Inflation ( CCPI)1.7% (June 2024)
GDP5.3% (1Q 2024)
Unemployment4.3% (4Q 2023)
3M T-Bill Rate9.14%
12M T-Bill Rate9.95%
2Y T-Bond Rate10.10%/ 10.20%
4Y T-Bond Rate11.60% / 11.70%
USD/LKR303/304
Reserves $5.6Bn (June 2024)
Cum. Trade Deficit $2,180 Mn (May 2024 cumulative)
Cum. Fiscal DeficitLKR 361Bn (April 2024)

Sri Lanka is the 4th best performer among Central and Southern Asia countries on Global Talent competitive Index 2019

Global IndexesDec 9, 2019
Sri Lanka is the 4th best performer among Central and Southern Asia countries on Global Talent competitive Index 2019
Sri Lanka seems to be stagnated at rank 82 from 2016 to 2019 in the Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2019. Most of the other peer countries have progressed during the last four years. Sri Lanka has progressed in Vocational and Technical Skills (or VT skills) , Global Knowledge Skills (or GK skills) and Retaining talent but dramatically fallen in Attracting talent in terms of luring foreign valuable resources and enable the talent expansion.

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