Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) (World Bank WDI)
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Data source: World Bank, wdi_lka.zip (8 Oct 2026)
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- Source World Bank, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit Per cent
- Date range 1990 – 2019
- Last checked 8 Oct 2026
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- Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) (World Bank WDI)
- Read from
- World Bank: World Development Indicators and International Debt Statistics (World Bank)
- Source page
- https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka
- Licence
- Source: The World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- Notes
- World Bank, World Development Indicators, SI.POV.NAHC, Sri Lanka. Data source (as the World Bank gives it): World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are compiled from official government sources or are computed by World Bank staff using national (i.e. country–specific) poverty lines., World Bank (WB), note: Data are compiled from official government sources or are computed by World Bank staff using national (i.e. country–specific) poverty lines. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators, https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka.
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