Sri Lanka's households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) was 6.26% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 12.02 percentage points from -5.76% in 2020.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 6.26% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -5.76% | 2020 |
| Highest | 37.72% | 1981 |
| Lowest | -6.34% | 1961 |
| Average since 2016 | 1.9% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | -6.34% | 1961 |
Over five years it is up 12.02 percentage points from -5.76% in 2020. Since 1961 it is up 12.6 percentage points from -6.34% in 1961. The World Bank has no value for 6 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
In 2025, Sri Lanka's households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) rose 1.48 percentage points on 2024 (from 4.78% to 6.26%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1988 to 2024), the average change was −0.03 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.49 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 29.4 percentage points in 1981 and the biggest yearly fall was 34.07 percentage points in 1982. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 4% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Sri Lanka had the 25th highest value of the 129 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | 6.26% | 2025 |
| World | 3.02% | 2024 |
| South Asia | 7.46% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 4.49% | 2024 |
Closest to Sri Lanka in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
This field includes expenditure on goods and services by the Household and NPISH sector for the direct satisfaction of human needs or wants, whether individual or collective. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 59 values
| Year | Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.26 |
| 2024 | 4.78 |
| 2023 | -1.03 |
| 2022 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 2.7 |
| 2020 | -5.76 |
| 2019 | 3.83 |
| 2018 | 4.73 |
| 2017 | -0.6051 |
| 2016 | 2.88 |
| 2015 |
Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Bangladesh — 6.57% (2025)
- Bhutan — -2.14% (2024)
- India — 7.67% (2025)
- Maldives — 7.45% (2024)
- Nepal — 2.39% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Sri Lanka
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$) — US$9.1 billion (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current LCU) — 2.74 trillion (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (constant 2015 US$) — US$6.84 billion (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (constant LCU) — 929.67 billion (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) — 8.36% (2025)
- Manufacturing, value added (current US$) — US$18.63 billion (2025)
- Manufacturing, value added (current LCU) — 5.61 trillion (2025)
- Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP) — 17.12% (2025)
- Industry, including construction, value added (current US$)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Sri Lanka's households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (annual % growth)?
- 6.26% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1961?
- It is up 12.6 percentage points from -6.34% in 1961. The highest value was 37.72% in 1981 and the lowest -6.34% in 1961.
- How does Sri Lanka rank?
- 25th highest of 129 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) unusual for Sri Lanka?
- In 2025, Sri Lanka's households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (annual % growth) rose 1.48 percentage points on 2024 (from 4.78% to 6.26%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1988 to 2024), the average change was −0.03 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.49 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.CON.PRVT.KD.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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