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Sri Lanka
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)
Classified as: place
Summary
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.
Location on a map: [7°0′N, 81°0′E]
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Environment
Sri Lanka is one of the countries in Asia, countries in Southern Asia and 194 countries in our database.
- Agricultural land: 28,120.00 km²
- Alternative and nuclear energy: 3.43 % of total energy use
- Carbon dioxide emissions (co2): 18.54 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: 21,098 km²
- Fossil fuel energy consumption: 50.55 % of total
- Greenhouse gas emissions (co2, ch4, n2o, hfcs, pfcs, sf6): 38.80 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Median age: 29.00
- Methane emissions: 17.83 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Nitrous oxide emissions: 1.95 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Female population: 11,428,453 people
- Male population: 10,608,547 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
Geographical distribution of cities in Sri Lanka by population
Cities in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical fertility rate in Sri Lanka
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Relationship between fertility rate and median age in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical forest area in Sri Lanka
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Evolution of historical fossil fuel energy consumption in Sri Lanka
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Evolution of historical other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in Sri Lanka
Relationship between other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 and urban land area in Sri Lanka
Relationship between other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 and urban population in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical land area in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical median age in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical methane emissions in Sri Lanka
Relationship between methane and nitrous oxide emissions in Sri Lanka
Relationship between methane emissions and population in Sri Lanka
Relationship between methane emissions and rural population in Sri Lanka
Relationship between methane emissions and other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in Sri Lanka
Relationship between methane emissions and urban land area in Sri Lanka
Relationship between methane emissions and urban population in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical nitrous oxide emissions in Sri Lanka
Relationship between nitrous oxide emissions and population in Sri Lanka
Relationship between nitrous oxide emissions and other greenhouse gas emissions in Sri Lanka
Relationship between urban land area and nitrous oxide emissions in Sri Lanka
Relationship between urban population and nitrous oxide emissions in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical population in Sri Lanka
Relationship between urban land area and population in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical female population in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical male population in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical renewable energy consumption in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical rural land area in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical rural population in Sri Lanka
Relationship between rural population and urban land area in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical urban land area in Sri Lanka
Relationship between urban land area and urban population in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical urban population in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters in Sri Lanka
Relationship between population and date in Sri Lanka
Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6) in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical agricultural land in Sri Lanka
Relationship between agricultural land and methane emissions in Sri Lanka
Relationship between agricultural land and nitrous oxide emissions in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical alternative and nuclear energy in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in Sri Lanka
Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and GDP in Sri Lanka
Relationship between carbon dioxide and methane emissions in Sri Lanka
Relationship between carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions in Sri Lanka
Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and urban land area in Sri Lanka
Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and urban population in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical access to electricity in Sri Lanka
Relationship between access to electricity and birth rate in Sri Lanka
Relationship between access to electricity and fertility rate in Sri Lanka
Relationship between access to electricity and life expectancy at birth in Sri Lanka
Distribution of sites in Sri Lanka by inscription year
Relationship between access to electricity and renewable energy consumption in Sri Lanka
Relationship between access to electricity and self-employed workers in Sri Lanka
Relationship between access to electricity and vulnerable employment in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical electricity production from coal sources in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical electricity production from natural gas sources in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical electricity production from hydroelectric sources in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical electricity production from nuclear sources in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical electricity production from oil sources in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric, in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical net energy imports in Sri Lanka
Geographical distribution of sites in Sri Lanka by area
Sites in Sri Lanka
Proportion of transboundary sites in Sri Lanka
Geographical distribution of wildfires in Sri Lanka by mean width
Wildfires in Sri Lanka
Relationship between mean length and mean width of wildfires in Sri Lanka
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Politics
- 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: 50.11 % of population
- Military expenditure: 1.43 % of GDP
- Net migration: -77,495 people
- Press freedom: 1.97
- Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 5.33 %
Evolution of historical armed forces personnel in Sri Lanka
Relationship between methane emissions and armed forces personnel in Sri Lanka
Relationship between armed forces personnel and nitrous oxide emissions in Sri Lanka
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Relationship between rural population and armed forces personnel in Sri Lanka
Relationship between armed forces personnel and other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in Sri Lanka
Relationship between urban land area and armed forces personnel in Sri Lanka
Relationship between urban population and armed forces personnel in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical individuals using the Internet in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical military expenditure in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical net migration in Sri Lanka
Evolution of the historical proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments in Sri Lanka
Political parties in Sri Lanka
Distribution of politicians from Sri Lanka by birth year
Proportion of politicians per gender in Sri Lanka
Politicians from Sri Lanka
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Business
- Central government debt: 73.51 % of GDP
- Expense: 15.74 % of GDP
- Gdp: 84,356,860,421.13 current US$
- Inflation: 16.54 annual %
- Self-employed workers: 42.15 % of total employment
- Tax revenue: 7.28 % of GDP
- Unemployment: 6.36 % of total labor force
- Vulnerable employment: 39.65 % of total employment
Proportion of revenue types by company in Sri Lanka
Distribution of companies founded in Sri Lanka by year
Proportion of CEOs per gender in Sri Lanka
Companies from Sri Lanka
Proportion of employee types in companies from Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical central government debt in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical expense in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical GDP in Sri Lanka
Relationship between GDP and other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical inflation in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical proportion of self-employed workers in Sri Lanka
Relationship between self-employment and vulnerable employment in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical tax revenue in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical unemployment in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical vulnerable employment in Sri Lanka
Exchanges in Sri Lanka
Proportion of shops per country in Sri Lanka
Shops in Sri Lanka
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Health
- 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
Evolution of historical death rate in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical birth rate in Sri Lanka
Relationship between birth rate and fertility rate in Sri Lanka
Relationship between birth rate and life expectancy at birth in Sri Lanka
Relationship between birth rate and proportion of self-employed workers in Sri Lanka
Relationship between birth rate and vulnerable employment in Sri Lanka
Relationship between birth rate and median age in Sri Lanka
Relationship between death rate and life expectancy at birth in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical health expenditure per capita in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical health expenditure in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical incidence of HIV in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical hospital beds in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical life expectancy at birth in Sri Lanka
Relationship between life expectancy and the proportion of self-employed workers in Sri Lanka
Relationship between life expectancy and vulnerable employment in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical suicide mortality rate in Sri Lanka
Diseases in Sri Lanka
Distribution of diseases by first founded year in Sri Lanka
Proportion of diseases in Sri Lanka by mortality rate
Distribution of diseases in Sri Lanka by start date
Evolution of historical cases in Sri Lanka
Evolution of historical deaths in Sri Lanka
Relationship between cases and deaths in Sri Lanka
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Sports
Distribution of athletes from Sri Lanka by birth year
Proportion of athletes per gender in Sri Lanka
Athletes from Sri Lanka
Proportion of competitions per city in Sri Lanka
Competitions in Sri Lanka
Proportion of competitions per country in Sri Lanka
Distribution of competitions in Sri Lanka by start date
Proportion of medals won by Sri Lanka in the Olympics
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Culture
Artists from Sri Lanka
Distribution of artists from Sri Lanka by birth year
Proportion of artists per gender in Sri Lanka
Geographical distribution of museums in Sri Lanka by visitors
Museums in Sri Lanka
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Research
Geographical distribution of universities in Sri Lanka by total students
Distribution of universities in Sri Lanka per foundation year
Universities in Sri Lanka
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In literature
There are 410 books written about Sri Lanka in the database
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This dashboard is based on data from: SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
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