By Rohan Pethiyagoda When the government of Sri Lanka published the National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my ...

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

The elderly population in Sri Lanka reached 3.6 million in 2019 which is 12.4% of the total population. Sri Lanka is one country in the world that has a rapidly aging population and is much above ...

Colombo, April 7 (IANS) The total population of Sri Lanka reported in the Census of Population and Housing 2024 is 21,763,170, an increase of 1,403,7. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

Sri Lanka is set to face higher demand for housing, health, food, education, employment, energy, water, transportation and infrastructure amid unexpected growth in population driven by a ...

In the mid-1970s, Sri Lanka embarked on a large-scale family planning initiative aimed at reducing the average family size. Now, nearly five decades later, the consequences of this effort are ...

Sri Lanka’s economy was valued at $85.2 billion in 2021, holding steady from previous years in spite of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism, one of its biggest contributors to earnings.

However the birth rate in Western European countries was also much less than the death rate. ”In Ireland the birth rate has doubled and the figures are similar to ones in Sri Lanka.” He said due to ...

The attacks, which included three churches where worshipers from Sri Lanka’s minority Catholic population were attending services, highlight tensions in a country where divides left by a civil ...