Sri Lanka Poverty Headcount
Sri Lanka poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 14.30%.
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Interpretation
Sri Lanka recorded 14.30% for Poverty Headcount in 2019, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2016, the indicator decreased by 1.70 percentage points, from 16.00% to 14.30%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 8 available observations (27.13%).
Across the five latest available observations (2006–2019), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 8 available observations, the low was 14.30% in 2019 and the high was 46.80% in 2002.