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Poverty Headcount / Sri Lanka
Population & Society

Sri Lanka Poverty Headcount

Sri Lanka poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 14.3%. Global.
COUNTRY: Sri Lanka
UNIT: percent
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
CACHE: live
UPDATED: 2026-07-06 05:11:11
Economy Data Rating
Sri Lanka · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
CCC
38 / 100
Fragile · limited data
Fiscal stability 2.9 / 25
Macroeconomic stability 5.1 / 20
External stability 13.3 / 15
Financial robustness 6.3 / 15
Structural stability 0 / 10
Future capacity n/a
Demographic capacity n/a
Method: Economy Data 7-pillar stability model with structural financial robustness adjustment. This is a transparent Economy Data heuristic, not an official sovereign credit rating. Data coverage: 41% of weighted inputs available.
Time range: 1990–2019 1990– 2019
1990 2019
Selected year: 2019 · Value: n/a 2019

Sri Lanka · poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines.

1990–2019
14.3 percent
16 percent
27.13 percent
60 selected year
max 8 6 4 2 0
1990 1995 2002 2006 2009 2012 2016 2019
poverty headcount rate reference line

Countries by poverty headcount

full ranking
Country Rate Class
Nigeria 56.2
Yemen 48.6
Afghanistan 47.1
Timor-Leste 41.8
Micronesia 41.2
Papua New Guinea 39.9
Kenya 39.8
Argentina 38.1

Interpretation

short note

This social and demographic indicator helps place economic development in population context.

Values should be interpreted together with country context, time range, source coverage and related macroeconomic indicators.

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Comparison

latest
China 0
India 21.9
Indonesia 9
Germany 14.8
France 15.6

Related indicators

internal links
GDP Growth NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG
Inflation FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG
Government Debt GC.DOD.TOTL.GD.ZS
Unemployment SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS
Current Account Balance BN.CAB.XOKA.GD.ZS

Source layer

planned

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Provider: worldbank · Indicator code: SI.POV.NAHC

Cache: live · Updated: 2026-07-06 05:11:11

Sri Lanka Snapshot

country profile
Population n/a
GDP n/a
Debt/GDP n/a
Inflation -4.76%
Unemployment n/a
Currency n/a
Region Asia
Income group Lower middle income

Sri Lanka Poverty Headcount: data context and use

This page is part of the Economy Data indicator system. It provides structured country-level economic data, historical series, rankings and comparison views for researchers, students, journalists and decision makers. The page combines indicator metadata, country context, latest available values, ranking information and source notes.

The selected indicator is Poverty Headcount for Sri Lanka. The data are designed for quick comparison across countries and for deeper interpretation together with related macroeconomic indicators such as GDP growth, government debt, unemployment, current account balance, exports, imports, population and inequality.

Keyphrase synonyms: sri lanka poverty headcount rate, poverty headcount data sri lanka, sri lanka poverty headcount statistics, sri lanka percent, poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines..