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Sri Lanka - Urban Population 2012

Name: Sri Lanka Urban Population 2012
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Urban population as % of total · World Bank

18.26% +0.47% from 2011 Global rank: 8th

Sri Lanka's urban population was 18.26% in 2012, increased +0.47% from 17.79% in 2011. This was the 8th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2012▾

Urban Population by Country - 2012
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Burundi	12.22%	5.7%
2nd	Papua New Guinea	13.01%	0.1%
3rd	Liechtenstein	14.41%	0.0%
4th	Malawi	15.63%	0.5%
5th	Niger	16.21%	-0.1%
6th	Rwanda	16.94%	0.1%
7th	South Sudan	18.03%	1.4%
8th	Sri Lanka	18.26%	2.7%
9th	St. Lucia	18.62%	0.8%
10th	Samoa	19.48%	-0.7%
11th	Uganda	21.37%	6.6%
12th	Solomon Islands	21.39%	3.2%
13th	Chad	22.11%	0.7%
14th	Micronesia, Federated States of	22.29%	0.0%
15th	Eswatini	22.62%	0.7%
16th	Afghanistan	23.34%	2.3%
17th	Tonga	23.46%	0.0%
18th	Cambodia	23.94%	7.0%
19th	Mali	24.16%	2.2%
20th	Burkina Faso	24.80%	1.4%
21st	Vanuatu	24.82%	0.1%
22nd	Antigua and Barbuda	25.46%	-0.9%
23rd	Guyana	26.40%	0.0%
24th	Tajikistan	26.41%	-0.3%
25th	Madagascar	28.40%	0.9%
26th	Bangladesh	28.48%	1.3%
27th	Myanmar	29.40%	0.4%
28th	Comoros	29.40%	1.0%
29th	Tanzania	29.49%	2.2%
30th	Timor-Leste	29.61%	-0.1%
31st	Lesotho	29.90%	4.5%
32nd	Viet Nam	31.12%	1.4%
33rd	Yemen, Republic of	31.20%	0.9%
34th	St. Kitts and Nevis	31.20%	0.0%
35th	Mozambique	31.43%	0.7%
36th	India	31.59%	1.0%
37th	Lao PDR	31.74%	1.7%
38th	Kenya	31.86%	0.0%
39th	Channel Islands	32.44%	0.4%
40th	Zimbabwe	32.79%	0.1%
41st	Sudan	33.14%	0.7%
42nd	Guinea	34.33%	0.8%
43rd	Bhutan	35.02%	1.6%
44th	Pakistan	35.22%	0.6%
45th	Kyrgyz Republic	35.22%	-0.1%
46th	Eritrea	35.68%	0.0%
47th	Grenada	35.87%	0.0%
48th	Faroe Islands	37.32%	0.1%
49th	Maldives	37.48%	0.9%
50th	Kosovo	38.23%	0.5%
51st	Togo	38.42%	1.1%
52nd	Central African Republic	39.03%	0.6%
53rd	Moldova	39.36%	0.0%
54th	Sierra Leone	39.46%	1.1%
55th	Mauritius	40.04%	-0.3%
56th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	40.18%	1.0%
57th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	40.27%	2.3%
58th	Zambia	40.77%	1.0%
59th	Guinea-Bissau	40.87%	1.1%
60th	Seychelles	42.73%	0.1%
61st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	42.81%	-0.1%
62nd	Namibia	43.38%	1.8%
63rd	Benin	44.05%	1.3%
64th	Senegal	44.54%	1.1%
65th	Belize	44.69%	-0.6%
66th	Thailand	45.37%	1.3%
67th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	46.31%	0.3%
68th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	46.37%	0.7%
69th	Turkmenistan	46.96%	0.0%
70th	Haiti	47.43%	1.5%
71st	British Virgin Islands	47.54%	1.3%
72nd	Philippines	47.92%	2.6%
73rd	Côte d'Ivoire	48.12%	0.9%
74th	Mauritania	48.27%	2.4%
75th	Liberia	49.18%	1.1%
76th	Kiribati	49.58%	0.9%
77th	Slovenia	49.76%	-0.4%
78th	Indonesia	51.16%	1.3%
79th	Uzbekistan	51.34%	0.0%
80th	Cameroon	51.59%	0.7%
81st	Ghana	51.92%	1.1%
82nd	Isle of Man	52.06%	0.1%
83rd	Guatemala	52.35%	0.9%
84th	Honduras	52.66%	1.3%
85th	Fiji	53.04%	1.0%
86th	China	53.10%	2.5%
87th	Nigeria	53.30%	1.5%
88th	Azerbaijan	53.81%	0.6%
89th	Albania	53.86%	1.1%
90th	Trinidad and Tobago	53.93%	0.0%
91st	Romania	53.96%	0.0%
92nd	Jamaica	54.25%	0.5%
93rd	Slovak Republic	54.28%	-0.3%
94th	Kazakhstan	54.69%	0.5%
95th	Croatia	55.30%	0.0%
96th	Georgia	56.17%	0.9%
97th	Tuvalu	56.90%	1.5%
98th	Nicaragua	57.23%	0.3%
99th	Gambia, The	57.32%	1.1%
100th	North Macedonia	58.39%	0.3%
101st	Equatorial Guinea	59.01%	5.4%
102nd	Barbados	59.24%	0.0%
103rd	Serbia	59.35%	-0.1%
104th	Morocco	59.43%	0.9%
105th	Paraguay	59.92%	0.4%
106th	Poland	60.63%	-0.2%
107th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	60.68%	0.3%
108th	Portugal	61.14%	0.0%
109th	Angola	61.51%	1.1%
110th	French Polynesia	61.53%	0.4%
111th	Ireland	62.25%	0.3%
112th	Congo, Republic of	62.72%	0.3%
113th	Ecuador	62.84%	0.1%
114th	South Africa	62.96%	0.2%
115th	Nepal	63.66%	0.8%
116th	Cabo Verde	63.73%	1.6%
117th	Aruba	63.83%	-0.3%
118th	Armenia	64.33%	0.0%
119th	Botswana	64.40%	0.6%
120th	Montenegro	64.52%	0.2%
121st	Syrian Arab Republic	65.09%	11.3%
122nd	Panama	65.28%	0.1%
123rd	Suriname	66.31%	-0.1%
124th	New Caledonia	66.74%	0.0%
125th	Lithuania	66.85%	0.2%
126th	São Tomé and Principe	67.03%	0.5%
127th	Austria	67.21%	0.1%
128th	Tunisia	67.21%	0.4%
129th	El Salvador	67.22%	1.3%
130th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	67.26%	0.6%
131st	Cyprus	67.30%	-0.1%
132nd	Latvia	67.83%	0.0%
133rd	Mongolia	67.95%	0.0%
134th	Estonia	67.96%	0.1%
135th	Algeria	68.34%	0.9%
136th	Dominica	68.75%	0.5%
137th	Italy	68.76%	0.5%
138th	Ukraine	68.82%	0.1%
139th	Iraq	69.22%	0.1%
140th	Hungary	69.58%	0.1%
141st	Finland	70.37%	0.4%
142nd	Djibouti	70.73%	0.1%
143rd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	71.76%	0.8%
144th	Malaysia	71.97%	0.8%
145th	Bulgaria	72.77%	0.2%
146th	Czechia	73.22%	-0.1%
147th	European Union	73.35%	0.2%
148th	Costa Rica	73.39%	0.8%
149th	Switzerland	73.75%	0.1%
150th	Türkiye	73.78%	3.9%
151st	Russian Federation	73.97%	0.2%
152nd	Dominican Republic	74.24%	0.0%
153rd	Marshall Islands	74.27%	0.6%
154th	Brunei Darussalam	75.27%	-0.1%
155th	Belarus	75.53%	0.6%
156th	Oman	76.09%	0.6%
157th	Mexico	76.66%	0.1%
158th	Cuba	76.78%	0.1%
159th	Greece	76.87%	0.3%
160th	Colombia	76.94%	0.1%
161st	France	77.17%	0.1%
162nd	Peru	78.65%	0.8%
163rd	Spain	78.85%	0.2%
164th	Norway	79.49%	0.2%
165th	Germany	80.39%	0.1%
166th	United States	80.68%	0.0%
167th	Palau	81.13%	0.2%
168th	Canada	81.15%	0.1%
169th	United Kingdom	81.29%	0.2%
170th	Korea	81.91%	-0.1%
171st	Bahamas, The	82.39%	0.0%
172nd	Saudi Arabia	82.43%	0.2%
173rd	United Arab Emirates	83.76%	0.2%
174th	West Bank and Gaza	84.55%	0.4%
175th	Greenland	84.89%	0.4%
176th	Brazil	84.90%	0.3%
177th	Jordan	84.96%	1.7%
178th	Belgium	85.49%	0.3%
179th	Sweden	85.63%	0.3%
180th	American Samoa	85.72%	-0.4%
181st	New Zealand	85.78%	-0.1%
182nd	Australia	86.45%	0.1%
183rd	Gabon	86.88%	0.4%
184th	Chile	87.08%	0.1%
185th	Denmark	87.23%	0.1%
186th	Lebanon	88.02%	0.2%
187th	Libya	88.07%	0.0%
188th	Netherlands	88.53%	0.6%
189th	Andorra	88.63%	-0.1%
190th	Luxembourg	89.44%	0.5%
191st	Japan	91.03%	0.2%
192nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	91.04%	0.3%
193rd	Northern Mariana Islands	91.10%	0.1%
194th	Argentina	91.20%	0.1%
195th	Curaçao	91.28%	0.0%
196th	Israel	91.73%	0.0%
197th	Iceland	93.51%	0.1%
198th	Puerto Rico (US)	93.76%	0.0%
199th	Guam	94.08%	0.0%
200th	Malta	94.36%	0.0%
201st	Virgin Islands (US)	94.74%	0.1%
202nd	Uruguay	94.76%	0.2%
203rd	San Marino	97.10%	0.0%
204th	Qatar	98.74%	0.1%
205th	Bahrain	100.00%	0.0%
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 2012?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population in 2012 was 18.26%. This ranked 8th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's urban population change in 2012?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population increased by 2.7% in 2012 compared to 2011.

Which country had the highest urban population in 2012?▾

Bahrain had the highest urban population in 2012 at 100.00%.

What is the urban population of Sri Lanka in 2012?▾

The urban population of Sri Lanka in 2012 was 18.26%. This ranked 8th globally.

How does 2012 compare to 2011 for Sri Lanka's urban population?▾

Sri Lanka's urban population went from 17.79% in 2011 to 18.26% in 2012, a 2.7% increase.

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