Sri Lanka
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
- Region
- Asia · Southern Asia
- Capital
- Colombo
- Population
- 21,756,000 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currency
- Sri Lankan rupee (LKR)
- Official languages
- Sinhala, Tamil
- Spoken languages
- Sinhala (official) 87%, Tamil (official) 28.5%, English 23.8% (2012 est.)
- Written scripts
- Sinhala, Tamil
- Area
- 65,610 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- IMF, SCO (dialogue member), WCO, WTO
- Borders
- India
Political stability
60 / 100
Economic stability
37 / 100
Population stability
38 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- garments, tea, precious stones, used rubber tires, rubber products (2023)
- Key imports
- refined petroleum, fabric, crude petroleum, packaged medicine, cotton fabric (2023)
- Natural resources
- limestone, graphite, mineral sands, gems, phosphates, clay, hydropower, arable land
- Luxury goods
- sapphires, Ceylon tea
- Primary route
- Indian Ocean services to Asia, the Gulf, and Europe via Suez
- Secondary route
- Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea feeder networks
The xin.bz view
- Sri Lanka is already intervening: the government approved converting 30,000 t of paddy stocks into rice for market release while providing drought assistance — the regional playbook of strategic inventories in action.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Tightening the World's Food Valves
India's 90.7M t grain buffer, early Philippine rice buying, Indonesia's B50 palm-oil pull, and Nepal's flood — governments now decide how much food this region releases to the world.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.