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Sri Lanka

President:Maithripala Sirisena
Prime Minister:Ranil Wickremesinghe
Capital city:Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (administrative), Colombo (commercial)
Languages:Sinhala (official and national language) 74%, Tamil (national language) 18%, other 8% note: English, spoken competently by about 10% of the population, is commonly used in government and is referred to as the link language in the constitution
Government
National statistics office

Population, persons:21,444,000 (2017)
Area, sq km:62,710 (2017)
GDP per capita, US$:4,065 (2017)
GDP, billion current US$:87.2 (2017)
GINI index:39.8 (2016)
Ease of Doing Business rank:111 (2017)

All datasets: H

H
- Human Development Report, 2018 Statistical Update
  
  August 2018
  
  Source: United Nations Development Programme
  
  Uploaded by: Knoema
  
  Accessed On: 20 December, 2018
  
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  The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of achievements in three key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices for each of the the three dimensions.