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Sri Lanka: Gross capital formation (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · inv_GDP

2025
30.3%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+3.4 pointsfrom 27.0%
Average, 2016–2025
32.7%10 years
Record high and low
41.4% (2012)low 12.3% (1954)

Gross capital formation (% of GDP)

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Percent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202530.3
202427.0
202324.6
202227.3
202136.7
202033.0
201934.1
201838.1
201739.7
201636.5

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Sri Lanka documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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