COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Sri Lanka Urban Population
Sri Lanka urban population: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20,45 | 0,15 |
| 2024 | 20,30 | 0,15 |
| 2023 | 20,15 | 0,16 |
| 2022 | 19,99 | 0,16 |
| 2021 | 19,83 | 0,16 |
| 2020 | 19,66 | 0,17 |
| 2019 | 19,49 | 0,17 |
| 2018 | 19,32 | 0,17 |
| 2017 | 19,15 | 0,18 |
| 2016 | 18,97 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. The data are collected and smoothed by United Nations Population Division.
Source organization: World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, note: United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects, National definitions, publisher: UN Population Division
Metadata fetched: 2026-08-01 02:44:27. Open original metadata response.
Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesSri Lanka recorded 20,45 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2024, the urban population increased by 0,15.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 19,73; the minimum was 18,97 in 2016 and the maximum was 20,45 in 2025.
Sri Lanka ranks 212 out of 217 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for South Asia.
It is also below the available average for the Upper middle income group.
Urbanization and settlement structure.