Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's Economy at a Glance
The rates and prices that shape every financial decision — inflation, interest rates, the rupee and the stock market, updated weekly from the Central Bank. The context behind the numbers on every comparison page here.
Year-on-year consumer price inflation. Your savings have to beat this just to hold their value.
The Central Bank's overnight policy rate — the anchor every other rate moves with. Falling signals cheaper borrowing ahead.
Average weighted prime lending rate — the index floating-rate loans are priced against.
Risk-free government yield — the floor your deposits should clear.
Rupees to buy one US dollar (bank rate). A higher number means a weaker rupee.
Colombo Stock Exchange All Share Price Index.
History
Cost of living — inflation
See real (after-inflation) FD returns →Year-on-year consumer price inflation. Your savings have to beat this just to hold their value.
Interest rates
Compare loan rates →The Central Bank's policy rate and the market-average benchmarks every bank prices against.
Treasury-bill yields
Treasury-bill board →Government T-bill yields by tenor — the risk-free benchmark your deposits should clear.
The rupee (USD / LKR)
Compare bank exchange rates →Rupees to buy one US dollar (Central Bank reference rate). A higher number means a weaker rupee.
Stock market
Colombo Stock Exchange — the All Share Price Index and the S&P Sri Lanka 20 (different index scales; watch the trend, not the gap).
Source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka Weekly Economic Indicators (and the CBSL USD/LKR reference series for the rupee history). Trend arrows read from each indicator's point of view — rising inflation or a weaker rupee is unfavourable; a higher deposit or T-bill yield is favourable. This is a context dashboard, not advice.
The weekly macro series (inflation, policy & market rates, T-bills, the stock market) began accumulating recently, so their charts deepen week by week; the rupee chart carries full history back to 2005.