Sri Lanka Analytics

Sri Lanka is a mid-size country with 0.3% of the world's population. Sri Lanka is a democratic republic country. It has 8 world heritage sites.

LANGUAGES

Official Language:
1. Sinhalese : 13,994,237
2. Tamil : 3,967,000

Mother Tongue : Sinhalese

Literacy Rate (%) : 92.3

Details

Country Capital	:	Colombo
GDP Per capita	:	14,267
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	100^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	76
Unemployment Rate	:	4
Number of Internet Users	:	14,740,000
Internet Users Rank	:	49^th/195
Area	:	62,705
Area Rank	:	120^th/195
Total Population	:	21,773
Total Population Rank	:	59^th/195

Continent: Asia

Cities with > 100K popln: 6

What is A.I.? FAQ

Sri Lanka Highlights

Sri Lanka is the 59^th ranked country in population and 120^th ranked in area out of 195 countries in the world.Please keep the country rank in perspective, for the highlights below.

Better than World Average-

1. Sri Lanka is the 117^th highest ranked in Literacy Rate (%) out of 195 countries in the world. This indicates that there is a better educational infrastructure in this country as compared to other countries.

Worse than World Average-

1. Sri Lanka is the 83^rd worst ranked in Potatoes prod. out of 195 countries in the world. This is indicative of less focus on the production of potatoes, or scarcity of fertile land, or higher industrialisation as compared to other countries.
2. The average Urban Population (2021) of the countries in the world is 22,563,215. Sri Lanka is the 94^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This may indicate that there is poor economic development or may imply that the formal economy of the country is less compared to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Sri Lanka is the 96^th worst ranked in GDP Per Capita (USD) . This implies that this country is a developing country.

Sri Lanka Metrics

Culture

Nature

Internet

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Sinhalese	# People	72,231	1	1129
2	Sinhalese as a % of total Sinhalese speakers	% People	0	1	1129
3	Tamil	# People	459,389	2	1128
4	Tamil as a % of total Tamil speakers	% People	0	2	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Malay	# People	162,307	6	1234
2	Malay as a % of total Malay speakers	% People	0	6	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	85	1	1127
2	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	41	12	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	59	186	1234
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	94	1234
3	# Cities>300000	# Cities	14	87	1233
4	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	73	1230
5	# Cities>500000	# Cities	8	66	1231
6	Urban Population (2021)	# People	22,563,215	102	1233
7	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	89	1230
8	# Cities>100000	# Cities	42	87	1234
9	Rural Pop.	# People	36,027,518	32	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Cricket Playing Nations (ICC Members)	Count	1	1	1129
2	Buddhist Population	# People	1,912,220	6	1128
3	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	41	1125
Below than World Average-
1	# Olympic Medals	Count	126	102	1234
2	Christian Population	# People	11,763,461	102	1230
3	Islamic Population	# People	9,744,062	66	1235
4	Hindu Population	# People	6,158,261	6	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Buddhist Pop./Total Pop.%.	% People	3	5	1128
2	Buddhist Pop./Total Buddhist Pop. %	% People	1	7	1125
3	Hindu Pop./Total Pop.%.	% People	2	11	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	130	1231
2	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	1	103	1234
3	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	78	1235
4	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	1	65	1234
5	Hindu Pop./Total Hindu Pop.%	% People	1	7	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	49	20	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	175	1234
2	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	1	141	1232
3	Births	# People (In Thousands)	688	72	1234
4	Male Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,393	60	1235
5	Total Population (2021)	# People (In Thousands)	40,345	59	1232
6	Female Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,160	57	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	28	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	1	65	1232
2	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	65	1232
3	Police Officers	# People	138,224	32	1230
4	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	1	29	1232
5	Total Military Force	# People	353,432	28	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	36	1129
Below than World Average-
1	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	44	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	42	1128
2	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	55	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		52	133	1233
2	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		45	125	1231
3	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	25,265	100	1230
4	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	89	1232
5	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	182,282	84	1234
6	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	81	1233
7	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	184,833	82	1235
8	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	80	1233
9	GDP (Billions USD) 2022	$ Billions	531	75	1233
10	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	1	70	1233
11	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	10,566	14	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	71	51	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	35	114	1235
2	Total No. of Doctors	# People	118,384	89	1230
3	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	28,678	83	1234
4	Dentist to doctor ratio	Ratio	3	73	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	22,685	51	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	1	113	1230
2	Tree density .	Density	828	116	1234
3	Potatoes prod.	Weight	2,516,782	113	1233
4	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	101	1234
5	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	104	1230
6	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	83	1231
7	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	1	76	1231
8	Onion prod.	Weight	759,968	78	1230
9	Soyabean prod.	Weight	3,628,152	69	1232
10	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	1	55	1235
11	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Weight	833,178	54	1235
12	Rice prod.	Weight	6,871,329	21	1232
13	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	1	21	1233
14	Sugarcane prod.	Weight	2,422,324	18	1235
15	Sugarcane Produced/Total Sugarcane Produced.%	Weight	5	19	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	68	1127
2	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	24	70	1127
3	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	24	70	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Unemployment Rate.	% People	13	128	1233
2	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	55	125	1234
3	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	126	1234
4	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	121	1234
5	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	117	1233
6	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	109	1231
7	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	99	1230
8	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	59	1231
9	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	19,636,200	59	1232
10	Employment in Services	# People	19,494,546	59	1233
11	Employment in Agriculture	# People	10,466,926	53	1233
12	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	28,805,473	53	1233
13	Formal Jobs	# People	20,455,444	51	1232
14	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	3,296,469	47	1232
15	Labour Force Participation	# People	23,249,057	44	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	117	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	127	1231
2	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	123	1233
3	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	117	1231
4	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	109	1233
5	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	97	1232
6	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	75	1230
7	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	73	1230
8	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	72	1231
9	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	71	1233
10	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	61	1233
11	Total Literate Pop.	# People	68,251,097	55	1230
12	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	53	1231
13	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	42	1234
14	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	41	1234
15	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	37	1234
16	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	28	1233
17	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	21	1233
18	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	11	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	67	118	1128
Below than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	76	128	1235
2	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	54	124	1232
3	Facebook users	# People	16,391,045	51	1232
4	Internet Users	# People	25,030,008	49	1231

Sri Lanka Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Sinhalese	64.27 %
2	Tamil	18.22 %
3	Malay	0.23 %

Sr.	City	Total City Population (2023)
1	Colombo	686,461
2	Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia	223,304
3	Kandy	115,948
4	Moratuwa	188,403
5	Negombo	129,103
6	Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte	123,480