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Sri Lanka

21,756,000

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-160K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+12.8%from 19.29M
Life expectancy77.7 years2024
Fertility rate1.95births per woman · 2024
Urban population20.5%2025
RegionSouth AsiaUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Sri Lanka is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1421.7%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6465.8%Working-age population
Ages 65+12.5%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate10.1births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.8deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+2.3births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-30.72Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Sri Lanka look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 24.81M in 2050—7.4% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202423.1M
  2. 205024.81M
  3. 210021.25M
Median age in 205040.2years
Births in 2050269.54Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050238.43Kduring the year
Life expectancy82.1years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19609.66M
  2. 197012.29M
  3. 198014.85M
  4. 199016.35M
  5. 200019.29M
  6. 201020.88M
  7. 202021.92M
  8. 202521.76M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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