Population living in slums (% of urban population) (World Bank WDI)
World Bank indicators. % (share) of urban population, annual.
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Data source: World Bank, wdi_lka.zip (8 Oct 2026)
Macro Lab · LK.POP.WDI.EN_POP_SLUM_UR_ZS.A · CC BY 4.0
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- Source World Bank, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit % (share) of urban population
- Date range 2000 – 2022
- Last checked 8 Oct 2026
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- Population living in slums (% of urban population) (World Bank WDI)
- Read from
- World Bank: World Development Indicators and International Debt Statistics (World Bank)
- Source page
- https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka
- Licence
- Source: The World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- Notes
- World Bank, World Development Indicators, EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS, Sri Lanka. Data source (as the World Bank gives it): Urban Indicators Database, UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), uri: https://data.unhabitat.org/ Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators, https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka.
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