The 'Economic and Social Statistics of Sri Lanka – 2016' an annual publication of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, is now available for public access. The publication contains economic and social indicators of Sri Lanka in the areas of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), agriculture, industry, external trade and finance, government finance, banking and financial institutions, money and capital markets, prices and wages, labour force, transportation, education, health, telecommunication services, population, climate and selected information on economic and social indicators of other countries. In addition, information on living conditions, poverty and household characteristics in Sri Lanka from Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) conducted by the Department of Census and Statistics also available in the publication. Further, it includes disaggregated information at the provincial level on key economic variables.

Provincial Gross Domestic Product (PGDP) for 2015 has been computed by the Statistics Department of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), based on the disaggregation of the rebased series of National Accounts estimates (2010 constant prices) by the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS)1. In the estimation of PGDP, the value of each line item in GDP (base year 2010) is apportioned using relevant indicators at provincial level.

The Sri Lankan economy reached an annual real GDP growth of 4.8 per cent in 2015, while the nominal GDP recorded a growth of 7.0 per cent to Rs. 11,183 billion. The disaggregation of nominal GDP across provinces is given in Table 1.

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