Sri Lanka's households final consumption expenditure per capita (annual % growth) was 7.04% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 13.3 percentage points from -6.26% in 2020.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 7.04% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -6.26% | 2020 |
| Highest | 7.04% | 2025 |
| Lowest | -6.26% | 2020 |
| Average since 2016 | 1.53% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 1.72% | 2016 |
Over five years it is up 13.3 percentage points from -6.26% in 2020. Since 2016 it is up 5.32 percentage points from 1.72% in 2016.
What the numbers say
In 2025, Sri Lanka's households final consumption expenditure per capita (annual % growth) rose 1.69 percentage points on 2024 (from 5.36% to 7.04%).
Across the 8 yearly changes before that (2017 to 2024), the average change was +0.45 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.69 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 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 7.86 percentage points in 2021 and the biggest yearly fall was 9.45 percentage points in 2020. 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 15% 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 9th 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 | 7.04% | 2025 |
| World | 2.04% | 2024 |
| South Asia | 6.52% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 4.13% | 2024 |
Closest to Sri Lanka in the 2025 ranking
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 6th of 129: 7.53%
- Argentina — 7th of 129: 7.51%
- Uzbekistan — 8th of 129: 7.45%
- India — 10th of 129: 6.72%
- Viet Nam — 11th of 129: 6.67%
- São Tomé and Principe — 12th of 129: 6.53%
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. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.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 10 values
| Year | Households final consumption expenditure per capita (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.04 |
| 2024 | 5.36 |
| 2023 | -0.3789 |
| 2022 | 1.08 |
| 2021 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | -6.26 |
| 2019 | 3.19 |
| 2018 | 3.68 |
| 2017 | -1.74 |
| 2016 | 1.72 |
Households final consumption expenditure per capita (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Bangladesh — 5.28% (2025)
- Bhutan — -2.78% (2024)
- India — 6.72% (2025)
- Maldives — 7.09% (2024)
- Nepal — 2.5% (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$18.63 billion (2025)
- Manufacturing, value added (current LCU) — 5.61 trillion (2025)
- Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP) — 17.12% (2025)
- Industry, including construction, value added (current US$)
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Questions people ask
- What is Sri Lanka's households final consumption expenditure per capita (annual % growth)?
- 7.04% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2016?
- It is up 5.32 percentage points from 1.72% in 2016. The highest value was 7.04% in 2025 and the lowest -6.26% in 2020.
- How does Sri Lanka rank?
- 9th highest of 129 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in households final consumption expenditure per capita (annual % growth) unusual for Sri Lanka?
- In 2025, Sri Lanka's households final consumption expenditure per capita (annual % growth) rose 1.69 percentage points on 2024 (from 5.36% to 7.04%). Across the 8 yearly changes before that (2017 to 2024), the average change was +0.45 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.69 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 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.PC.KD.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs); National Accounts data files, Central Banks; 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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