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Sri Lanka - Urban Population 2000

Name: Sri Lanka Urban Population 2000
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

14.62% −0.12% from 1999 Global rank: 4th

Sri Lanka's urban population was 14.62% in 2000, decreased +0.12% from 14.74% in 1999. This was the 4th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2000▾

Urban Population by Country - 2000
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	8.04%	2.4%
2nd	Uganda	11.64%	2.0%
3rd	Papua New Guinea	13.22%	-0.7%
4th	Sri Lanka	14.62%	-0.8%
5th	Malawi	14.68%	0.8%
6th	Liechtenstein	14.99%	-1.3%
7th	Solomon Islands	15.75%	1.8%
8th	Rwanda	15.78%	7.5%
9th	South Sudan	16.04%	1.5%
10th	Niger	16.13%	0.5%
11th	Burkina Faso	18.00%	4.8%
12th	Afghanistan	18.56%	0.9%
13th	Cambodia	18.62%	0.6%
14th	Mali	18.98%	1.7%
15th	Lesotho	19.33%	3.0%
16th	Kenya	19.46%	2.2%
17th	Chad	21.65%	0.1%
18th	Vanuatu	21.66%	1.4%
19th	Samoa	21.95%	0.2%
20th	Lao PDR	22.18%	5.6%
21st	Tanzania	22.19%	1.7%
22nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.33%	-0.7%
23rd	Eswatini	22.84%	-0.5%
24th	Tonga	23.03%	0.1%
25th	Bangladesh	23.31%	1.6%
26th	Timor-Leste	24.11%	1.4%
27th	Viet Nam	24.37%	2.3%
28th	Madagascar	25.01%	1.2%
29th	Tajikistan	26.54%	-0.1%
30th	Yemen, Republic of	26.61%	2.0%
31st	Myanmar	27.53%	0.6%
32nd	Bhutan	27.59%	2.6%
33rd	Maldives	27.60%	2.2%
34th	India	27.65%	0.9%
35th	St. Lucia	27.85%	-1.1%
36th	Comoros	28.04%	-0.2%
37th	Guyana	28.76%	-0.5%
38th	Mozambique	29.24%	0.7%
39th	Channel Islands	30.46%	0.1%
40th	Guinea	30.92%	1.0%
41st	Nepal	31.10%	5.5%
42nd	Thailand	31.46%	4.3%
43rd	Namibia	32.12%	2.4%
44th	Antigua and Barbuda	32.23%	-1.5%
45th	Sudan	32.34%	0.1%
46th	Zimbabwe	32.40%	0.4%
47th	St. Kitts and Nevis	32.76%	-0.6%
48th	Pakistan	33.00%	0.6%
49th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	33.06%	1.3%
50th	Togo	33.10%	1.4%
51st	Eritrea	34.10%	1.8%
52nd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	34.90%	1.5%
53rd	Kyrgyz Republic	35.32%	0.0%
54th	Sierra Leone	35.53%	0.6%
55th	Faroe Islands	35.70%	0.1%
56th	Grenada	35.87%	0.4%
57th	Zambia	35.87%	-0.8%
58th	China	36.43%	4.8%
59th	Haiti	36.84%	4.3%
60th	Guinea-Bissau	36.84%	0.9%
61st	Kosovo	37.48%	0.1%
62nd	Central African Republic	37.70%	0.1%
63rd	Mauritania	38.06%	-0.1%
64th	Benin	38.28%	0.8%
65th	Equatorial Guinea	38.82%	0.0%
66th	Philippines	39.14%	1.0%
67th	Moldova	40.42%	-0.3%
68th	Senegal	40.67%	0.5%
69th	Albania	41.61%	1.8%
70th	British Virgin Islands	41.98%	0.2%
71st	Indonesia	41.99%	2.4%
72nd	Mauritius	42.06%	-0.5%
73rd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	42.55%	0.8%
74th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.73%	0.1%
75th	Côte d'Ivoire	43.08%	0.9%
76th	Guatemala	43.24%	3.9%
77th	Nigeria	43.28%	2.0%
78th	Kiribati	43.33%	2.4%
79th	Seychelles	43.40%	-0.6%
80th	Liberia	43.77%	0.8%
81st	Ghana	43.94%	1.7%
82nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	44.89%	0.3%
83rd	Honduras	45.32%	1.2%
84th	Tuvalu	45.51%	1.2%
85th	Turkmenistan	46.07%	0.7%
86th	Cameroon	46.24%	1.2%
87th	Gambia, The	46.97%	3.3%
88th	Uzbekistan	47.67%	1.8%
89th	Belize	47.68%	0.0%
90th	Fiji	48.06%	0.8%
91st	Angola	50.51%	2.5%
92nd	Slovenia	50.70%	0.2%
93rd	Azerbaijan	51.13%	0.3%
94th	Jamaica	51.72%	0.4%
95th	Isle of Man	51.83%	0.0%
96th	Syrian Arab Republic	51.88%	0.8%
97th	Georgia	52.49%	-0.3%
98th	Romania	52.86%	-0.3%
99th	São Tomé and Principe	52.97%	1.8%
100th	Botswana	53.20%	1.4%
101st	Morocco	53.59%	0.6%
102nd	Cabo Verde	53.93%	1.6%
103rd	Portugal	54.41%	1.2%
104th	Nicaragua	55.22%	0.3%
105th	Serbia	55.59%	0.9%
106th	Croatia	55.68%	0.1%
107th	Trinidad and Tobago	55.93%	0.0%
108th	French Polynesia	55.95%	-0.2%
109th	Kazakhstan	56.02%	-0.3%
110th	Slovak Republic	56.11%	-0.2%
111th	South Africa	56.26%	1.5%
112th	El Salvador	56.56%	1.6%
113th	Mongolia	56.73%	0.1%
114th	Paraguay	57.51%	1.0%
115th	North Macedonia	58.49%	-0.8%
116th	Congo, Republic of	58.89%	0.9%
117th	Türkiye	58.97%	1.5%
118th	Costa Rica	59.05%	1.9%
119th	Montenegro	59.09%	2.0%
120th	Ireland	59.12%	0.4%
121st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	59.42%	0.1%
122nd	Algeria	59.85%	1.3%
123rd	Ecuador	60.69%	0.7%
124th	Dominican Republic	61.31%	1.6%
125th	New Caledonia	61.61%	0.6%
126th	Poland	61.75%	0.0%
127th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	61.86%	0.8%
128th	Malaysia	61.97%	1.8%
129th	Panama	62.22%	0.8%
130th	Barbados	62.54%	-0.3%
131st	Tunisia	63.62%	0.6%
132nd	Hungary	64.26%	0.5%
133rd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	64.48%	1.2%
134th	Armenia	64.96%	-0.3%
135th	Dominica	65.24%	0.1%
136th	Aruba	65.35%	0.0%
137th	Suriname	66.70%	0.0%
138th	Austria	66.77%	0.2%
139th	Lithuania	66.98%	-0.1%
140th	Finland	67.12%	0.7%
141st	Italy	67.19%	0.1%
142nd	Estonia	67.39%	-0.1%
143rd	Ukraine	67.40%	-0.1%
144th	Iraq	67.63%	0.1%
145th	Latvia	68.05%	-0.1%
146th	Bulgaria	68.26%	0.3%
147th	Marshall Islands	68.28%	0.4%
148th	Cyprus	68.77%	0.1%
149th	Palau	69.59%	-0.1%
150th	Belarus	69.92%	0.6%
151st	Brunei Darussalam	71.22%	0.6%
152nd	European Union	71.52%	0.3%
153rd	Oman	71.54%	0.0%
154th	West Bank and Gaza	72.07%	2.0%
155th	Greece	72.67%	0.2%
156th	Peru	72.77%	0.5%
157th	Russian Federation	73.16%	0.3%
158th	Switzerland	73.30%	0.2%
159th	Djibouti	73.35%	-0.6%
160th	Czechia	74.00%	-0.2%
161st	Colombia	74.35%	0.6%
162nd	Mexico	74.92%	0.4%
163rd	Cuba	75.64%	0.3%
164th	Norway	76.13%	0.4%
165th	Spain	76.17%	0.2%
166th	France	76.51%	0.5%
167th	Jordan	78.28%	0.0%
168th	Netherlands	78.48%	1.8%
169th	Japan	78.61%	0.2%
170th	Canada	78.63%	0.2%
171st	United States	79.07%	0.3%
172nd	United Arab Emirates	79.29%	0.5%
173rd	Gabon	79.57%	1.1%
174th	Korea	79.58%	0.3%
175th	United Kingdom	79.82%	0.3%
176th	Saudi Arabia	79.97%	0.2%
177th	Germany	80.09%	0.0%
178th	Bahamas, The	81.04%	0.1%
179th	Brazil	81.15%	0.7%
180th	Greenland	81.45%	0.4%
181st	Belgium	82.02%	0.4%
182nd	Sweden	84.04%	0.0%
183rd	Luxembourg	84.42%	0.5%
184th	Turks and Caicos Islands	84.61%	0.9%
185th	Denmark	85.10%	0.0%
186th	Australia	85.11%	0.0%
187th	New Zealand	85.71%	0.1%
188th	Lebanon	86.00%	0.1%
189th	Chile	86.27%	0.3%
190th	Libya	86.95%	0.5%
191st	Bahrain	87.84%	-0.1%
192nd	American Samoa	88.61%	0.2%
193rd	Argentina	89.18%	0.2%
194th	Northern Mariana Islands	90.16%	0.1%
195th	Curaçao	90.87%	0.5%
196th	Uruguay	91.28%	0.1%
197th	Israel	91.28%	0.1%
198th	Iceland	91.97%	0.2%
199th	Andorra	92.26%	-0.3%
200th	Virgin Islands (US)	92.62%	0.5%
201st	Guam	93.14%	0.2%
202nd	Malta	93.28%	0.1%
203rd	San Marino	93.77%	0.2%
204th	Puerto Rico (US)	94.40%	0.1%
205th	Qatar	96.29%	0.2%
206th	Kuwait	99.00%	0.2%
207th	Macao SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
208th	Bermuda	100.00%	0.0%
209th	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
210th	Gibraltar	100.00%	0.0%
211th	Hong Kong SAR, China	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 2000?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population in 2000 was 14.62%. This ranked 4th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's urban population change in 2000?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population decreased by 0.8% in 2000 compared to 1999.

Which country had the highest urban population in 2000?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 2000 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Sri Lanka in 2000?▾

The urban population of Sri Lanka in 2000 was 14.62%. This ranked 4th globally.

How does 2000 compare to 1999 for Sri Lanka's urban population?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population went from 14.74% in 1999 to 14.62% in 2000, a 0.8% decrease.

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