Key data points
Last release
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Observation period
Q2 2024
Next release
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Forecast
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Highest
16.60 % on Jun 30, 1992
Lowest
3.70 % on Dec 31, 2013
About Sri Lanka unemployment rate
In Sri Lanka, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To calculate Sri Lanka unemployment rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever Sri Lanka unemployment rate is 3.70%.
The highest figure Sri Lanka unemployment rate has ever reached is 16.60%.
Last quarter Sri Lanka unemployment rate was 4.70%, and the quarter before that it amounted to 4.50%.