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Economic indicators

	2015	2020	2024
GDP: Gross domestic product (million current US$)	85 141	84 441	76 187^b
GDP growth rate (annual %, const. 2015 prices)	4.2	-4.6	-7.8^b
GDP per capita (current US$)	3 990.4	3 888.6	3 489.7^b
Economy: Agriculture^f,g (% of Gross Value Added)	8.9	8.7	9.2^b
Economy: Industry^g,h (% of Gross Value Added)	32.1	29.9	31.8^b
Economy: Services and other activity^g,i (% of GVA)	58.9	61.3	59^b
Employment in agriculture^j (% of employed)	28.7	27.1	26.4^b
Employment in industry^j (% of employed)	25.8	26.9	27^b
Employment in services^j (% employed)	45.6	46	46.5^b
Unemployment (% of labour force)	4.5	5.4	6.6^j
Labour force participation rate (female/male pop. %)	35.4 / 73.8	31.7 / 71.3	32.1 / 71.5^j
CPI: Consumer Price Index^k (2010=100)	110	138	221^b
Agricultural production index (2014-2016=100)	104	109	99^b
International trade: exports (million current US$)	10 440	10 707	12 052^l
International trade: imports (million current US$)	18 967	15 607	16 386^l
International trade: balance (million current US$)	- 8 528	- 4 900	- 4 334^l
Balance of payments, current account (million US$)	- 1 883	- 1 187	1 559^l

Social indicators

	2015	2020	2024
Population growth rate (average annual %)	0.8	0.7	0.6^a
Urban population (% of total population)	18.3	18.6^d	...
Urban population growth rate (average annual %)	0.5^m	...	...
Fertility rate, total (live births per woman)	2.1	2	2^a
Life expectancy at birth (females/males, years)	79.4 / 72.6	80.1 / 73.7	80.7 / 74.4^a
Population age distributionⁿ (0-14/60+ years old, %)	24.7 / 13.6	23.3 / 15.6	22.0 / 17.2^a
International migrant stock (000/% of total pop.)	39.7 / 0.2^o	40.3 / 0.2^o	... / ...
Refugees and others of concern to UNHCR (000)	51.8	26.6	9.6^l
Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)	8.8	7	6.2^a
Health: Current expenditure (% of GDP)	3.7	4^j	4.1^j,e
Health: Physicians (per 1 000 pop.)	0.8	1.2	1.2^e
Education: Government expenditure (% of GDP)	2.1	2^p	...
Education: Primary gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	97.1 / 98.0	97.8 / 97.2	97.9 / 95.8^e
Education: Lowr. sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	95.5 / 95.0	97.4 / 95.8	97.4 / 96.5^e
Education: Upr. Sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	99.4 / 89.3	102.8 / 90.7^p	89.0 / 81.1^e
Intentional homicide rate (per 100 000 pop.)	2.3	3.4^d	...
Seats held by women in national parliaments (%)	5.8	5.3^q	5.3^q

Environment and infrastructure indicators

	2015	2020	2024
Individuals using the Internet^s (per 100 inhabitants)	15.3^j,r	36.2	50.1^j,r,b
Research & Development expenditure (% of GDP)	0.1	0.1	...
Threatened species (number)	580	641	837^l
Forested area (% of land area)	34.4	34.2	34.1^e
CO2 emission estimates (million tons/tons per capita)	19.3 / 0.9	20.1 / 0.9	22.0 / 1.0^e
Energy production, primary (Petajoules)	159	153	166^j,e
Energy supply per capita (Gigajoules)	19	19	21^e
Tourist/visitor arrivals at national borders^t (000)	1 798	508	720^b
Important sites for terrestrial biodiversity protected (%)	43.7	43.7	43.7^l
Pop. using safely managed drinking water (urban/rural, %)	90.3 / 37.7	87.5 / 38.4	83.0 / 38.7^b
Net Official Development Assist. received (% of GNI)	0.57	0.28	0.19^e

Footnotes

a		Projected estimate (medium fertility variant).
b		2022
c		Colombo is the capital and Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital.
d		2019
e		2021
f		Excludes irrigation canals and landscaping care.
g		Data classified according to ISIC Rev. 4.
h		Excludes publishing activities. Includes irrigation canals.
i		Includes publishing activities and landscape care. Excludes repair of personal and household goods.
j		Estimate.
k		Index base: 2013=100.
l		2023
m		Data refers to a 5-year period preceding the reference year.
n		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division.
o		Including refugees.
p		2018
q		Data are as at 1 January of reporting year.
r		Users in the last 12 months.
s		Population aged 5 to 69 years.
t		Excluding nationals residing abroad.