	Trinidad and Tobago	52.98%	0.6%
123rd	Georgia	52.99%	0.7%
124th	Slovak Republic	53.10%	1.3%
125th	Azerbaijan	53.19%	0.0%
126th	Mongolia	53.80%	1.5%
127th	North Macedonia	54.45%	0.8%
128th	Kazakhstan	55.07%	0.9%
129th	Austria	55.80%	1.2%
130th	Ireland	55.84%	0.3%
131st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	57.08%	0.2%
132nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	57.60%	2.7%
133rd	New Caledonia	58.35%	0.5%
134th	Hungary	58.51%	0.5%
135th	Gabon	58.55%	2.7%
136th	Belarus	58.67%	1.8%
137th	French Polynesia	58.92%	-0.1%
138th	Poland	59.19%	0.8%
139th	Oman	59.28%	3.4%
140th	Brunei Darussalam	59.38%	0.0%
141st	Korea	59.95%	2.8%
142nd	Marshall Islands	60.60%	1.2%
143rd	Switzerland	62.44%	1.0%
144th	Jordan	62.51%	2.3%
145th	West Bank and Gaza	62.80%	0.6%
146th	Finland	63.24%	0.1%
147th	Ukraine	63.25%	0.8%
148th	Lithuania	63.33%	1.4%
149th	Cyprus	63.34%	1.5%
150th	Barbados	63.50%	0.0%
151st	Bulgaria	63.89%	1.4%
152nd	Palau	64.25%	1.7%
153rd	Colombia	65.67%	0.7%
154th	Peru	65.69%	0.7%
155th	American Samoa	65.88%	1.7%
156th	Aruba	66.07%	0.0%
157th	Suriname	66.10%	0.0%
158th	Netherlands	66.46%	1.1%
159th	Armenia	66.76%	0.4%
160th	Italy	66.90%	0.0%
161st	Mexico	67.49%	0.9%
162nd	Iraq	67.70%	1.2%
163rd	European Union	68.59%	0.3%
164th	Latvia	69.23%	0.6%
165th	Brazil	69.26%	1.3%
166th	Saudi Arabia	69.32%	2.1%
167th	Cuba	69.52%	0.9%
168th	Puerto Rico (US)	69.79%	2.1%
169th	Greece	70.02%	0.4%
170th	Estonia	70.64%	0.4%
171st	Russian Federation	70.85%	0.7%
172nd	Norway	70.99%	0.2%
173rd	Spain	72.39%	0.6%
174th	Libya	73.20%	1.8%
175th	France	73.35%	0.1%
176th	United States	73.90%	0.1%
177th	Djibouti	74.23%	0.6%
178th	Bahamas, The	74.85%	1.2%
179th	Czechia	75.49%	0.0%
180th	Belgium	75.51%	0.5%
181st	Canada	75.85%	0.2%
182nd	Japan	76.35%	0.1%
183rd	Lebanon	77.06%	1.6%
184th	Greenland	77.13%	0.5%
185th	United Kingdom	78.58%	0.0%
186th	Germany	79.94%	0.0%
187th	United Arab Emirates	80.30%	-0.4%
188th	Luxembourg	80.54%	0.1%
189th	Bahrain	81.38%	0.7%
190th	Curaçao	81.71%	0.3%
191st	Chile	82.27%	0.3%
192nd	Sweden	83.09%	0.0%
193rd	New Zealand	83.57%	0.1%
194th	Argentina	83.69%	0.5%
195th	Denmark	84.11%	0.2%
196th	San Marino	85.40%	2.2%
197th	Qatar	85.40%	1.6%
198th	Australia	85.63%	-0.1%
199th	Uruguay	85.93%	0.6%
200th	Northern Mariana Islands	87.20%	0.3%
201st	Iceland	88.61%	0.3%
202nd	Guam	88.96%	0.1%
203rd	Israel	89.38%	0.3%
204th	Malta	89.67%	0.0%
205th	Hong Kong SAR, China	92.05%	0.3%
206th	Andorra	94.47%	0.7%
207th	Kuwait	96.50%	0.9%
208th	Macao SAR, China	98.72%	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 1982?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population in 1982 was 21.26%. This ranked 38th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's urban population change in 1982?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population decreased by 0.9% in 1982 compared to 1981.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1982?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1982 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Sri Lanka in 1982?▾

The urban population of Sri Lanka in 1982 was 21.26%. This ranked 38th globally.

How does 1982 compare to 1981 for Sri Lanka's urban population?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population went from 21.46% in 1981 to 21.26% in 1982, a 0.9% decrease.

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