Sri Lanka has been lauded for providing good health coverage at a low cost despite having a modest per capita income. This article identifies the unique historical factors that enabled Sri Lanka to achieve near universal coverage, but it also discusses how this achievement is now being undermined...
including where to develop WTTx services, which users to target, and how to provide high-quality services. Detailed research on aspects such as Sri Lanka's broadband market, population distribution, per capita income, and data traffic distribution helped Dialog compile a ...
Average per capita income:USD827 per annum, highest among South Asia, SAARC i. e. India, Pakistan, Nepal, Butan & Bangladesh. Yet, Sri Lanka is a low-income country 35% of the 19 million people still subsist below the poverty line ...
The World Bank in a statement said it had classified the world's economies into four income groups, high, upper-middle, lower-middle, and low and upgraded economies on Gross National Income (GNI) per capita. The classification is updated each year on July 1. Accordingly, Sri Lanka inched i...
Purchasing Power: Per Capita—Total regional disposable income (income after taxes) divided by total regional population. Purchasing Power: Index—A measure that compares the regional disposable income (income after taxes) to the national average, which has an index value of 100. For example, if ...
WTTx deployment has narrowed Sri Lanka's digital gap with the world, introduced the nation’s people to a new dawn of broadband services, and helped it businesses hop on to the fast track to growth. Located at the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka is famous for the beauty...
The value for GDP per capita (constant LCU) in Sri Lanka was 434,810 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 453,302 in 2019 and a minimum value of 66,245 in 1961. ...
per capita income remains below the world average. India is developing into an open-market economy, yet traces of its past autarkic policies remain. Economic liberalization measures, including industrial deregulation, privatization of state-owned enterprises, and reduced controls on foreign trade and inv...
Sri Lanka’s economy faces several challenges, including high public debt, inflation, and a trade deficit. While the country’s economic growth rate has improved in recent years, poverty and income inequality remain significant concerns. The country has struggled with political instability, which has...
“Migration in Sri Lanka is driven by low per capita income, unemployment and/or underemployment, high inflation, indebtedness, lack of access to resources, instability and lack of trust in the system,” an economist said. Sri Lanka’s outward migrants had topped 300,000 by the third week of...