Sri Lankan Stats (2024)

25/03/2021

අපේ මුතුන් මිත්තන් කිසිදා නොකෑ ආහාර

අතීත ලාංකිකයන්ගේ ආහාර සහ වර්තමානයේ අප ලබා ගන්නා ආහර අතරේ විශාල වෙනසක් තිබෙනවා. යුරෝපියයන්ගේ පැමිණීමත් සමග පසුගිය වසර පන්සියයක කාල සීමාව තුල ලාංකිකයන්ගේ කෑම මේසයට පැමිණි නව ආහාර සමගින් පෙර පැවති ආහාර සංස්කෘතිය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම පාහේ වෙනස් වී තිබෙනවා. එය කෙතරම්ද යත් යුරෝපියයන් රැගෙන ආ මේ අහාර වර්ග බොහොමයක් මේ වන විට ලේබල් වී ඇත්තේ දේශීය ආහර ලෙසය. අද වනවිට මිරිස් කරලක් නැති ආහර වේලක් ගැන සිතා ගැනීමටත් අපහසුය.
මේ ආහාර අපගේ අතීත ලාංකිකයන්ට මේ ආහාර රස විදීමට නොලැබුනේ මේවා ලෝකය් එක කලාපයකට පමණක් ආවේණිකව තිබූ ශාඛ වර්ග වීම හේතුවෙනි. යුරෝපීයයන් ඇමරිකානු මහද්වීපය ආක්‍රමණය කිරීමත් සමග මේ බොහොමයක් ශාඛ වර්ග ලොව පුරා රැගෙන යාමට අවස්ථාව විවර වුන. දකුණු ආසියාවේ කාර්‍යබහුල නැව් මාර්ගයක පිහිටි ලංකාව වෙත මේවා ලඟා වීමට් වැඩි කාලයක් ගත වූයේ නැත. එමෙන්ම ලාංකිකයන් මේ ආහර ඉතාමත් අභිරුචියෙන් වැළඳගත් බව් සිතිය හැක්කේ අපි අද වනවිට වැඩි වශයෙන්ම ආහාරය පිණිස යොදාගනේ මේ ආගන්තුක ආහාර වීම හේතුවෙනි.

28/02/2021

Genealogy site MyHeritage has unveiled a new AI tool that turns photos of deceased relatives into videos. The DeepNostalgia feature is powered by tech developed by Israeli tech firm D-ID. MyHeritage says it uses several drivers to animate the faces.

Here we used This AI tools to make video with few of Sri lankan pioneers.

Anagarika Dharmapala

20/02/2021

Computer Literacy Statistics in Sri Lanka – 2020

The birth of the Information Age which is also known as Computer Age, is associated with the Digital Revolution, just as the Industrial Revolution marked the birth of the Industrial Age. The Digital and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revolutions are twin revolutions. The rapid developments in ICT have greatly contributed in enhancing human living standards worldwide. The advanced capability of this technology facilitates with extremely efficient collaboration and access to correct, consistent and effective information, which is fundamental to manage the quality in total. In developed world, most of the key economically effective environments are increasingly ICT dominant. Timely and accurate information on use of ICT itself is essential for justification and proper direction of the Government efforts, private sector investments, to study the changing pattern of the demand for internet services and for continuous progress monitoring on ICT achievements. For this computer literacy data, can contribute immensely to an understanding of the demand and supply of skills in the global, knowledge based economy.

To cater the relevant data needs the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) has conducted several surveys on computer literacy in Sri Lanka. The surveys were conducted in 2004, 2006/07, 2009 and from 2014 onward a survey module is attached to Sri Lanka Labour Force Survey. From 2014 onward two separate bulletins are published on Computer Literacy. This bulletin reveals the major findings of the survey conducted in January to June in 2020.

Highlights :

# Almost one out of three person (aged 5-69) computer literated.
# Almost half person (aged 5-69) digital literated
# 22.2% of households owned desktop or laptop computer.

Definition for Computer literacy:

A person (aged 5-69) is considered as a computer literate person if he/she could use computer on his/her own. For example, even if a 5 years old child can play a computer game then he/she is considered as a computer literate person.

Definition for Digital literacy:

A person (aged 5-69) is considered as a digital literate person if he/she could use computer, lap top, tablet or smartphone on his/her own.

Source - Computer Literacy Statistics – 2020 (First six months)
Department of Census and Statistics

04/02/2021

Today Sri Lanka proudly Celebrates 73rd Independence Day. For the past 73 years, we faced many Challenges and grants. Decisions of leaders, the Rise, and fall of individuals, the influence of outsiders, global events, and natural disasters shaped our country to its present form. Here we listed 73 notable and important events that shaped our country throughout the past 73 years.

Details are gathered from various sources.

27/01/2021

USD and LKR , Premadasa to Gotabaya

The selling rate of the Sri Lankan Rupee hit Rs 199.00 against the US dollar on last few days, central bank data show. During the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, the rupee had hit a record low of Rs 200 in April – just two weeks after it started depreciating in March. Sri Lanka’s rupee has come under pressure from unprecedented excess liquidity, and domestic rupee rates are now lower than dollar yields, inverting forward premiums, which is discouraging exporters from selling dollars, according to market participants.
In 1989, When Premadasa began his tenure Exchange rate of LKR to USD were 40.00. Here We analyzed how this trend has developed over the time. we have separated the graph according to the ruler of the country in that period.

Source - CBSL

18/01/2021

Government Debt in Sri Lanka increased to 12874786 LKR Million in the third quarter of 2019 . Over the past decade Sri Lankan government debt has increased drastically due to various reasons.

Here We arranged few data to understand the “Height of the Debt” in Sri Lanka.

First We assumed Debt value as 12000000000000 Rs.
When it Convert in to Highest value Banknote of Sri Lanka (5000 Rs) Value is 2400000000 No of Notes.
Let's Consider Height of 100 Notes is 1cm, ( It is the common value for most of Banknotes in the world) We need 240000m of 5000 Rs Notes stacks.
Let’s find out how large is this value when it compare with the highest building in Sri Lanka, highest building in the World and the highest Mountain in the world.

Special thanks to Mr. Pandula Nayana Bandara for this brilliant idea.

09/01/2021

Key Findings of first ever Sri Lanka Tourism Expenditure Survey

The Tourism industry is an important segment of the Sri Lankan economy. The Recent trends of Sri Lanka’s Gross Domestic Production (GDP) show a significant role played by the service sector, which represents over 60 percent contribution to the GDP. Island economies such as the Bahamas and the Maldives secure half of their government revenue from tourism whereas in Sri Lanka it remains at the fifth place in terms of foreign revenue earnings. Thus, there is a significant potential to develop the tourism industry in Sri Lanka. This is the first ever sample survey conducted by the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) to measure the characteristics of the tourism industry separately to economy of Sri Lanka.
With the intention of measuring fluctuations in tourist expenditure, the DCS decided to conduct this survey. For the System of National Accounts framework, the data collected by this survey is invaluable in preparing Tourism Satellite Accounts(TSA), that estimate the impact of the tourism on the national economy.
The fieldwork of the survey started from 1st October, 2017 and continued till 30th September, 2018 using the same sample allocated to the Sri Lanka Labour Force Survey. For gathering information, recall-based interview method was used with a survey schedule. This report based on data collection on 25750 representative housing units covering the entire country presents the results of the Tourism Expenditure Survey (TES) done in 2017/2018, executed by the DCS.

30/12/2020

Oldest Schools in Sri Lanka.

Details for This list of Oldest Schools in Sri Lanka was gathered by after a thorough check in Various sources. Schools listed are as per the details available currently from various sources and there may be discrepancies of the information.

If you have a doubt about this list pls inform us with more details.

27/12/2020

Paddy Statistics –2019 Yala Season

The total paddy production in the country is estimated as a product of the average yield that is estimated through a sample survey and the extent harvested, which is based on a complete enumeration of all paddy parcels. Paddy is not cultivated in Jaffna District in Yala season.

🌾 Production

The estimated paddy production for 2019 Yala season was 1,519,475 metric tons. The highest production of 299,468 metric tons of paddy was estimated from Polonnaruwa District. Paddy production in Polonnaruwa District was accounted for 20% of paddy production of the country. The contribution to the total paddy production of the country from Ampara, Hambantota, Anuradhapara and Kurunegala Districts were estimated 19%, 11% , 9% and 8% respectively during the 2019 Yala season

🔽 Highest Production

Polonnaruwa - 299468 MT
Ampara - 283226 MT
Hambantota - 161070 MT

🔼 Lowest production

Colombo - 2054 MT
Nuwaraeliya - 2274 MT
Mannar - 4815 MT
🌾 Average Yield

The average yield of paddy estimated for 2019 Yala season was 4,896 Kg. per net hectare. The highest average yield of 5,726 kg per net hectare was reported during this season from Hambantota District. The average yields of Mannar, Polonnaruwa, Ampara districts are 5,514, 5,511, and 5,377 kg per net hectare respectively.

🔽 Highest Yield

Hambantota - 5726
Mannar - 5514
Polonnaruwa - 5511

🔼 Lowest Yield

Nuwaraeliya - 2715
Kalutara - 2857
Kegalle - 2882

25/12/2020

Most ancient symbol of Christianity in Sri Lanka - The Nestorian Cross Of Anuradhapura

People around the world celebrate Christmas today. Sri Lankan Stats would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas with peace, health, and prosperity in the coming year. Here we gathered some interesting information about Most ancient symbol of Christianity in Sri Lanka.

A symbol of a Cross attributed to this Apostle is the most ancient symbol of Christianity found so far, in Sri Lanka. It is the Cross discovered during archeological excavations in Anuradhapura. This was discovered in 1912 first by the then chief draughtsman of the Archeological Department Muhandiram P. D. A. Wickremasuriya.

The most conclusive determination of the cross's origins was made in 1926 by Humphrey Codrington, based on evidence contained in a 6th-century manuscript, Christian Topography, that a community of Persian Christians were known to reside in Taprobanê (the Ancient Greek name for Sri Lanka). Codrington wrote in his book, A Short History of Ceylon, that "about A.D. 500 we read of a Persian colony; a Nestorian cross undoubtedly belonging to this community is to be seen in the Anuradhapura museum". In 1954 the then assistant Archaeological Commissioner, Titus Devendra, dismissed the historical reliability of the Christian Topography and attributed the cross to the Portuguese dating it later than 1547. Academics however have since concluded that the Christian Topography is historically accurate. In 1984 an archaeological find at Manthai confirmed the existence of Persian Christians in Sri Lanka, including a seal with a Nestorian cross, with similar stylistic features to the Anuradhapura cross.

The cross is considered as a variation of the St Thomas Cross due to its similar shape and possible links between the early Christian community in South India and Sri Lanka. The Anuradhapura cross however has unique features when compared to other crosses. The three main elements that the Anuradhapura cross has in common with Nestorian crosses are: the "leaves" (with their upward facing fronds) at the base of the cross, which symbolize the "tree of life" (the vitality of the tree is accentuated by its fruit-like protrusions); the second element is that each of the arms of the cross terminate in a pearl. Pearls played a central theme in Syriac devotional literature and iconography. The third element is the base, which is a three-stepped pedestal. The three tiers symbolize the three levels of paradise, the three decks of the ark, and the three limits of ascent to Sinai.

The Anuradhapura cross was featured in the official logo of Pope Francis' visit to Sri Lanka. The Nestorian Cross of Anuradhapura is now housed in the Archaeological Museum there.

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anuradhapura_cross
http://archives.dailynews.lk/2011/04/22/fea32.asp

24/12/2020

In These Maps, Black Area and Red Areas have Same Population.

18/12/2020

Who is Kali ?

Hinduism is the product of 6000 years of contradicting and coalescing religious ideas, in which time is cyclical, the world’s an illusion, and more or less everyone is an incarnation, reincarnation, preincarnation, aspect, or avatar of someone else. For the most part, Hindu gods don’t have consistent, universally accepted relationships with one another, and even the most popular have seemingly contradictory myths.

# Brahman

The Ultimate Reality in the universe. it is the material, efficient, formal and final cause of all that exists. It is the pervasive, infinite, eternal truth and bliss which does not change, yet is the cause of all changes.

# Brahma

Brahma is the first of a trio of major Hindu gods called the “Trimurti,” which includes Brahma, the creator, Vishnu, the preserver, and Shiva, the destroyer. According to some sources, Brahma wasn’t the first god — Vishnu was. Vishnu created a vast primordial ocean, and then a hundred headed snake to float on as he meditated. Then, from Vishnu’s bellybutton emerged a lotus, and from the lotus emerged Brahma, and from Brahma’s meditation emerged everything else.

# Vishnu

Depending on the source, Vishnu is either one of the most important gods in the universe, or the most important god in the universe, or he literally is the universe, or (more likely) all of the above. One of the largest branches of Hinduism, Vaishnavism, holds Vishnu as its top god. He’s called the preserver (opposite the creator, Brahma, and the destroyer, Shiva) and his role is to keep the universe universing until it’s time for it to end.
While he’s often addressed as more of a concept than a character, Vishnu’s probably most famous for his avatars – that is, the times he took actual, physical, earthly forms to deal with actual, physical, earthly threats. But we’ll get to those in a second.

# Shiva

He’s often called the destroyer (alongside Brahma, the creator, and Vishnu, the preserver), but that might not mean what you think it means. Or — well, yes, he does destroy worlds, and returns everything to the formless chaos from which it emerged, but philosophically speaking that’s not a bad thing, because a) everything’s cyclical and destruction is required for creation, and b) he’s only destroying illusions anyway — the real, all-encompassing truth of the universe survives.
Shiva has a third eye, from which he can produce a laser beam made of pure fiery enlightenment. He’s used it to destroy demons, gods, things that annoyed him, and, in one story, millions upon millions of cows.

# Saraswati

Saraswati is a goddess of wisdom, learning, and the arts, and the wife/consort of Brahma. She’s often put into a group called the “tridevi,” opposite the trimurti, which is made up of the female counterparts of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. She’s also very old, showing up in some of the earliest Hindu texts as a goddess of water and purification.

# Lakshmi

Lakshmi, also called Sri, is a goddess of wealth and luck and wife to Vishnu. Her birth is the end of one of Hinduism’s great myths, the Churning of the Ocean of Milk.

# Parvati

She’s a goddess of love and devotion, beautiful, kind, fierce, harmony, marriage, children, and devotion. Parvati is the wife of the god Shiva. She is the reincarnation of Sati, Shiva's first wife who died during a yajna

# Kali

Kali is the chief of the Mahavidyas, a group of ten Ta***ic goddesses who each form a different aspect of the mother goddess Parvati.

Kali's earliest appearance is that of a destroyer of evil forces. She is the most powerful form of Shakti, and the goddess of one of the four subcategories of the Kulamārga, a category of Ta***ic Saivism. She destroys the evil in order to protect the innocent. Over time, Kali has been worshipped by devotional movements and ta***ic sects variously as the Divine Mother, Mother of the Universe, Adi Shakti, or Adi Parashakti. Shakta Hindu and Ta***ic sects additionally worship her as the ultimate reality or Brahman. She is also seen as the divine protector and the one who bestows moksha, or liberation. Kali is often portrayed standing or dancing on her consort, the Hindu god Shiva, who lies calm and prostrate beneath her. Kali is worshipped by Hindus throughout India and Nepal.

Source - http://www.veritablehokum.com/comic/the-hindu-god-family-tree and Wikipedia

15/12/2020

Southerners and Northerners in LPL - Lanka Premier League Finals.

14/12/2020

Undergraduate enrollment vs Postgraduate enrollment by academic programme and s*x, academic year 2016/17

Total Undergraduate enrollment

Male - 37.7 %
Female - 62.3 %

Total Postgraduate enrollment

Male - 49.8 %
Female - 50.2 %

Source : Department of Census and Statistics

05/12/2020

Highest Paid Players In Lankan Premier League 2020

The inaugural edition of the Lankan Premier League (LPL) began end of the last month. Big names such as Andre Russell, Irfan Pathan, Dale Steyn, Shahid Afridi, Munaf Patel, Sohail Tanvir, Angelo Mathews, Carlos Brathwaite, Colin Ingram, Lendl Simmons and Shoaib Malik among others were to participating in the LPL T20. But some of these players are missing in action for this year due to various reasons.

Here are the earnings of players in the ongoing Lankan Premier League.

USD 40,000:

Sudeep Tyagi, Hazratullah Zazai, Manprith Singh, Sohaib Malik, Niroshan Dickwella, Danushka Gunathilaka, Kusal Mendis, IsuruUdana, Avishka Fernando

USD 25,000:

Samith Patel, Mohammad Amir, Johnson Charles, Uzman Shinwari, Lahiru Kumara, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Nuwan Pradeep, Dinesh Chandimal, Dhananjaya de Silva, Oshada Fernando, Akila Dananjaya, Seekkuge Prasanna, Amila Aponso, Suranga Lakmal, Kasun Rajitha, Milinda Siriwardana, Asela Gunarathne, Ashan Priyanjan, Binura Fernando

USD 15,000:

Brendon Taylor, Safraz Ahamed, Naveen-ul-Haq, Raveendrapal Singh, Paul Sterling, Azam Khan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Qais Ahmad, Kyle Abbot, Lahiru Madushanka, Lakshan Sandakan, Kamindu Mendis, Dushmantha Chameera, Duanne Oliver, Upul Tharanga, Shehan Jayasooriya, Dilruwan Perera, Jeffrey Vandersay, Chathuranga de Silva, Angelo Perera, Asitha Fernando, Priyamal Perera, Thikshila de Silva, Minod Bhanuka, Ramesh Mendis, Nuwan Thushara, Kavishka Anjula, Tharindu Kaushal, Mahesh Theekshana, Pulina Tharanga, Mohammed Shiraz, Lasith Embuldeniya, Lahiru Udara, Charith Asalanka

USD 3,000:

Ashen Bandara, Dhananjaya Lakshan, Lahiru Samarakoon, Himesh Ramanayaka, Nuwanidu Fernando, Dilshan Madushanka, Chanaka Ruwansiri, Nishan Madushka, Kalana Perera, Kanakaratnam Kapilraj, Kavindu Naveeshan, Sahan Arachchi, Chamikara Edirisinghe, Tharindu Rathnayake, Thevendiram Dhinoshan, Sajindu Colombage, Duvindu Thilakaratne, Ishan Jayarathne, Navod Paranavithana, Yivakanth Viyaskanth.

02/12/2020

- Age of first s*xual in*******se by Sri Lankan Women.

The 2019 Women’s Wellbeing Survey (WWS) was Sri Lanka’s first national survey on violence against women and girls.

In This Research Most women identified that their first s*xual experience occurred as an adult, that is from the age of 18 and older (79.7%). For 29.5% of women their first experience of s*xual in*******se was in early adulthood, between the ages of 18 and 21 years. A small proportion had their first experience during adolescence (8.7%) or below the age of 15 (1.0%).

For women who have had s*x, most said their first experience of s*xual in*******se was something they wanted (95.6%). For 2.5% of these women they were pressured into having s*x when they did not want to or were forced to have s*x (0.4%). When looking at the nature of women’s first experience of s*xual in*******se by the age they were at that time, women who had their first s*xual encounter before at 18 were more likely to be pressured or forced to have done so (e.g. 7.3% of girls younger than 15 were forced and 12.1% did not want to but were coerced or pressured)

27/11/2020

LPL - Lanka Premier League Team Jaffna Stallions Sri Lankan Players and Where they coming from.

26/11/2020

Know your LPL - Lanka Premier League Team.

Here we drew boundaries to find out Closest LPL Team for every part of the Island. There are two interesting intersections.
Kandy and Dambulla has the largest land areas.
This map only consider about Shortest air distance and no related to Road distances or Cultural interconnections.

ඔබට වඩාත්ම සමීපයෙන් ඇති LPL කණ්ඩායම කුමක්ද ?

24/11/2020

2023 වන විට ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ඉතා ඉහල මානව සංවර්ධනයක් සහිත රටවල් අතරට ඇතුලත් වෙයිද ?

2018 වර්ෂයේ නිකුත් වූ ජගත් මානව සංවර්ධන දර්ශකයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව 71 වන ස්ථානය ලබා ගත්තේ HDI අගය 0.780 ක් ලබා ගනිමිනි. දකුණු ආසියානු රටවල් අතර පළමු ස්ථානයටත්, ආසියානු රටවල් අතරින් 15 වන ස්ථානයටත් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව අයත් වේ.

වර්තමානයේ අප අයත්වන්නේ “ඉහළ මානව සංවර්ධිත” රටවල් ඛාණ්ඩයටය. නමුත් වසර 2000 වනවිට අප සිටියේ HDI අගය 0.687 ක් ලබා ගෙන “ මධ්‍යම මානව සංවර්ධිත” රටවල් ඛාණ්ඩයේය. එතැන් පටන් සැලකියයුතු මට්ටමේ මානව සංවර්ධන ඉලක්කයන් ජය ගැනීමට ලංකාව සමත් වුවත් 2013 සිට 2018 වසර දක්වාම අපට රටවල් ශ්‍රේණිගත කිරීමේ ලැයිස්තුවේ ඉහළට යා හැකිවූයේ ස්ථාන දෙකක් පමණය. මේ වනවිට ඉහළ මානව සංවර්ධිත ඛාණ්ඩයේ අපට ඉහළින් ඇත්තේ රටවල් අටක් පමණය. “ඉතා ඉහළ මානව සංවර්ධිත” රාජ්‍යයක් බවට පත්වීමට නම් ලංකාව HDI අගය 0.8000 ඉක්මවිය යුතුය. නමුත් වසර 2000 සිට අප ලබාගත් වර්ධනය අනුව මෙය එතරම් අසීරු ඉලක්කයක් නොවන බව පෙනී යයි. වසර 2015 වන විටත් HDI අගය 0.8000 ට වඩා පහලින් සිටි මැලේසියාව සහ බහමාස් රාජ්‍යයන් මේ වනවිට සිටින්නේ ඉතා ඉහළ මානව සංවර්ධිත රාජ්‍යය ලැයිස්තුවේය.

ආසියානු කලාපයේ රටවල් කිහිපයක වසර 2018 දි HDI අගයන් සහ ජගත් ශ්‍රේණිගත අගයන් මෙසේය.

හොංකොං - 0.939 ( Rank 4 )
සිංගප්පූරුව - 0.935 ( Rank 9)
තායිලන්තය - 0.765 ( Rank 77)
චීනය - 0.758 ( Rank 85)
මාලදිවයින - 0.719 ( Rank 104)
ඉන්දියාව - 0.647 ( Rank 129)

19/11/2020

Macquarie Group chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake became the first female to take the spot as Australia’s highest paid CEO
In 2019, The highest paid CEO in Australia and her family immigrated from Sri Lanka with just $200 to their names when she was 14 years old.

But how other Sri Lankan's Income in Australia. ..?

There were over 7.5 million migrants living in Australia. This was 29.7% of the population that were born overseas. One year earlier, in 2018, there were 7.3 million people born overseas.
Sri Lanka (140,000 migrants) continued to increase and is now in tenth place, dropping Scotland (134,000) to eleventh place in Overseas migrant by their Birth country.

Unit : AUD
Source : Australian Bureau of Statistics

18/11/2020

New Registration of Motor Vehicles 2010 – 2018

Source : Department of Motor Traffic

16/11/2020

During last few decades family planning assisted many couples to plan their reproductive lives. In Sri Lanka, the first state run family planning clinic was opened in 1937, but it was not continued.
In 1965, family planning was combined with maternal and child health programmes and three years later the Family Health Bureau (FHB) was established to coordinate family planning under the Ministry of Health.In the developing world, woman’s reproductive health mostly depends on government policies and programmes providing access to contraceptive methods. Direct support entails the provision of family planning services through government-run facilities, such as hospitals, clinics, health posts, health centers and through government fieldworkers. In Sri Lanka, free family planning services are given by primary care facilities and hospitals. Public health nurses and midwives provide maternal and child health as well as family planning services at the grass root level. Oral contraceptive methods and condoms are available without prescription from pharmacies and government and private sector facilities are available island-wide for other contraceptive methods.

There are considerable variations in CPR across district. Currently married women in the districts of Mannar (18 %), Vavuniya (33 %) and Batticaloa (32 %) reported the lowest levels of contraceptive use, while Kalutara, Matale, Galle, Polonnaruwa, Badulla, Moneragala and Ratnapura, all registered CPRs of 70 percent or higher Contraceptive use is very similar across wealth quintiles (values around 64 percent.)

However: the higher the level of education, the lower the use of modern methods. At the same time there is a higher preference for traditional method use among more educated women specially Rhythm.

Main Traditional methods,
- Rhythm
- Withdrawal

Source : Demographic and Health Survey - 2016, Sri Lanka

13/11/2020

Top Sites in Sri Lanka

1 Google.com
2 Youtube.com
3 Google.lk
4 Facebook.com
5 Hirufm.lk
6 Zoom.us
7 Aliexpress.com
8 Yahoo.com
9 Ikman.lk
10 Hirunews.lk

Source : Alexa

12/11/2020

Social Media Stats Sri Lanka - 2020

Average share values of social media usage in 2020 Sri Lanka

Facebook - 72.62 %
YouTube - 9.2 %
Pinterest - 7.24 %
Twitter - 5.73 %
Instagram - 1.78 %
VK - 3.07 %

Source : https://gs.statcounter.com/social-media-stats

11/11/2020

Level of Domestic Violence in Sri Lanka

One third of woman all over the world suffers from domestic violence by intimate partner. This is considered as a hidden problem in most of the women do not reveal about their sufferings due to reasons such as culture, fear of reprisal, and concern over children, shame and internalizing the violence. It is also an ever increasing burden to the health care services, social and economy of the country.

In Sri Lanka More women from the urban sector have experienced violence (20 percent) compared to women living in the other sectors (16 percent of the rural and 17 percent of estate counterparts). Experience of violence by the intimate partner among ever-married women varies according to the districts of residence: in Batticaloa and Kilinochci, the districts with the highest prevalence, half of the women indicated to be affected by violence from their intimate partner. Figure 13.2 shows clearly the highest domestic violence prevails in Northern and Eastern provinces. In c ontrast, in Hambantota, Anuradhapura and Monaragala, the districts with the lowest prevalence, less than eight percent indicated to be affected by domestic violence by an intimate
partner.

Demographic and Health Survey - 2016, Sri Lanka

http://www.statistics.gov.lk/Health/StaticalInformation/DemographicAndHealthSurveyReport-2016-Chapter13

10/11/2020

Estimation of drug use population in Sri Lanka.

- Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug, with a prevalence of 1.9 % of the total population of above 14 years. An estimated 301,898 persons are cannabis users.

- An estimated 92,540 or 0.6 % of population of above 14 years are he**in users in Sri Lanka.

- He**in use among male population (above 14 years) is 1.2% and among female population (above 14 years) is 0.017 per cent.

- Approximately 0.2% of total population (above 14 years) are abuse any pharmaceutical drug.

- Polly drug use is common among drug users.
 An estimated 70,862 or 77 % are regular he**in users and 178,643 are regular cannabis users in Sri Lanka.

- An estimated 39.4 % and 31.1 % of male population (above 14 years) are alcohol and cigarette users respectively.

- The highest prevalence of drug use was found in Western province and Colombo district.

Source : National Prevalence Survey on Drug Use 2019

09/11/2020

Most Respected Entitles in Sri Lanka 2020
According to LMD

For a record 15th year, John Keells Holdings (JKH) is perceived as being the Most Respected entity in Sri Lanka thanks to garnering the highest number of votes (1,125). It is followed by Commercial Bank of Ceylon (ComBank), MAS Holdings, Hayleys and Dialog Axiata.

1. John Keell Holdings
2. Commercial Bank of Ceylon
3. MAS Holdings
4. Hayleys
5. Dialox Axiata
6. Sampath Bank
7. Softlogic Holdings
8. LOLC Holdings
9. Unilever Sri Lanka
10. Brandix Lanka

Source - https://lmd.lk/most-respected-2020/

09/11/2020

O/L vs A/L in 2019

O/L and A/L performance by students in each district for year 2019.
Very high performance of O/L in southern belt much difference with their A/L performance. while Western area relatively perform well in both O/L and A/L

Source : R&D Branch NETS, Department of Examination

08/11/2020

When Provinces were adjusted to equalize their population densities.

- Western province, Smallest Province of Sri lanka would be the Largest province.

- Nothern Province would become the Smallest

- North Central Province, Largest Province of Sri lanka would be the Second smallest province.

- North Western province has the lowest deviation from its existing size.

08/11/2020

Total Income & Food Ratio (Food and Drink / Household Income)

Let's Look at how Sri Lankan's Expenditures on Food and Drinks for the period of last 35 years. As Household income gradually rising Sri lankan's expenditures of Food and beverages also rising gradually due to the inflation. But how about their spending ratio on foods ?

As we can see in the graph, part of the expenditures in foods in to household income has gradually become low for the past 35 years.

Source : Central Bank of Sri lanka

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