Transport, Storage & Communication, value added at current prices (1996 base)
Value added by industry. Rupees million, annual.
Data source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Gross Domestic Product at Current Prices (31 Aug 2026)
Macro Lab · LK.NA.GVA.1996.CURR.TRANSPORT_STORAGE_COMMUNICATION.A · CC BY 4.0
About this series
- Source Central Bank of Sri Lanka, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit Rupees million
- Base year 1996
- Date range 1996 – 2002
- Last checked 31 Aug 2026
Checks: 1 recorded for this series, listed below.
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- Name in the warehouse
- Transport, Storage & Communication, value added at current prices (1996 base)
- Base year
- 1996
- Read from
- CBSL Economic and Social Statistics (Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
- Source page
- https://www.cbsl.gov.lk/en/statistics/economic-and-social-statistics-of-sri-lanka
- Notes
- CBSL Economic and Social Statistics, table 1.4, base year 1996 block. At factor cost: the table does not say so, but the Data Library's market-price GDP is 4-13% higher for every year of this base. The sector categories are this base's own and are not chained to other bases.
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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.
- Rounding1996
In the 1996 base year, constant and current prices should be equal; they differ by 1 (74,501 against 74,502). Compared with
LK.NA.GVA.1996.CONST.TRANSPORT_STORAGE_COMMUNICATION.A.Base-year change: 74,502 and 74,501, difference 1.
constant and current prices differ in the 1996 base year
Two 1996-base sectors differ by 1 Rs mn between constant and current prices in the base year itself (74,502 and 74,501; 159,751 and 159,750): the last digit of two separately rounded tables.