Sri Lanka Employment Rate
Sri Lanka employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 46.57%.
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Sri Lanka · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
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Interpretation
Sri Lanka recorded 46.57% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator increased by 0.03 percentage points, from 46.54% to 46.57%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (48.35%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 45.25% in 2023 and the high was 51.81% in 2017.