Resources
Data sources
Every number on this site comes from one of the publications below. Captions next to each figure name the publication and the period it covers.
| Publication | Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| SLTDA Year in Review 2024 | Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority | Short figures cited from the published Year in Review (updated file dated 20 April 2026 on the SLTDA media path; statistics are for calendar 2024, accommodation as at 2 January 2025). Not a bulk copy of the report. Display of named establishment lists was not confirmed and was not done. |
| SLTDA Monthly Tourist Arrivals Report, December 2024 | Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority | Monthly arrivals for 2023 and 2024, sourced by SLTDA from the Department of Immigration and Emigration. Page table and the December 2024 PDF (https://www.sltda.gov.lk/storage/common_media/MonthlyTouritsArrivalsReport-December-Final-2025-01-08.pdf) agree on the annual totals. |
| SLTDA Year in Review 2022 | Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority | Table 01 annual total for 2022 (provisional in the report). Matches the SLTDA monthly arrivals page for 2022. |
| SLTDA Annual Statistical Report 2019 | Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority | Highlights table, international tourist arrivals for 2019. Arrival figures are from the Department of Immigration and Emigration. |
| SLTDA Year in Review 2021 | Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority | Table 01 annual totals for 2020 and 2021 only. |
| CBSL Annual Economic Review 2024 | Central Bank of Sri Lanka | National-accounts tables. GDP by industrial origin is sourced by CBSL to the Department of Census and Statistics (base year 2015). 2024 figures are marked provisional in the report; 2023 is revised. |
| CBSL External Sector Performance, December 2024 | Central Bank of Sri Lanka | Press release dated 31 January 2025. Merchandise export table and tourism earnings estimate for 2023 and 2024. |
| Economic Census 2013/14 listing phase, non-agricultural activities | Department of Census and Statistics | Table 2.1.3. Listing in October/November 2013. Counts are establishments, not Registrar of Companies registrations, and they exclude agriculture. This is the latest district establishment table located; it is not a 2024 count. |
| Parliamentary paper on installed generation capacity, 2024 | Parliament of Sri Lanka, citing Ceylon Electricity Board generation mix | Table 2.1.2 Generation Mix 2024. Includes estimated rooftop solar. CEB Sales and Generation Data Book 2024 reports 4,648 MW and appears to exclude most rooftop solar, so the two totals are not interchangeable. |
| BOI Ready to Invest booklet, 14 March 2023 | Board of Investment of Sri Lanka | Project names, locations and land extents are taken from this published booklet. The booklet says information was collected from government institutions and may need verification. Investment values are not displayed. A copy hosted by a chamber was the file retrieved; the owner should confirm the BOI still stands behind each project before it is treated as current. |
Method
Figures are copied by hand from the cited table, checked against a second table in the same publication where one exists, and stored with the table reference. Percentage changes are calculated from two published values in the same release. Where no published figure exists for a slot, the page says so instead of estimating.
District establishment counts come from the 2013/14 Economic Census listing, the latest district table located. They are not current registrations.
Business listings
Listings in the business directory come from © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License. They are published as unverified. The listing database built from OpenStreetMap is available under the same licence through the directory API.
Some accommodation listings also cite the SLTDA accommodation list on the national Open Data Portal. That list dates from 2018, so it supports a listing but never creates one. DS divisions come from the Survey Department of Sri Lanka boundaries published by OCHA (CC BY-IGO 3.0). Where a profile shows an address, phone number or opening hours read from a public Google Maps page, it is labelled with that source and the date it was read.