Sri Lanka Population
Sri Lanka population data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 21.76 million.
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Interpretation
Sri Lanka recorded 21.76 million for Population in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 160,000.00 (0.7%), from 21.92 million to 21.76 million.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (21.81 million).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 21.21 million in 2016 and the high was 22.18 million in 2022.