es):
5.8% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
22.4% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $3.34 billion
expenditures: $4.686 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)

Public debt:
104.3% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
rice, sugarcane, grains, pulses, oilseed, spices, tea, rubber,
coconuts; milk, eggs, hides, beef

Industries:
rubber processing, tea, coconuts, and other agricultural
commodities; telecommunications, insurance, and banking; clothing,
cement, petroleum refining, textiles, tobacco

Industrial production growth rate:
7.1% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
6.697 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 51.7%
hydro: 48.3%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
6.228 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
75,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Current account balance:
$-587.3 million (2004 est.)

Exports:
$5.306 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
textiles and apparel; tea and spices; diamonds, emeralds, rubies;
coconut products; rubber manufactures, fish

Exports - partners:
US 32.4%, UK 13.5%, India 6.8%, Germany 4.8% (2004)

Imports:
$7.265 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
textile fabrics, mineral products, petroleum, foodstuffs, machinery
and transportation equipment

Imports - partners:
India 18%, Singapore 8.7%, Hong Kong 7.7%, China 5.7%, Iran 5.2%,
Japan 5.1%, Malaysia 4.1% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$2.475 billion (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$10.85 billion (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$577 million (1998)

Currency (code):
Sri Lankan rupee (LKR)

Currency code:
LKR

Exchange rates:
Sri Lankan rupees per US dollar - 101.194 (2004), 96.521 (2003),
95.662 (2002), 89.383 (2001), 77.005 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Sri Lanka

Telephones - main lines in use:
881,400 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
931,600 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: very inadequate domestic service, particularly
in rural areas; likely improvement with privatization of national
telephone company and encouragement to private investment; good
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