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Sri Lanka: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1981–2024 · 37 observations · unemp

2024
4.40%percent
Change on 2023
−0.3 pointsfrom 4.70%
Average, 2015–2024
4.69%10 years
Record high and low
15.9% (1990)low 4.00% (2012)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20244.40
20234.70
20224.70
20215.10
20205.50
20194.80
20184.40
20174.20
20164.40
20154.70

Sources

  • IMF International Financial Statistics1981–2024
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1990–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1990–2024
  • International Labour Organization2000–2022
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024

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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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