Despite recent claims by some researchers suggesting that Sri Lanka’s population is entering a phase of long-term decline—due ...

Sri Lanka’s estimated poverty (share of the population living on less than $3.65 a day) remains stubbornly high, affecting as ...

In my article “Is Sri Lanka’s recovery sustainable?” published in the Daily FT on 18 January 2024, I argued that Sri Lanka’s ...

Sri Lanka’s population is gradually increasing, though at a slower pace, the Census and Statistics Department has revealed. The Department, which completed the Census of population and Housing-2024, ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is warning that debt is the main factor of vulnerability in the population. The causes include the 2022 economic crisis, rising inflation, unemployment, ...

The debt situation among a majority of the population in Sri Lanka is yet in a bad condition due to poor financial literacy ...

The government ban comes into force tomorrow. Children under 16 are banned from begging, street trading and domestic work, ...

A 2001 government census (PDF) says Sri Lanka’s main ethnic populations are the Sinhalese (82 percent), Tamil (9.4 percent), and Sri Lanka Moor (7.9 percent).