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Outstanding Total Foreign Debt (Debt Statistics)

Central government finance. Rupees million, monthly.

Data source: Ministry of Finance, Weekly Economic Indicators - 16 October 2026 (16 Oct 2026)

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About this series

  • Source Ministry of Finance, compiled by Macro Lab
  • Unit Rupees million
  • Date range Jan 2021 – Jun 2026
  • Last checked 16 Oct 2026

Checks: 1 recorded for this series, listed below. Compiled by Ministry of Finance, read from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

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Name in the warehouse
Outstanding Total Foreign Debt (Debt Statistics)
Read from
CBSL Economic Data Library (wizard) (Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
Source page
https://www.cbsl.lk/eresearch
Notes
CBSL Data Library, subject 'Central Government Finance'. The debt data since April 2022 are highly provisional as the outstanding central government debt excludes several overdue debt service payments after April 12, 2022, the date of which the Interim Policy regarding the servicing of Sri Lanka’s external public debt was announced by the Ministry of Finance. These debt service payments include overdue interest payments of affected debt which deemed to be capitalised as per the Interim Policy. And it excluded the value of principal payments yet to be settled in relation to Sri Lanka Development Bonds from April 2022 till end 2022. Periods after this series' own source ends are read from CBSL's Weekly Economic Indicators, which prints them weeks earlier, and marked provisional: they are first estimates, dated by the issue, and the series' own source replaces them once it catches up.

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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.

  • Two vintagesMar 2023

    This series reads 11,433,286; the same figure from the other source reads 11,311,390.

    Two agencies: 11,433,286 and 11,311,390, difference 121,896.

    LK.FIS.CGF.OUTSTANDING_TOTAL_FOREIGN_DEBT.M: the series' own source against the WEI

    2023-24: the WEI's first figures, revised down by Rs 59-122 bn in the Data Library.