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Sri Lanka - Urban Population 1995

Name: Sri Lanka Urban Population 1995
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

15.87% −0.40% from 1994 Global rank: 10th

Sri Lanka's urban population was 15.87% in 1995, decreased +0.40% from 16.26% in 1994. This was the 10th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1995▾

Urban Population by Country - 1995
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	7.17%	2.4%
2nd	Rwanda	8.82%	17.8%
3rd	Uganda	10.73%	1.5%
4th	Malawi	13.64%	2.8%
5th	Papua New Guinea	14.35%	-2.1%
6th	Solomon Islands	14.62%	1.2%
7th	South Sudan	14.74%	2.0%
8th	Burkina Faso	14.89%	2.6%
9th	Niger	15.80%	0.5%
10th	Sri Lanka	15.87%	-2.4%
11th	Liechtenstein	16.44%	-0.7%
12th	Lesotho	16.47%	4.4%
13th	Lao PDR	17.28%	3.1%
14th	Cambodia	17.50%	2.2%
15th	Mali	17.62%	1.2%
16th	Afghanistan	17.83%	0.7%
17th	Kenya	18.58%	0.4%
18th	Vanuatu	20.24%	1.4%
19th	Tanzania	20.51%	1.5%
20th	Viet Nam	21.45%	2.9%
21st	Chad	21.49%	0.2%
22nd	Samoa	21.56%	0.5%
23rd	Bangladesh	21.66%	1.5%
24th	Timor-Leste	22.56%	1.3%
25th	Tonga	22.82%	0.4%
26th	Eswatini	23.05%	0.1%
27th	Madagascar	23.48%	1.4%
28th	Yemen, Republic of	23.80%	2.7%
29th	Bhutan	24.00%	3.2%
30th	Nepal	24.10%	4.7%
31st	Thailand	24.11%	6.4%
32nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	25.29%	-1.1%
33rd	Maldives	25.55%	0.0%
34th	India	26.57%	0.7%
35th	Myanmar	26.65%	0.7%
36th	Eritrea	27.24%	7.9%
37th	Mozambique	27.63%	2.5%
38th	Comoros	28.35%	-0.2%
39th	Tajikistan	28.42%	-2.5%
40th	Namibia	28.67%	1.9%
41st	China	29.04%	1.9%
42nd	St. Lucia	29.16%	-0.6%
43rd	Guyana	29.37%	-0.3%
44th	Guinea	29.50%	0.9%
45th	Haiti	29.83%	4.3%
46th	Channel Islands	30.43%	-0.6%
47th	Togo	30.86%	1.5%
48th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	31.07%	1.2%
49th	Zimbabwe	31.43%	0.9%
50th	Pakistan	31.91%	0.7%
51st	Sudan	32.11%	0.2%
52nd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	32.46%	1.4%
53rd	St. Kitts and Nevis	33.75%	-0.6%
54th	Faroe Islands	34.38%	1.3%
55th	Grenada	34.49%	1.0%
56th	Sierra Leone	34.50%	0.6%
57th	Antigua and Barbuda	34.60%	-1.0%
58th	Guinea-Bissau	34.93%	1.4%
59th	Guatemala	35.76%	1.9%
60th	Kyrgyz Republic	36.18%	-1.1%
61st	Indonesia	36.30%	3.5%
62nd	Kiribati	36.33%	1.0%
63rd	Benin	36.84%	0.9%
64th	Kosovo	37.31%	0.1%
65th	Philippines	37.40%	0.8%
66th	Central African Republic	37.48%	0.1%
67th	Albania	38.30%	1.5%
68th	Zambia	38.40%	-0.7%
69th	Mauritania	38.65%	-0.5%
70th	Equatorial Guinea	38.80%	0.0%
71st	Nigeria	39.14%	2.1%
72nd	Gambia, The	39.57%	3.2%
73rd	Senegal	39.81%	0.4%
74th	Ghana	39.96%	2.2%
75th	British Virgin Islands	40.92%	0.9%
76th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	40.93%	0.8%
77th	Côte d'Ivoire	41.29%	0.8%
78th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.70%	-0.3%
79th	Honduras	42.86%	1.1%
80th	Tuvalu	43.06%	1.2%
81st	Mauritius	43.20%	-0.5%
82nd	Cameroon	43.37%	1.5%
83rd	Uzbekistan	43.48%	1.7%
84th	Angola	44.21%	2.8%
85th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	44.27%	0.3%
86th	Liberia	44.53%	-7.7%
87th	Turkmenistan	44.71%	0.0%
88th	Fiji	45.66%	1.8%
89th	Moldova	45.72%	-0.3%
90th	Seychelles	46.85%	-1.8%
91st	Belize	47.47%	0.1%
92nd	São Tomé and Principe	48.50%	1.8%
93rd	Cabo Verde	49.60%	1.9%
94th	Botswana	49.61%	1.7%
95th	Syrian Arab Republic	50.05%	0.6%
96th	Slovenia	50.20%	0.1%
97th	Jamaica	50.57%	0.5%
98th	Portugal	51.01%	1.4%
99th	Morocco	51.76%	1.1%
100th	Isle of Man	51.78%	0.0%
101st	Azerbaijan	52.31%	-0.4%
102nd	El Salvador	52.40%	1.4%
103rd	Montenegro	52.83%	2.3%
104th	Serbia	52.91%	1.1%
105th	South Africa	53.30%	0.4%
106th	Costa Rica	53.60%	2.0%
107th	Georgia	53.70%	-0.6%
108th	Romania	53.90%	-0.4%
109th	Paraguay	54.13%	1.5%
110th	Nicaragua	54.45%	0.3%
111th	Türkiye	55.07%	1.3%
112th	Croatia	55.16%	0.3%
113th	Trinidad and Tobago	55.70%	0.2%
114th	Malaysia	55.92%	2.5%
115th	Algeria	56.01%	1.4%
116th	Congo, Republic of	56.41%	0.7%
117th	French Polynesia	56.54%	-0.4%
118th	Slovak Republic	56.63%	-0.1%
119th	Kazakhstan	56.75%	-0.2%
120th	Mongolia	56.79%	-0.1%
121st	Dominican Republic	57.13%	1.1%
122nd	Ireland	57.94%	0.4%
123rd	Ecuador	58.22%	1.0%
124th	Panama	58.25%	1.8%
125th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	59.07%	0.2%
126th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	59.39%	1.0%
127th	North Macedonia	59.73%	0.0%
128th	New Caledonia	60.26%	0.3%
129th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	60.42%	1.5%
130th	Poland	61.60%	0.1%
131st	Tunisia	61.62%	0.8%
132nd	Hungary	62.63%	0.5%
133rd	Barbados	63.24%	-0.2%
134th	Finland	64.81%	0.5%
135th	Dominica	64.89%	0.1%
136th	Aruba	65.38%	0.0%
137th	Austria	65.86%	0.4%
138th	Armenia	66.40%	-0.5%
139th	Suriname	66.56%	0.1%
140th	Italy	66.82%	0.1%
141st	Lithuania	67.35%	-0.1%
142nd	West Bank and Gaza	67.54%	0.8%
143rd	Marshall Islands	67.54%	0.1%
144th	Bulgaria	67.83%	0.2%
145th	Ukraine	67.84%	-0.1%
146th	Iraq	67.85%	-0.5%
147th	Belarus	68.02%	0.4%
148th	Cyprus	68.17%	0.3%
149th	Brunei Darussalam	68.81%	0.8%
150th	Estonia	68.96%	-0.8%
151st	Latvia	69.19%	-0.5%
152nd	European Union	70.69%	0.2%
153rd	Netherlands	70.69%	0.4%
154th	Peru	70.89%	0.6%
155th	Palau	71.39%	0.2%
156th	Switzerland	71.53%	0.8%
157th	Oman	71.66%	0.0%
158th	Colombia	71.82%	0.7%
159th	Greece	72.08%	0.1%
160th	Russian Federation	72.94%	0.0%
161st	Mexico	73.30%	0.5%
162nd	Norway	73.92%	0.4%
163rd	Cuba	74.58%	0.1%
164th	Czechia	74.71%	-0.2%
165th	Gabon	74.99%	1.3%
166th	France	75.10%	0.3%
167th	Djibouti	75.40%	-0.4%
168th	Spain	75.59%	0.2%
169th	United States	77.20%	0.6%
170th	Canada	77.64%	0.4%
171st	Brazil	77.71%	0.7%
172nd	Japan	78.02%	0.2%
173rd	Jordan	78.25%	0.1%
174th	United Arab Emirates	78.26%	0.0%
175th	Korea	78.40%	0.7%
176th	United Kingdom	78.66%	0.3%
177th	Saudi Arabia	78.92%	0.3%
178th	Germany	80.05%	0.0%
179th	Turks and Caicos Islands	80.19%	1.3%
180th	Belgium	80.34%	0.4%
181st	Bahamas, The	80.74%	0.1%
182nd	Greenland	81.06%	0.3%
183rd	Luxembourg	82.19%	0.5%
184th	Sweden	83.90%	0.1%
185th	American Samoa	84.00%	2.1%
186th	Libya	84.29%	0.8%
187th	Chile	84.42%	0.4%
188th	Denmark	85.00%	0.0%
189th	Lebanon	85.13%	0.3%
190th	Australia	85.29%	-0.1%
191st	New Zealand	85.39%	0.1%
192nd	Virgin Islands (US)	85.54%	3.1%
193rd	Curaçao	87.22%	1.0%
194th	Argentina	88.19%	0.3%
195th	Bahrain	88.24%	-0.1%
196th	Northern Mariana Islands	89.55%	0.0%
197th	Uruguay	90.60%	0.3%
198th	Israel	90.85%	0.1%
199th	Puerto Rico (US)	91.46%	1.4%
200th	Iceland	91.64%	0.2%
201st	Guam	92.04%	0.3%
202nd	San Marino	92.07%	0.4%
203rd	Malta	92.70%	0.2%
204th	Andorra	93.35%	-0.2%
205th	Qatar	95.07%	0.4%
206th	Kuwait	98.05%	0.0%
207th	Macao SAR, China	99.91%	0.0%
208th	Hong Kong SAR, China	99.99%	0.0%
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 1995?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population in 1995 was 15.87%. This ranked 10th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's urban population change in 1995?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population decreased by 2.4% in 1995 compared to 1994.

Which country had the highest urban population in 1995?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 1995 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Sri Lanka in 1995?▾

The urban population of Sri Lanka in 1995 was 15.87%. This ranked 10th globally.

How does 1995 compare to 1994 for Sri Lanka's urban population?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population went from 16.26% in 1994 to 15.87% in 1995, a 2.4% decrease.

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