Sri Lanka

🗺 Sri Lanka metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

9 entries listed under Sri Lanka. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

Official languages

Tamil, Sinhala

Currency

Sri Lankan rupee (LKR)

Government

Republic

Legislature

Parliament of Sri Lanka

Constitution

1978, 12 amendment events since

Demonym

Sri Lankan

Time zone

UTC+05:30

Driving side

Left

Calling code

+94

Internet TLD

.lk, .இலங்கை

ISO 3166

LK

Established

1972

Highest point

Pidurutalagala (2,524 m (8,281 ft))

National anthem

Sri Lanka Matha

Facts via Wikidata.

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

⚠️ marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. 👑 denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Sri Lanka: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

Sri Lanka on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.

National Teams Champions

Every major championship won by Sri Lanka's national teams, newest first. 2 in total.

Sri Lanka

2014· 2014-04-06

🏏T20 World Cup

Sri Lanka

1996· 1996-03-17

🏏Cricket World Cup

Year	Date	Champion	Competition
2014	2014-04-06	Sri Lanka	🏏T20 World Cup
1996	1996-03-17	Sri Lanka	🏏Cricket World Cup

Domestic league portals that operate in Sri Lanka: 1 league.