Around 1.12mn persons are engaged industrial related activities (except micro sector) in the country out of which 1.06mn are in the manufacturing sector.

Open market retail prices of food and miscellaneous items with respect to main markets in Colombo district.

NCPI for the Month of May 2017 was 121.8 and the year on year inflation has reported as 7.1%.

News Release the National Consumer Price Index (BASE 2013=100) :- May 2017

Sri Lanka has recorded 3.8 percent economic growth for the First Quarter of 2017.

PPI for all activities reported for April of 2017 is 122.9

Official Poverty line at national level for May 2017 is Rs. 4284.

Index of Industrial Production for April 2017 is 98.7

This report contains area and production of paddy cultivation and other ancillary information by district reference to the 2016 yala season.

The labour force participation rate for year 2016 is 53.8 percent and estimated unemployment rate for year 2016 is 4.4 percent.

The total number of employees in the Public and Semi - Government sector is 1,117,808 of which 54.9 percent are males and 45.1 percent are females.

The working child population in Sri Lanka is rapidly declining from 12.9% in 2008/09 to 2.3% in 2016.