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Sri Lanka: The Heart of the Eastern Hemisphere                                  Your Destination for Timeless, Sustainable Investments






        Figure 4 : Historical Series Literacy rate (%)




         92.43



















          86.78
               1981     2001     2006      2008      2010     2016      2017     2018     2019     2020 2021


        Source: The World Bank


       With an average age of 33, Sri Lanka’s young,       The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has proactively
       educated population, along with its high literacy   managed monetary policy to stabilize inflation and
       rates, and strong workforce, make it an ideal       maintain a favorable interest rate environment,
       investment destination. Figure 4 demonstrates Sri   while the government has made significant strides
       Lanka’s consistently high literacy rates from 1981   in fiscal consolidation, aiming to reduce the fiscal
       to 2021.                                            deficit and manage public debt sustainably.












   INVEST IN TOURISM SRI LANKA                                                                                 6
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