- ISO 3166
LK- Main language + region
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.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
12M
0%world median 81%100%
55% of 22M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
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 spending power, not revenue.
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. 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 another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (si-LK).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
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