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Sri Lanka

President:Anura Kumara Dissanayake
Prime Minister:Harini Amarasuriya
Capital city:Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (administrative), Colombo (commercial)
Languages:Sinhala (official and national language) 74%, Tamil (national language) 18%, other 8% note: English, spoken competently by about 10% of the population, is commonly used in government and is referred to as the link language in the constitution
Government
National statistics office

Population, persons:23,168,692 (2025)
Area, sq km:61,860
GDP per capita, US$:3,828 (2023)
GDP, billion current US$:84.4 (2023)
GINI index:37.7 (2019)
Ease of Doing Business rank:99

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- Human Development Report, 2023-24 Statistical Update
  
  March 2024
  
  Source: United Nations Development Programme
  
  Uploaded by: Knoema
  
  Accessed On: 10 April, 2024
  
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  Data Cited at: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, Human Development Data Center The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of achievements in three key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices for each of the the three dimensions.
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- World Development Indicators (WDI)
  
  June 2025
  
  Source: World Bank
  
  Uploaded by: Knoema
  
  Accessed On: 01 July, 2025
  
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  The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates

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