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Sri Lanka - Urban Population 1984

Name: Sri Lanka Urban Population 1984
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

20.68% −0.31% from 1983 Global rank: 30th

Sri Lanka's urban population was 20.68% in 1984, decreased +0.31% from 21.00% in 1983. This was the 30th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1984▾

Urban Population by Country - 1984
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Rwanda	4.98%	0.7%
2nd	Burundi	5.07%	3.9%
3rd	Uganda	7.74%	4.3%
4th	South Sudan	8.73%	2.5%
5th	Malawi	9.93%	2.1%
6th	Burkina Faso	10.95%	5.7%
7th	Lesotho	11.26%	0.1%
8th	Solomon Islands	12.29%	2.9%
9th	Lao PDR	13.50%	2.2%
10th	Cambodia	13.78%	2.2%
11th	Papua New Guinea	13.82%	2.3%
12th	Niger	14.63%	1.4%
13th	Eritrea	15.16%	1.5%
14th	Mali	15.20%	1.9%
15th	Bhutan	15.47%	5.5%
16th	Yemen, Republic of	15.51%	5.2%
17th	Afghanistan	16.46%	1.0%
18th	Vanuatu	16.47%	2.7%
19th	Mozambique	16.52%	6.4%
20th	Tanzania	16.59%	2.6%
21st	Kenya	17.04%	1.6%
22nd	Nepal	17.11%	2.8%
23rd	Bangladesh	17.13%	3.3%
24th	Thailand	17.70%	0.7%
25th	Liechtenstein	17.92%	-0.8%
26th	Timor-Leste	18.53%	2.6%
27th	Viet Nam	19.08%	-0.1%
28th	Madagascar	19.92%	1.8%
29th	Chad	20.20%	1.2%
30th	Sri Lanka	20.68%	-1.5%
31st	Samoa	20.82%	-1.0%
32nd	Haiti	20.93%	1.0%
33rd	Tonga	21.19%	0.8%
34th	Sudan	21.45%	3.6%
35th	Eswatini	22.07%	3.0%
36th	Guinea-Bissau	22.48%	7.7%
37th	Botswana	22.62%	15.6%
38th	China	23.01%	6.4%
39th	India	24.46%	0.9%
40th	Zimbabwe	24.83%	3.1%
41st	Myanmar	24.95%	0.5%
42nd	Indonesia	25.15%	3.3%
43rd	Maldives	25.31%	1.6%
44th	Comoros	25.40%	2.5%
45th	Namibia	25.98%	0.4%
46th	Togo	26.20%	1.5%
47th	Micronesia, Federated States of	26.40%	-0.1%
48th	Guinea	26.47%	1.3%
49th	Equatorial Guinea	26.62%	1.1%
50th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	27.72%	0.8%
51st	St. Lucia	27.92%	1.4%
52nd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	28.10%	1.1%
53rd	British Virgin Islands	28.56%	6.9%
54th	Pakistan	29.23%	0.9%
55th	Angola	29.52%	4.9%
56th	Guyana	29.52%	0.0%
57th	Cabo Verde	30.49%	8.4%
58th	Nigeria	30.50%	2.6%
59th	Benin	30.58%	2.7%
60th	Sierra Leone	31.77%	1.1%
61st	Gambia, The	31.77%	2.5%
62nd	Channel Islands	31.85%	0.0%
63rd	Ghana	32.11%	1.0%
64th	Faroe Islands	32.31%	0.8%
65th	Guatemala	32.87%	0.2%
66th	Grenada	33.12%	0.1%
67th	Kiribati	33.28%	0.6%
68th	Tuvalu	33.35%	2.3%
69th	Tajikistan	33.52%	-0.5%
70th	Kosovo	34.29%	1.7%
71st	Albania	34.42%	0.5%
72nd	Philippines	34.64%	0.6%
73rd	Antigua and Barbuda	35.04%	0.3%
74th	St. Kitts and Nevis	35.61%	-0.3%
75th	Cameroon	35.74%	2.3%
76th	Mauritania	36.25%	4.9%
77th	São Tomé and Principe	36.33%	2.9%
78th	Central African Republic	36.61%	0.4%
79th	Honduras	37.32%	1.5%
80th	Senegal	37.37%	0.9%
81st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	37.50%	1.0%
82nd	Côte d'Ivoire	38.18%	0.6%
83rd	Kyrgyz Republic	38.25%	0.0%
84th	Fiji	38.27%	0.4%
85th	Malaysia	38.99%	4.0%
86th	Liberia	39.09%	1.6%
87th	Zambia	39.79%	-0.1%
88th	Uzbekistan	40.98%	-0.5%
89th	Mauritius	41.82%	0.3%
90th	Moldova	42.76%	1.9%
91st	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	43.66%	0.1%
92nd	Portugal	43.86%	1.5%
93rd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	43.95%	0.0%
94th	Morocco	43.99%	1.6%
95th	Paraguay	44.28%	1.9%
96th	Costa Rica	44.37%	1.0%
97th	Türkiye	44.42%	2.8%
98th	El Salvador	45.11%	1.4%
99th	Turkmenistan	46.17%	-0.6%
100th	Montenegro	46.69%	0.7%
101st	Algeria	46.88%	2.3%
102nd	Syrian Arab Republic	47.70%	0.4%
103rd	Serbia	48.01%	0.9%
104th	Jamaica	48.32%	0.5%
105th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	48.79%	2.7%
106th	South Africa	48.98%	0.4%
107th	Seychelles	49.34%	0.0%
108th	Belize	49.81%	-1.1%
109th	Virgin Islands (US)	49.87%	6.4%
110th	Slovenia	50.21%	0.7%
111th	Croatia	50.23%	1.6%
112th	Ecuador	50.56%	1.7%
113th	Isle of Man	50.77%	0.3%
114th	Panama	51.09%	0.7%
115th	Congo, Republic of	51.64%	1.8%
116th	Romania	52.03%	1.1%
117th	Nicaragua	52.19%	0.5%
118th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	52.84%	1.4%
119th	Tunisia	52.97%	0.9%
120th	Dominica	53.04%	4.1%
121st	Azerbaijan	53.12%	-0.1%
122nd	Dominican Republic	53.40%	0.7%
123rd	Trinidad and Tobago	53.58%	0.6%
124th	Georgia	53.65%	0.6%
125th	Slovak Republic	54.38%	1.2%
126th	North Macedonia	55.23%	0.7%
127th	Mongolia	55.27%	1.3%
128th	Kazakhstan	56.04%	0.8%
129th	Ireland	56.15%	0.3%
130th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	57.36%	0.3%
131st	Austria	57.74%	1.9%
132nd	French Polynesia	58.76%	-0.1%
133rd	New Caledonia	58.77%	0.3%
134th	Hungary	59.11%	0.5%
135th	Poland	60.05%	0.7%
136th	Brunei Darussalam	60.05%	0.8%
137th	Belarus	60.80%	1.8%
138th	Gabon	61.23%	2.2%
139th	Turks and Caicos Islands	61.68%	3.7%
140th	Marshall Islands	62.77%	1.9%
141st	Oman	62.87%	2.9%
142nd	Korea	63.15%	2.6%
143rd	Finland	63.36%	0.1%
144th	West Bank and Gaza	63.44%	0.5%
145th	Barbados	63.52%	0.0%
146th	Switzerland	63.96%	1.3%
147th	Ukraine	64.43%	1.0%
148th	Cyprus	64.65%	1.0%
149th	Lithuania	64.80%	1.1%
150th	Bulgaria	65.61%	1.5%
151st	Jordan	65.70%	2.6%
152nd	Aruba	65.94%	-0.1%
153rd	Suriname	66.16%	0.0%
154th	Peru	66.59%	0.7%
155th	Colombia	66.60%	0.7%
156th	Palau	66.80%	1.9%
157th	Italy	66.86%	0.0%
158th	Armenia	67.26%	0.4%
159th	Netherlands	67.36%	0.7%
160th	American Samoa	68.23%	1.8%
161st	Mexico	68.60%	0.8%
162nd	European Union	69.03%	0.3%
163rd	Iraq	69.13%	1.0%
164th	Latvia	69.97%	0.5%
165th	Greece	70.47%	0.3%
166th	Cuba	70.82%	0.8%
167th	Brazil	70.86%	1.1%
168th	Estonia	70.97%	0.2%
169th	Norway	71.20%	0.1%
170th	Russian Federation	71.64%	0.5%
171st	Saudi Arabia	71.85%	1.7%
172nd	Puerto Rico (US)	73.04%	2.3%
173rd	Spain	73.14%	0.5%
174th	France	73.49%	0.1%
175th	United States	74.15%	0.2%
176th	Djibouti	74.85%	0.4%
177th	Libya	75.32%	1.3%
178th	Czechia	75.45%	0.0%
179th	Canada	76.22%	0.2%
180th	Belgium	76.29%	0.5%
181st	Japan	76.57%	0.2%
182nd	Bahamas, The	76.74%	1.2%
183rd	Greenland	78.00%	0.6%
184th	United Kingdom	78.48%	-0.1%
185th	Lebanon	79.30%	1.4%
186th	United Arab Emirates	79.73%	-0.3%
187th	Germany	79.97%	0.0%
188th	Luxembourg	80.65%	0.1%
189th	Curaçao	82.25%	0.3%
190th	Chile	82.58%	0.2%
191st	Bahrain	83.03%	1.1%
192nd	Sweden	83.10%	0.0%
193rd	New Zealand	83.69%	0.1%
194th	Denmark	84.42%	0.2%
195th	Argentina	84.56%	0.5%
196th	Australia	85.45%	-0.1%
197th	Uruguay	86.82%	0.5%
198th	Northern Mariana Islands	87.99%	0.5%
199th	Qatar	88.33%	1.7%
200th	San Marino	88.43%	1.6%
201st	Iceland	89.12%	0.3%
202nd	Guam	89.31%	0.2%
203rd	Israel	89.73%	0.2%
204th	Malta	89.76%	0.1%
205th	Hong Kong SAR, China	92.51%	0.3%
206th	Andorra	95.29%	0.3%
207th	Kuwait	97.74%	0.5%
208th	Macao SAR, China	98.95%	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 1984?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population in 1984 was 20.68%. This ranked 30th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's urban population change in 1984?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population decreased by 1.5% in 1984 compared to 1983.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1984?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1984 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Sri Lanka in 1984?▾

The urban population of Sri Lanka in 1984 was 20.68%. This ranked 30th globally.

How does 1984 compare to 1983 for Sri Lanka's urban population?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population went from 21.00% in 1983 to 20.68% in 1984, a 1.5% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Sri Lanka matched the Export Boom Cycle pattern in 1984. Historically: 768 occurrences, 546 successful (71%). Outcome 24 months later: 4.4%. View full analysis →

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