Unemployed ''000 Persons
Household population, labour force, employment and unemployment. Thousand persons, annual.
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Data source: Department of Census and Statistics, Household Population, Labour Force, Employment and Unemployment (12 Aug 2026)
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About this series
- Source Department of Census and Statistics, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit Thousand persons
- Date range 2013 – 2025
- Last checked 12 Aug 2026
Checks: 2 recorded for this series, listed below. Compiled by Department of Census and Statistics, read from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
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- Name in the warehouse
- Household population, labour force, employment and unemployment: Unemployed ''000 Persons
- Read from
- CBSL statistical tables (Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
- Source page
- https://www.cbsl.gov.lk/en/statistics/statistical-tables
- Notes
- DCS compiles this; read from the CBSL workbook because the DCS release is PDF only (machine-readability override). The 2025 annual row of the CBSL quarterly workbook reads 329.0, but the four 2025 quarters average 335.2, which is what Economic and Social Statistics publishes. The workbook's annual row was not refreshed when Q4 was appended, so the ESS copy is canonical for this series.
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One vintage so far, published 12 Aug 2026. Revisions show here once a later release changes a value.
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LK.LAB.LFS.PRE2013.UNEMPLOYED.A
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.
- Error in the source2025
This series reads 329; the same figure from the other source reads 335.2.
Two agencies: 329 and 335.248, difference −6.248.
LK.LAB.LFS.UNEMPLOYED.A: the Economic and Social Statistics copy differs from the canonical series
Settled: quarters average 335.2, matching the ESS copy against the workbook's 329.0.
- Error in the source2025
The source's own figures disagree (329 against 335.2); the value shown agrees with the rest of the source.
Resolved: 329 and 335.156, difference −6.156.
The 2025 annual row of the CBSL quarterly workbook reads 329.0, but the four 2025 quarters average 335.2, which is what Economic and Social Statistics publishes. The workbook's annual row was not refreshed when Q4 was appended, so the ESS copy is canonical for this series.
The quarterly workbook's annual row is stale; the ESS copy matches the mean of that year's four quarters and is now canonical.