Sri Lanka - Central government debt

Central government debt, total (current LCU)

The value for Central government debt, total (current LCU) in Sri Lanka was 8,503,200,000,000 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 25 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8,503,200,000,000 in 2015 and a minimum value of 310,781,000,000 in 1990.

Definition: Debt is the entire stock of direct government fixed-term contractual obligations to others outstanding on a particular date. It includes domestic and foreign liabilities such as currency and money deposits, securities other than shares, and loans. It is the gross amount of government liabilities reduced by the amount of equity and financial derivatives held by the government. Because debt is a stock rather than a flow, it is measured as of a given date, usually the last day of the fiscal year.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1990 310,781,000,000
1991 366,698,000,000
1992 405,558,000,000
1993 483,568,000,000
1994 549,292,000,000
1995 632,045,000,000
1996 709,320,000,000
1997 766,577,000,000
1998 908,001,000,000
1999 1,051,860,000,000
2000 1,218,700,000,000
2001 1,452,710,000,000
2002 1,669,280,000,000
2003 1,863,850,000,000
2004 2,139,530,000,000
2005 2,222,340,000,000
2006 2,606,590,000,000
2007 3,041,690,000,000
2009 4,161,420,000,000
2010 4,591,250,000,000
2011 5,133,370,000,000
2012 6,000,110,000,000
2013 6,793,250,000,000
2014 7,390,900,000,000
2015 8,503,200,000,000

Central government debt, total (% of GDP)

Central government debt, total (% of GDP) in Sri Lanka was 77.65 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 25 years was 105.53 in 2002, while its lowest value was 68.71 in 2012.

Definition: Debt is the entire stock of direct government fixed-term contractual obligations to others outstanding on a particular date. It includes domestic and foreign liabilities such as currency and money deposits, securities other than shares, and loans. It is the gross amount of government liabilities reduced by the amount of equity and financial derivatives held by the government. Because debt is a stock rather than a flow, it is measured as of a given date, usually the last day of the fiscal year.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1990 96.58
1991 98.48
1992 95.36
1993 96.80
1994 94.86
1995 94.65
1996 92.34
1997 86.11
1998 89.20
1999 95.11
2000 96.90
2001 103.22
2002 105.53
2003 102.27
2004 102.33
2005 90.60
2006 88.70
2007 84.99
2009 86.06
2010 71.59
2011 71.11
2012 68.71
2013 70.82
2014 71.33
2015 77.65

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance