- ISO 3166
LK- Primary locale
si-LK- Currency
- LKR · Sri Lankan Rupee
- Region
- APAC · SA
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has 22M people, and 12M of them are online. Sinhala is the most widely spoken language at 68%, one of 3 languages CLDR lists here. Sinhala and Tamil are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to si-LK.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
12M
0%world median 81%100%
55% of 22M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$5,002
Higher than 34% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
82%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
3
Sinhala 68% · Tamil 15% · English 10%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
486
Very lowVery high
Low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers, so treat it as colour for a discussion. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
91%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against si-LK, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Other-Brahmic
Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
2026 බක් 21
Short: 2026-04-21
Time
18.30
Week starts Mon
Currency
රු. 1,234.56
1,234.56 in LKR · Sri Lankan Rupee
The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script