Sri Lanka (sheet total) (Maha) [Total]

Paddy Sown Extent Ha. Hectares, annual.

786,734 Ha · 2025 (−1.7% on 2024)

Values

Latest · 2025786,734 Ha−1.7% on 2024

Period	Hectares	Change, %
2025	786,734	−1.7
2024	800,463	−0.8
2023	806,673	−0.7
2022	812,601	+4.7
2021	775,846	+0.7
2020	770,240	+2.4
2019	752,248	+0.6
2018	748,027	+12.1
2017	667,191	+23.0
2016	542,556	−28.2
2015	756,005	−2.2
2014	772,626	+18.6

Data source: Department of Census and Statistics, Sown Extent-Maha Seasons-1979-2025

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About this series

Source Department of Census and Statistics, compiled by Macro Lab
Unit Hectares
Date range 1978 – 2025
Last checked 15 Sep 2026

Checks: 1 recorded for this series, listed below.

Details

Name in the warehouse: Paddy Sown Extent Ha: Sri Lanka (sheet total) (Maha) [Total]
Read from: DCS Paddy Statistics (Department of Census and Statistics)
Source page: http://www.statistics.gov.lk/Agriculture/StaticalInformation/PaddyStatistics
Notes: DCS Paddy Statistics, Sown_Extent-Maha_Seasons-1979-2025.xlsx, district breakdown. Maha season, stored at the first calendar year of the split season per docs/conventions.md. Districts sum to the sheet's own 'Sri Lanka' row - see check_paddy_district_totals(). Not held elsewhere: the ESS/load_ess.py AGR.PADDY family is national-level only.

Source documents

Sown Extent-Maha Seasons-1979-2025DCS · – · 48 values

Vintages

One vintage so far, published 15 Sep 2026. Revisions show here once a later release changes a value.

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Source discrepancies

What the warehouse found when it checked this series: the same figure from two agencies, splice overlaps, published rates against ones recalculated from the index, and outliers.

Known gap1990
The parts and the published total differ by 78,227 (500,509 against 422,282).

Consistency: 500,509 and 422,282, difference 78,227.
Sown_Extent-Maha_Seasons-1979-2025.xlsx TOTAL: districts do not sum to the sheet's 'Sri Lanka' row
Sown_Extent-Maha_Seasons-1979-2025.xlsx, 1990/1991 column: Jaffna, Mannar, Vavuniya, Mullativu, Killinochchi, Batticaloa and Trincomalee are all literally 0 across Major/Minor/Rainfed/Total - the district-level Maha 1990/91 survey evidently could not reach these Eelam-War-II-era conflict districts - while the Sri Lanka total (500,509) still carries roughly a district's worth of area (78,227 ha, this check's exact gap) not reflected anywhere in the district table.