Sri Lanka

President:Ranil Wickremesinghe
Prime Minister:Dinesh Gunawardena
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
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Population, persons:21,922,756 (2024)
Area, sq km:61,860
GDP per capita, US$:3,354 (2022)
GDP, billion current US$:74.4 (2022)
GINI index:37.7 (2019)
Ease of Doing Business rank:99

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