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

Details

Country Capital	:	Colombo
GDP Per capita	:	3,828
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	160^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	77
Unemployment Rate	:	4
Number of Internet Users	:	11,544,561
Internet Users Rank	:	55^th/195
Area	:	62,705
Area Rank	:	120^th/195
Total Population	:	23,229
Total Population Rank	:	60^th/195

Continent: Asia

Cities with > 100K popln: 6

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Sri Lanka Highlights

Sri Lanka is the 60^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 36^th worst ranked in GDP Per Capita (USD) out of 195 countries in the world. This implies that this country is a developing country.
2. The average HIV Infections (Per 1000) of the countries in the world is 0. Sri Lanka is the 68^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This may indicate a better healthcare infrastructure in the country or better health awareness among the people compared to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Sri Lanka is the 78^th worst ranked in Pharmacists (Per 10,000) . This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population.

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	1126
2	Sinhalese as a % of total Sinhalese speakers	% People	0	1	1130
3	Tamil	# People	459,389	2	1128
4	Tamil as a % of total Tamil speakers	% People	0	2	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Malay	# People	162,307	6	1235
2	Malay as a % of total Malay speakers	% People	0	6	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	1	1128
2	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	9	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	186	1231
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	94	1232
3	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1234
4	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	73	1233
5	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	65	1234
6	Urban Population	# People	23,726,053	106	1232
7	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	89	1232
8	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	86	1230
9	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	31	1231

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	1,911,974	6	1125
3	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	41	1130
Below than World Average-
1	# Olympic Medals	Count	157	104	1233
2	Christian Population	# People	11,885,917	101	1234
3	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	66	1232
4	Hindu Population	# People	6,207,784	6	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Buddhist Pop./Total Pop.%.	% People	3	5	1127
2	Buddhist Pop./Total Buddhist Pop. %	% People	0	6	1127
3	Hindu Pop./Total Pop.%.	% People	2	10	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	128	1235
2	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	0	100	1235
3	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	77	1234
4	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	0	65	1234
5	Hindu Pop./Total Hindu Pop.%	% People	0	6	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	18	1128
2	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	42	1129
Below than World Average-
1	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	30,070	160	1235
2	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		53	148	1235
3	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		46	135	1234
4	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	98	1233
5	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	3,115	98	1231
6	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	91	1234
7	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	183,299	91	1232
8	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	84	1234
9	GDP (Billions USD)	$ Billions	613	85	1234
10	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	186,399	85	1231
11	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	79	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	312	25	1128
2	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	26	1129
3	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	1	26	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	170	1235
2	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	124	1232
3	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	70	1235
4	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	60	1234
5	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	60	1234
6	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	60	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	31	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	0	65	1234
2	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	66	1231
3	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	36	1230
4	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	36	1235
5	Police Officers	# People	138,224	32	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	36	1127
Below than World Average-
1	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	44	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	22,685	51	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	114	1233
2	Tree density .	Density	828	116	1231
3	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	115	1234
4	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	101	1231
5	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	104	1233
6	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	83	1232
7	Onion Produced/Total Onion Produced %	Weight	0	76	1235
8	Onion prod.	Tons	773,539	77	1230
9	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	72	1232
10	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	57	1232
11	Sugarcane Produced/Total Sugarcane Produced.%	Weight	2	56	1234
12	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	54	1231
13	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	54	1230
14	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	23	1233
15	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	23	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	61	1127
Below than World Average-
1	HIV Infections (Per 1000)	People Per 1,000	0	119	1235
2	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	118	1232
3	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	113	1233
4	Nurses to doctor ratio	Ratio	46	113	1230
5	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	20	110	1233
6	#Dentists	# People	13,328	86	1235
7	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	78	1230
8	Dentist to doctor ratio	Ratio	3	73	1234
9	Total Nursing	# People	163,061	69	1235
10	Nurses(per 10000)	People per 10000	164,032	69	1230
11	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	62	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	66	1125
2	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	70	1125
3	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	71	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	130	1230
2	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	126	1231
3	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	126	1230
4	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	120	1234
5	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	105	1230
6	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	102	1233
7	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	76	1231
8	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	59	1231
9	Total Labour Force (2023)	# People	20,409,734	59	1231
10	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	58	1231
11	Labour Force Participation	# People	14,659,929	57	1234
12	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	53	1232
13	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,511,199	52	1231
14	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	49	1235
15	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	49	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	117	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	127	1234
2	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	123	1230
3	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	117	1231
4	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	109	1232
5	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	97	1234
6	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	73	1232
7	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	73	1231
8	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	72	1230
9	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	71	1235
10	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	61	1230
11	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	55	1232
12	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	53	1231
13	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	42	1230
14	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	41	1232
15	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	37	1231
16	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	28	1230
17	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	21	1233
18	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	11	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	172	1230
2	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	145	1230
3	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	15	139	1230
4	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	14	137	1234
5	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	26	118	1232
6	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	30	109	1234
7	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	33	108	1235
8	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	95	1230
9	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	33	98	1234
10	Twitter users	# People	3,179,254	96	1230
11	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	55	1234
12	LinkedIn users	# People	6,064,509	55	1234
13	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	55	1233
14	Facebook users	# People	7,174,483	52	1230
15	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	52	1231

Sri Lanka Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Sinhalese	60.24 %
2	Tamil	17.08 %
3	Malay	0.22 %

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