Unemployment / Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Unemployment
Sri Lanka unemployment data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 4.01%.
COUNTRY: Sri Lanka
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-08-31 05:08:45
GM ECONOMY RATING
Sri Lanka · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
46 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
1.1 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
17.0 / 20
External stability
6.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
12.0 / 15
Future capacity
5.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
0.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Sri Lanka · unemployment data as percent of GDP.
Latest
4.01%
Previous
4.24%
Range avg.
4.49%
Rank
67
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CountrySri Lanka
IndicatorUnemployment
4.01%2025 · Rank 67
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Sri Lanka recorded 4.01% for Unemployment in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.23 percentage points, from 4.24% to 4.01%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (4.49%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 4.01% in 2025 and the high was 5.36% in 2020.
Comparison
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