{"id":137797,"date":"2023-10-20T17:37:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T00:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=137797"},"modified":"2023-10-20T17:37:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T00:37:43","slug":"sri-lankas-urban-population-increases-to-44-57-percent-in-a-decade-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/10\/20\/sri-lankas-urban-population-increases-to-44-57-percent-in-a-decade-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s urban population increases to 44.57 percent in a decade: survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/english.khabarhub.com\/author\/newsadmin\/\">Khabarhub<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>COLOMBO, SRILANKA: The urban population in Sri Lanka has increased to 44.57 percent, state media reported on Thursday, quoting a survey from the National Physical Planning Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state-owned Daily News reported that the last survey on urbanization in Sri Lanka was conducted in 2012 and urbanization at that point was 18.2 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the latest survey, Colombo is the district with the highest urban population percentage of 96.74 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The survey also shows that the percentage of urbanization in Gampaha district is 76.76 percent, followed by Jaffna district at 67.28 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daily News quoting the survey said the lowest percentage of urban population is reported in Mullaitivu district at 2.84 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This survey report is to be submitted to the cabinet after receiving approval from the president and all district committees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khabarhub COLOMBO, SRILANKA: The urban population in Sri Lanka has increased to 44.57 percent, state media reported on Thursday, quoting a survey from the National Physical Planning Department. The state-owned Daily News reported that the last survey on urbanization in Sri Lanka was conducted in 2012 and urbanization at that point was 18.2 percent. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}