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Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka is a country. The capital city is Colombo, located in the Southern Asia region of Asia. It has a land area of 61,860 km², a population of 22,037,000 people and uses the currency Sri Lankan rupee. The President is Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Key facts

currency: Sri Lankan rupee
capital city: Colombo
region: Southern Asia
continent: Asia
land area: 61,860 km²
population: 22,037,000 people
political leader: Gotabaya Rajapaksa (President)

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central government debt: 73.51 % of GDP
expense: 17.98 % of GDP
GDP: 84,356,863,743.63 current US$
inflation: 16.54 annual %
self-employed workers: 41.81 % of total employment
tax revenue: 9.85 % of GDP
unemployment: 6.00 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 38.89 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 317,000 people
democracy score: 6.19
democracy type: Flawed democracy
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 12,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 51.20 % of population
military expenditure: 1.64 % of GDP
net migration: -28,011 people
press freedom: 1.97
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 5.33 %
birth rate: 13.78 per 1,000 people
death rate: 7.29 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 166.00 current US$
health expenditure: 4.07 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.01 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 4.02 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 77
suicide mortality rate: 14.00 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 28,120.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 3.43 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 20.52 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 33.71 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 45.28 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 17.82 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 3.19 % of total
net energy imports: 50.27 % of energy use
fertility rate: 1.97 births per woman
forest area: 21,067 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 50.55 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 38.40 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 28.80
methane emissions: 16.12 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 1.57 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 11,373,412 people
male population: 10,663,588 people
renewable energy consumption: 48.80 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 61,386.13 km²
rural population: 17,803,472 people
urban land area: 3,627.83 km²
urban population: 4,233,528 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 2.37 % of total population

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