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Sri Lanka - Urban Population 1992

Name: Sri Lanka Urban Population 1992
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

17.15% −0.47% from 1991 Global rank: 15th

Sri Lanka's urban population was 17.15% in 1992, decreased +0.47% from 17.61% in 1991. This was the 15th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1992▾

Urban Population by Country - 1992
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Rwanda	5.66%	5.6%
2nd	Burundi	6.65%	2.9%
3rd	Uganda	10.22%	2.1%
4th	Malawi	12.45%	3.5%
5th	South Sudan	13.80%	3.9%
6th	Burkina Faso	13.84%	2.3%
7th	Solomon Islands	14.12%	1.2%
8th	Lesotho	14.29%	5.4%
9th	Papua New Guinea	15.17%	-1.0%
10th	Niger	15.59%	0.4%
11th	Lao PDR	15.93%	2.3%
12th	Cambodia	16.41%	2.2%
13th	Liechtenstein	16.73%	-0.5%
14th	Mali	17.02%	1.1%
15th	Sri Lanka	17.15%	-2.7%
16th	Afghanistan	17.49%	0.6%
17th	Kenya	18.38%	0.4%
18th	Vanuatu	19.38%	1.6%
19th	Tanzania	19.59%	1.7%
20th	Viet Nam	19.83%	2.0%
21st	Thailand	20.23%	4.5%
22nd	Bangladesh	20.65%	1.9%
23rd	Nepal	21.17%	3.7%
24th	Samoa	21.23%	0.5%
25th	Chad	21.36%	0.3%
26th	Eritrea	21.43%	8.1%
27th	Timor-Leste	21.66%	1.5%
28th	Bhutan	21.74%	3.7%
29th	Yemen, Republic of	21.76%	3.7%
30th	Tonga	22.50%	0.6%
31st	Madagascar	22.54%	1.4%
32nd	Eswatini	23.00%	0.1%
33rd	Mozambique	25.23%	4.1%
34th	Maldives	25.72%	-0.3%
35th	Micronesia, Federated States of	25.81%	-0.4%
36th	India	25.98%	0.8%
37th	Myanmar	26.13%	0.6%
38th	Haiti	26.37%	4.0%
39th	Namibia	27.32%	0.9%
40th	China	27.46%	1.9%
41st	Comoros	28.47%	0.0%
42nd	Guinea	28.72%	0.9%
43rd	Togo	29.54%	1.5%
44th	St. Lucia	29.54%	-0.1%
45th	Guyana	29.55%	-0.1%
46th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	30.04%	1.1%
47th	Zimbabwe	30.57%	1.4%
48th	Tajikistan	30.62%	-2.2%
49th	Channel Islands	31.09%	-0.6%
50th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	31.11%	1.4%
51st	Pakistan	31.23%	0.8%
52nd	Sudan	31.74%	2.3%
53rd	Indonesia	32.69%	3.5%
54th	Guinea-Bissau	33.40%	2.0%
55th	Grenada	33.63%	0.4%
56th	Sierra Leone	33.90%	0.6%
57th	Faroe Islands	34.02%	0.9%
58th	St. Kitts and Nevis	34.32%	-0.5%
59th	Guatemala	34.43%	0.8%
60th	Antigua and Barbuda	35.43%	-0.2%
61st	Kiribati	35.49%	0.7%
62nd	Benin	35.79%	1.3%
63rd	Gambia, The	36.49%	2.0%
64th	Philippines	36.52%	0.7%
65th	Albania	36.72%	1.2%
66th	Nigeria	36.75%	2.2%
67th	Kosovo	37.11%	0.2%
68th	Central African Republic	37.33%	0.2%
69th	Kyrgyz Republic	37.37%	-0.9%
70th	Ghana	37.38%	2.3%
71st	Equatorial Guinea	37.70%	3.3%
72nd	Zambia	39.10%	-0.4%
73rd	Mauritania	39.19%	-0.4%
74th	Senegal	39.32%	0.5%
75th	British Virgin Islands	39.75%	1.1%
76th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	39.95%	0.8%
77th	Côte d'Ivoire	40.30%	0.8%
78th	Angola	40.52%	3.3%
79th	Tuvalu	41.31%	1.9%
80th	Cameroon	41.44%	1.6%
81st	Honduras	41.45%	1.2%
82nd	Uzbekistan	41.53%	1.1%
83rd	Fiji	43.03%	2.3%
84th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	43.18%	-0.5%
85th	Mauritius	43.77%	-0.2%
86th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	43.97%	0.1%
87th	Turkmenistan	44.80%	-0.2%
88th	São Tomé and Principe	45.80%	2.2%
89th	Moldova	46.38%	-1.1%
90th	Cabo Verde	46.56%	2.6%
91st	Botswana	46.80%	2.8%
92nd	Belize	47.32%	0.0%
93rd	Seychelles	48.40%	-0.6%
94th	Portugal	49.00%	1.3%
95th	Syrian Arab Republic	49.27%	0.4%
96th	Montenegro	49.72%	1.4%
97th	Morocco	49.81%	1.3%
98th	Jamaica	49.88%	0.4%
99th	El Salvador	50.29%	1.3%
100th	Costa Rica	50.48%	2.0%
101st	Slovenia	50.66%	0.3%
102nd	Serbia	51.30%	1.0%
103rd	Isle of Man	51.76%	0.0%
104th	Paraguay	51.80%	1.6%
105th	Malaysia	51.86%	2.7%
106th	South Africa	52.68%	0.5%
107th	Türkiye	52.79%	1.6%
108th	Azerbaijan	52.92%	-0.6%
109th	Algeria	53.71%	1.5%
110th	Nicaragua	53.88%	0.4%
111th	Romania	54.31%	0.0%
112th	Croatia	54.57%	0.4%
113th	Georgia	54.63%	-0.5%
114th	Congo, Republic of	55.29%	0.6%
115th	Trinidad and Tobago	55.34%	0.3%
116th	Panama	55.34%	1.5%
117th	Dominican Republic	55.62%	0.6%
118th	Ecuador	56.36%	1.1%
119th	Liberia	56.44%	-2.7%
120th	Slovak Republic	56.81%	0.0%
121st	Mongolia	56.95%	-0.1%
122nd	Kazakhstan	57.08%	-0.1%
123rd	Ireland	57.25%	0.3%
124th	French Polynesia	57.35%	-0.5%
125th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	57.58%	1.3%
126th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	57.85%	1.7%
127th	North Macedonia	58.56%	1.1%
128th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	58.75%	0.3%
129th	Tunisia	59.83%	1.4%
130th	New Caledonia	59.84%	0.2%
131st	Poland	61.44%	0.1%
132nd	Hungary	61.65%	0.5%
133rd	Barbados	63.50%	-0.1%
134th	Finland	64.10%	0.2%
135th	Dominica	64.63%	0.2%
136th	Austria	64.95%	0.5%
137th	Aruba	65.39%	0.0%
138th	West Bank and Gaza	66.10%	0.6%
139th	Suriname	66.45%	0.1%
140th	Italy	66.70%	0.0%
141st	Brunei Darussalam	67.12%	0.9%
142nd	Bulgaria	67.15%	0.1%
143rd	Marshall Islands	67.30%	0.1%
144th	Armenia	67.32%	-0.3%
145th	Belarus	67.32%	0.5%
146th	Lithuania	67.56%	-0.1%
147th	Cyprus	67.61%	0.3%
148th	Ukraine	67.86%	0.2%
149th	Iraq	68.97%	-0.6%
150th	Netherlands	69.31%	0.1%
151st	Peru	69.70%	0.6%
152nd	Switzerland	69.82%	0.8%
153rd	Latvia	70.22%	-0.4%
154th	European Union	70.32%	0.2%
155th	Colombia	70.42%	0.7%
156th	Palau	70.43%	0.7%
157th	Estonia	70.53%	-0.6%
158th	Oman	71.44%	0.6%
159th	Greece	71.77%	0.2%
160th	Gabon	71.95%	1.8%
161st	Mexico	72.24%	0.5%
162nd	Norway	72.65%	0.7%
163rd	Russian Federation	73.38%	-0.4%
164th	France	74.41%	0.2%
165th	Cuba	74.41%	0.4%
166th	Czechia	75.09%	-0.1%
167th	Spain	75.20%	0.2%
168th	United States	75.89%	0.5%
169th	Djibouti	76.05%	-0.1%
170th	Brazil	76.09%	0.8%
171st	Korea	76.20%	1.4%
172nd	Canada	76.74%	0.2%
173rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	76.86%	1.6%
174th	Virgin Islands (US)	77.04%	4.4%
175th	Jordan	77.21%	1.2%
176th	Japan	77.61%	0.2%
177th	Saudi Arabia	78.00%	0.6%
178th	United Kingdom	78.15%	0.1%
179th	United Arab Emirates	78.44%	-0.1%
180th	American Samoa	78.82%	2.1%
181st	Belgium	79.28%	0.5%
182nd	Germany	80.03%	0.0%
183rd	Greenland	80.30%	0.2%
184th	Bahamas, The	80.58%	0.1%
185th	Luxembourg	81.20%	0.2%
186th	Libya	82.16%	1.0%
187th	Chile	83.50%	0.2%
188th	Sweden	83.61%	0.1%
189th	Lebanon	84.17%	0.5%
190th	Denmark	84.88%	0.0%
191st	New Zealand	85.08%	0.2%
192nd	Curaçao	85.10%	0.5%
193rd	Australia	85.39%	0.0%
194th	Puerto Rico (US)	87.30%	1.9%
195th	Argentina	87.48%	0.3%
196th	Bahrain	88.44%	0.0%
197th	Northern Mariana Islands	89.67%	-0.1%
198th	Uruguay	89.78%	0.4%
199th	Israel	90.61%	0.1%
200th	San Marino	90.95%	0.3%
201st	Iceland	91.15%	0.3%
202nd	Guam	91.20%	0.3%
203rd	Malta	91.81%	0.4%
204th	Qatar	93.91%	0.5%
205th	Andorra	94.01%	-0.3%
206th	Kuwait	97.99%	0.0%
207th	Macao SAR, China	99.77%	0.1%
208th	Hong Kong SAR, China	99.83%	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 1992?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population in 1992 was 17.15%. This ranked 15th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's urban population change in 1992?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population decreased by 2.7% in 1992 compared to 1991.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1992?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1992 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Sri Lanka in 1992?▾

The urban population of Sri Lanka in 1992 was 17.15%. This ranked 15th globally.

How does 1992 compare to 1991 for Sri Lanka's urban population?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population went from 17.61% in 1991 to 17.15% in 1992, a 2.7% decrease.

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