Sri Lanka Poverty Rate

Sri Lanka poverty rate for 2019 was 53.30%, a 3.3% decline from 2016.
  • Sri Lanka poverty rate for 2016 was 56.60%, a 8.3% decline from 2012.
  • Sri Lanka poverty rate for 2012 was 64.90%, a 6% decline from 2009.
  • Sri Lanka poverty rate for 2009 was 70.90%, a 1.3% decline from 2006.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.