Sri Lanka - Investment





Sri Lanka: Investment

Mnemonic I.ILKA
Unit Mil. LKR, NSA
Adjustments Not Seasonally Adjusted
Quarterly 39.2 %
Data 2025 Q4 2,998,510
2025 Q3 2,154,113

Series Information

Source Department of Census and Statistics
Release Gross Domestic Product
Frequency Quarterly
Start Date 3/31/2010
End Date 12/31/2025

Sri Lanka: GDP

Reference Last Previous Units Frequency
Government Consumption 2025 Q4 618,595 564,538 Mil. LKR, NSA Quarterly
Investment 2025 Q4 2,998,510 2,154,113 Mil. LKR, NSA Quarterly
Nominal Fixed Investment (gross fixed capital formation) 2025 Q4 1,838,103 1,834,905 Mil. LKR, NSA Quarterly
Nominal Gross Domestic Product 2025 Q4 8,700,316 8,382,735 Mil. LKR, NSA Quarterly
Private Consumption 2025 Q4 5,653,910 6,000,849 Mil. LKR, NSA Quarterly
Real Gross Domestic Product 2025 Q4 3,414,142 3,329,200 Mil. 2015 LKR, NSA Quarterly

Release Information

For Sri Lanka, the detailed expenditure approach to gross domestic product.

Active:

  • National accounts framework: Partial implementation of UN SNA 1993
  • Measurements:
    • Millions of Sri Lankan rupees at constant year-2015 prices (Mil. 2015 LKR)
    • At current prices (Mil. LKR)
  • Adjustment:
    • Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
    • Seasonally adjusted at an annual rate (SAAR)
  • Native frequency: Quarterly
  • Start date:
    • 2010Q1
    • 2002Q1 for headline GDP

Predecessors:

  • At 2010 prices - 2010Q1 to 2021Q4 ("_10")
  • At 2002 prices - 2002Q1 to 2015Q4 ("_02")

GDP and its components are published as values, shares of the total GDP, and as percent change from the previous period. This allows a complete overview about the economy of Sri Lanka.

For final consumption expenditure, households-NPISHs are reported as a joint institutional sector.

Moody's Analytics supplements

For headline GDP(E) at current and constant prices, we back-extend by 13 years (2002 to 2015).

We construct intermediate identities:

  • Changes in inentories and acquisitions less disposals of valuables
  • Final consumption expenditure
  • Trade balance

For upper-level components we construct seasonally adjusted (SAAR) counterparts, using X-13ARIMA-SEATS.

Further reading

At IMF (SDDS):

  • 24 Mar 2020
  • 3 Dec 2020
  • 18 May 2023, Phillip Thorne - Moody's Analytics supplements.