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Sri Lanka - Urban Population 2008

Name: Sri Lanka Urban Population 2008
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

16.28% +0.42% from 2007 Global rank: 6th

Sri Lanka's urban population was 16.28% in 2008, increased +0.42% from 15.85% in 2007. This was the 6th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2008▾

Urban Population by Country - 2008
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	10.11%	3.4%
2nd	Papua New Guinea	13.02%	-0.1%
3rd	Liechtenstein	14.46%	-0.2%
4th	Malawi	15.32%	0.5%
5th	Niger	16.26%	0.0%
6th	Sri Lanka	16.28%	2.7%
7th	Uganda	16.51%	6.5%
8th	Rwanda	16.92%	0.0%
9th	South Sudan	17.03%	0.2%
10th	Solomon Islands	19.04%	2.7%
11th	Cambodia	19.66%	1.3%
12th	St. Lucia	19.82%	-5.3%
13th	Samoa	20.40%	-1.4%
14th	Afghanistan	21.12%	2.6%
15th	Chad	21.78%	0.0%
16th	Eswatini	22.17%	0.1%
17th	Mali	22.19%	2.1%
18th	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.31%	0.0%
19th	Tonga	23.29%	0.3%
20th	Burkina Faso	23.36%	1.7%
21st	Vanuatu	23.93%	1.4%
22nd	Lesotho	25.20%	4.0%
23rd	Tajikistan	26.53%	0.0%
24th	Tanzania	26.79%	2.7%
25th	Guyana	26.86%	-1.1%
26th	Bangladesh	26.87%	1.7%
27th	Antigua and Barbuda	27.06%	-2.4%
28th	Madagascar	27.32%	1.0%
29th	Comoros	28.42%	0.6%
30th	Timor-Leste	28.81%	2.9%
31st	Myanmar	28.86%	0.5%
32nd	Viet Nam	29.22%	2.0%
33rd	Lao PDR	29.40%	2.3%
34th	Yemen, Republic of	29.96%	1.2%
35th	India	30.14%	1.2%
36th	Mozambique	30.56%	0.7%
37th	Kenya	31.42%	3.3%
38th	St. Kitts and Nevis	31.56%	-0.4%
39th	Channel Islands	31.80%	0.7%
40th	Sudan	32.48%	0.0%
41st	Zimbabwe	32.69%	0.0%
42nd	Bhutan	32.76%	1.8%
43rd	Guinea	33.26%	0.9%
44th	Pakistan	34.45%	0.5%
45th	Kyrgyz Republic	35.29%	0.0%
46th	Eritrea	35.49%	0.3%
47th	Grenada	35.90%	0.0%
48th	Maldives	35.93%	1.4%
49th	Faroe Islands	36.47%	0.5%
50th	Togo	36.68%	1.2%
51st	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	37.18%	1.7%
52nd	Kosovo	37.78%	0.2%
53rd	Sierra Leone	37.87%	1.0%
54th	Central African Republic	38.35%	0.3%
55th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	38.60%	1.0%
56th	Zambia	38.96%	1.5%
57th	Guinea-Bissau	39.33%	0.8%
58th	Moldova	39.37%	-0.2%
59th	Namibia	39.83%	2.8%
60th	Mauritius	40.62%	-0.4%
61st	Benin	41.80%	1.3%
62nd	Thailand	41.90%	2.9%
63rd	Seychelles	42.70%	-0.1%
64th	Senegal	42.87%	0.8%
65th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.96%	0.0%
66th	Philippines	43.15%	1.9%
67th	Mauritania	43.58%	2.7%
68th	Haiti	44.68%	1.6%
69th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	45.11%	0.7%
70th	British Virgin Islands	45.24%	1.2%
71st	Belize	45.76%	-0.7%
72nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	45.82%	0.3%
73rd	Kiribati	45.95%	3.0%
74th	Côte d'Ivoire	46.36%	0.9%
75th	Turkmenistan	46.87%	0.1%
76th	China	46.99%	2.4%
77th	Liberia	47.11%	1.1%
78th	Equatorial Guinea	48.04%	4.8%
79th	Indonesia	48.46%	1.5%
80th	Albania	49.39%	2.5%
81st	Ghana	49.47%	1.3%
82nd	Honduras	50.03%	1.3%
83rd	Nigeria	50.05%	1.7%
84th	Cameroon	50.09%	0.8%
85th	Guatemala	50.12%	1.3%
86th	Slovenia	50.36%	-0.2%
87th	Fiji	51.10%	0.9%
88th	Isle of Man	51.47%	0.5%
89th	Uzbekistan	51.79%	0.2%
90th	Tuvalu	52.83%	2.2%
91st	Azerbaijan	53.06%	0.4%
92nd	Jamaica	53.37%	0.4%
93rd	Romania	53.63%	0.3%
94th	Kazakhstan	54.13%	-0.2%
95th	Georgia	54.22%	0.8%
96th	Syrian Arab Republic	54.59%	0.5%
97th	Gambia, The	54.64%	1.3%
98th	Trinidad and Tobago	54.68%	-0.5%
99th	Slovak Republic	54.90%	-0.3%
100th	Croatia	55.35%	-0.1%
101st	Nicaragua	56.46%	0.3%
102nd	Nepal	56.91%	6.6%
103rd	Morocco	57.13%	1.1%
104th	North Macedonia	57.96%	0.1%
105th	Angola	58.59%	1.4%
106th	Serbia	58.89%	0.6%
107th	Paraguay	59.24%	0.2%
108th	French Polynesia	59.26%	1.5%
109th	Barbados	59.49%	-0.5%
110th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	60.03%	0.2%
111th	Cabo Verde	60.07%	1.3%
112th	Portugal	60.35%	1.0%
113th	Poland	61.13%	-0.2%
114th	Ireland	61.36%	0.5%
115th	South Africa	61.77%	1.0%
116th	Botswana	61.83%	1.7%
117th	Congo, Republic of	62.04%	0.3%
118th	Ecuador	62.54%	0.2%
119th	El Salvador	63.64%	1.4%
120th	Montenegro	63.84%	0.5%
121st	São Tomé and Principe	63.87%	2.2%
122nd	Armenia	64.38%	-0.1%
123rd	Aruba	64.49%	-0.3%
124th	Panama	64.81%	0.3%
125th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	65.54%	0.7%
126th	Algeria	65.90%	1.1%
127th	Tunisia	66.07%	0.4%
128th	New Caledonia	66.33%	1.1%
129th	Mongolia	66.47%	1.9%
130th	Türkiye	66.51%	1.8%
131st	Suriname	66.58%	-0.1%
132nd	Lithuania	66.75%	0.1%
133rd	Austria	67.04%	0.0%
134th	Dominica	67.23%	0.5%
135th	Estonia	67.67%	0.1%
136th	Latvia	67.84%	0.0%
137th	Cyprus	67.87%	-0.3%
138th	Italy	67.91%	0.2%
139th	Hungary	68.10%	1.6%
140th	Ukraine	68.38%	0.2%
141st	Costa Rica	68.79%	2.0%
142nd	Iraq	68.86%	0.2%
143rd	Finland	69.29%	0.4%
144th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	69.38%	0.8%
145th	Malaysia	69.54%	1.1%
146th	Djibouti	70.68%	-0.2%
147th	Bulgaria	70.90%	0.3%
148th	Marshall Islands	72.37%	0.8%
149th	Dominican Republic	72.49%	2.1%
150th	European Union	72.82%	0.2%
151st	Czechia	73.47%	-0.1%
152nd	Russian Federation	73.48%	0.1%
153rd	Switzerland	73.55%	0.0%
154th	Belarus	73.55%	0.6%
155th	Oman	73.81%	1.0%
156th	Brunei Darussalam	74.79%	0.5%
157th	Greece	75.62%	0.6%
158th	Peru	76.27%	0.7%
159th	Cuba	76.37%	0.2%
160th	Colombia	76.46%	0.2%
161st	Mexico	76.51%	0.0%
162nd	France	77.16%	-0.1%
163rd	Spain	78.04%	0.3%
164th	Norway	78.75%	0.4%
165th	Palau	79.66%	0.8%
166th	Jordan	80.13%	1.0%
167th	Germany	80.25%	0.0%
168th	United States	80.62%	0.1%
169th	Canada	80.66%	0.3%
170th	United Kingdom	80.75%	0.1%
171st	Saudi Arabia	81.64%	0.3%
172nd	Korea	81.84%	0.2%
173rd	Bahamas, The	82.32%	0.1%
174th	United Arab Emirates	82.97%	0.3%
175th	West Bank and Gaza	83.10%	0.6%
176th	Greenland	83.62%	0.5%
177th	Brazil	83.80%	0.3%
178th	Belgium	84.43%	0.3%
179th	Sweden	84.75%	0.2%
180th	Gabon	85.24%	0.7%
181st	Netherlands	85.61%	0.2%
182nd	New Zealand	85.91%	0.0%
183rd	Australia	86.03%	0.1%
184th	Denmark	86.58%	0.2%
185th	Chile	86.88%	0.0%
186th	American Samoa	86.90%	-0.3%
187th	Lebanon	87.28%	0.2%
188th	Luxembourg	87.60%	0.5%
189th	Libya	88.15%	0.0%
190th	Andorra	88.94%	-0.1%
191st	Japan	89.29%	1.2%
192nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	89.51%	0.6%
193rd	Argentina	90.65%	0.2%
194th	Northern Mariana Islands	90.80%	0.1%
195th	Curaçao	91.22%	0.0%
196th	Israel	91.73%	0.0%
197th	Iceland	93.06%	0.8%
198th	Uruguay	93.46%	0.5%
199th	Puerto Rico (US)	93.81%	-0.1%
200th	Malta	94.03%	0.1%
201st	Guam	94.03%	0.1%
202nd	Virgin Islands (US)	94.37%	0.1%
203rd	Bahrain	96.35%	2.0%
204th	San Marino	96.39%	0.6%
205th	Qatar	98.13%	0.3%
206th	Bermuda	100.00%	0.0%
207th	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
208th	Gibraltar	100.00%	0.0%
209th	Hong Kong SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
210th	Kuwait	100.00%	0.0%
211th	Macao 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 2008?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population in 2008 was 16.28%. This ranked 6th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's urban population change in 2008?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population increased by 2.7% in 2008 compared to 2007.

Which country had the highest urban population in 2008?▾

Bermuda had the highest urban population in 2008 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Sri Lanka in 2008?▾

The urban population of Sri Lanka in 2008 was 16.28%. This ranked 6th globally.

How does 2008 compare to 2007 for Sri Lanka's urban population?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population went from 15.85% in 2007 to 16.28% in 2008, a 2.7% increase.

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