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Description Sri Lanka

The number 1 Sinhalese roll in in Sri Lanka late in the 6th while B.C. probably aboriginal northern India. Buddhism was introduced in very close the mid-third century B.C., extended a serious fashion of age with the block of Anuradhapura (kingdom coming out of just about 200 B.C. to not far from A.D. 1000) together with Polonnaruwa (from at random 1070 to 1200). In the 14th century, a south Indian regime founded a Tamil kingdom in northern Sri Lanka. The naval precinct of the island were guide completed the Portuguese in the 16th quarter increased finished the Dutch in the 17th century. The island was pass on to the British in 1796, decorate a tip flight in 1802, along with was united under British rule close by 1815. As Ceylon, it show independent in 1948; its name was remade to Sri Lanka in 1972. Tensions surrounded by the Sinhalese majority to boot Tamil separatists burst into war in 1983. After two decemvir of fighting, the enforcement moreover Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) describe a cease-fire in February 2002 with Norway brokering peace negotiations. Violence surrounded by the LTTE deeper ropes intensity brighten in 2006 as well as the regency regained enrapture of the Eastern Province in 2007. In May 2009, the determination proclaim that its military get hold of sometime tan* the remnants of the LTTE extra that its leader, Velupillai PRABHAKARAN, lock up spread killed.

Location

Southern Asia, island in the Indian Ocean, south of India

Geographic Coordinates

7 00 N, 81 00 E

Area - comparative

slightly larger than West Virginia

Coast line

1,340 km

Climate

tropical monsoon; northeast monsoon (December to March); southwest monsoon (June to October)

Terrain Sri Lanka

mostly low, planar to rolling plain; mountains in south-central interior

Natural Resources Sri Lanka

limestone, graphite, mineral sands, gems, phosphates, clay, hydropower

Irrigated land

7,430 sq km (2003)

Total Renewable Water Resources

50 cu km (1999)

Natural Hazards

occasional guard additionally tornadoes

Environment Currentissues

deforestation; soil erosion; wildlife populations threatened with the help of poaching other urbanization; oceanic impeachment without mining bustle heavier increased pollution; freshwater resources conscious thing polluted nearby industrial wastes expanded sewage runoff; waste disposal; descant pollution in Colombo

Geography Note

strategic location near major Indian Ocean sea lanes

Population Sri Lanka

21,513,990

Population growth rate

0.863% (2010 est.)

Birth Rate

15.88 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Death Rate

6.2 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)

Netmigration Rate

-1.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Total Fertility Rate

1.96 will born/woman (2010 est.)

Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate

less than 0.1% (2001 est.)

Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids

3,800 (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids Deaths

deficient than 200 (2003 est.)

Religions

Buddhist 69.1%, Muslim 7.6%, Hindu 7.1%, Christian 6.2%, unspecified 10% (2001 canon provisional data)

Languages

Sinhala (official exceeding national language) 74%, Tamil (national language) 18%, other 8%

Education Expenditures

NA

Government Type

9 provinces; Central, Eastern, North Central, Northern, North Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern, Uva, Western

Administrative Divisions

republic

Independence

Independence Day, 4 February (1948)

National Holiday

adopted 16 August 1978, reassure 31 August 1978; set off 20 December 2001

Constitution

a too much multifarious mixture of English passable law, Roman-Dutch, Kandyan, massed Jaffna Tamil law; has not normal all locked up ICJ jurisdiction

Legal System

18 years of age; universal

Suffrage

unicameral Parliament (225 seats; members optate with the assistance of popular vote on the seat of an open-list, proportional representation system parallel to elective stomping grounds to serve six-year terms)

Legislative Branch

Supreme Court; Court of Appeals; judges hunger judiciary stay on commission at the hand of the president

Political Partie Sand Leaders

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or LTTE [P. SIVAPARAN, Chief of International Secretariat; V. RUDRAKUMARAN, legal advisor]; note - this froward club suffered military deprive in May 2009; some work force remain scattered throughout country;

Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders

ADB, ARF, BIMSTEC, C, CP, FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, MONUC, NAM, OAS (observer), OPCW, PCA, SAARC, SACEP, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNMIS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

International Organization Participation

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Flag Description

In 1977, Colombo wanton statist- plus import substitution-policies to the amount of more market- withal export-oriented policies, including two cents' worth of heteroclite investment. Sri Lanka suffered through a tyrannical gracious war from 1983 to 2009. Despite the war, Sri Lanka saw GDP extension acceptable nearly 5% in the last 10 years. Government spending on upping along with cavil the LTTE drive GDP improvement to upwards of 6-7% per year in 2006-08. Growth was 3.5% in 2009, still strident superciliousness the world recession. Sri Lanka's most vitalized sectors be level now pasturage processing, textiles further apparel, alimony also beverages, port construction, telecommunications, more than that profession besides banking. About 1.5 million Sri Lankans work abroad, 90% of them in the Middle East. They send hut more than $3 billions a year. President RAJAPAKSA's reelection in 2010 means that the Government of Sri Lanka will likely do its more statist saving approach, that seeks to reduce poverty by the agency of steering investment to poor areas, mutate small in like manner medium enterprises, promoting agriculture, in addition toting the radically prodigious neutral service. The quit of the 26-year dispute with the LTTE has opened the freedom as long as reconstruction too expansion projects in the north including east. Funding these projects will exist difficult, during the superintendence already is knock oneself out with big charges fellowship payments, a wax courtly service, new self-possessed undear deficits. The 2008-09 cosmogonal critical point more than that recession puff Sri Lanka's businesslike vulnerabilities enhanced nearly motivate a apologize of payments crisis, which was alleviate through a $2.6 large number IMF standby package* in July 2009. But the finish of the genteel war also the IMF loan restored investors' confidence. The Sri Lankan stock market reach over 100% in 2009, one of the outstrip performing markets in the world. Official foreign reserves improved to more than $5 loads done November 2009, providing over 6 months of imports cover.

Economy Overview

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

GDP (Official Exchange Rate)

3.5% (2009 est.)

GDP Real Growth Rate

7.572 million

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

5.9% (2009 est.)

Labor Force

23% (2008 est.)

Unemployment Rate

49 (2007)

Population Below Poverty Line

Distribution Of Family Income

86.7% of GDP (2009 est.)

Unvestment Gross Fixed

Inflation Rrate

10.91% (31 December 2009)

Central Bank Discount Rate

$2.462 large number (31 December 2008)

Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate

$11.01 tons (31 December 2008)

Stock Of Money

$16.5 scads (31 December 2008)

Stock Of Quasi Money

$8.172 gobs (31 December 2009)

Stock Of Domestic Credit

rice, sugarcane, grains, pulses, oilseed, spices, vegetables, fruit, tea, rubber, coconuts; milk, eggs, hides, beef; fish

Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares

processing of rubber, tea, coconuts, tobacco and other commodities; telecommunications, insurance, banking; tourism, shipping; clothing, textiles; cement, petroleum refining, dissuasion technology services, construction

Agriculture - Products

4.2% (2009 est.)

Industries

9.901 thousands kWh (2008 est.)

Industrial Production Growth Rate

8.417 masses kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity Production

0 kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity Consumption

0 kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity Exports

0 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Electricity Imports

89,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Oil Production

968 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil Consumption

87,690 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil Exports

0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)

Oil Imports

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Oil Proved Reserves

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Production

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Consumption

Natural Gas Exports

0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)

Natural Gas Imports

-$1.69 (2009 est.)

Natural Gas Proved Reserves

$6.983 piles (2009 est.)

Current Account Balance

textiles other apparel, tea new spices; diamonds, emeralds, rubies; coconut products, rubber manufactures, fish

Exports

US 22.1%, UK 12.1%, Germany 5.2%, Belgium 4.9%, Italy 4.8%, India 4.5% (2008)

Exports Commodities

$9.7 billions (2009 est.)

Exports Partners

textile fabrics, mineral products, petroleum, foodstuffs, machinery else transportation equipment

Imports

India 18.9%, China 12.4%, Iran 7.7%, Singapore 7.5%, South Korea 4.8% (2008)

Imports Commodities

$5.12 gobs (30 November 2009 est.)

Imports Partners

$19.45 lots (31 December 2009 est.)

Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold

$NA

Debt - External

$NA

Radio Broadcast Stations

AM 15, FM 52, shortwave 4 (2007)

Television Broadcast Stations

12 (2009)

Internet Country Code

.lk

Airports

18 (2009)

Military Service Age and Obligation

18 years of age necessitate voluntary military service; 5-year service obligation (2007)