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Aaqibuddin
Aamir Ali
Waseem Ali
Muhammad Kashif
Jameel Ahmed
INTRODUCTION
6% 1%
10%
Buddhist
12% Hindu
Muslim
Roman Catholic
Others
71%
FACTS AND FIGURES
• Life expectancy at birth is 75.1 years.
• Children Mortality rate is 8 per thousand people.
• Maternal mortality rate is 10 per 100,000 live births,
• 94% of population use improved water resources,
• 92% of the total population use improved sanitation system, 88.7% of the population have
access to safe drinking water.
• 44.3% of the population have access to pipe-borne water.
• Adult (age 10 years and above) literacy rate is 95.5%.
• Pupil/Teacher is 18.
• Over 90% of the population goes for primary education at least.
ECONOMY OF SRILANKA
• Srilankan GDP in 2016 was 81.32 billion dollars.
• Income per capita in 2016 was recorded as high as 2759.2 dollars.
• prominent productions and industries of Srilanka are processing of rubber, tea,
coconuts, tobacco, telecommunications, insurance, banking, tourism, shipping,
clothing, textiles, cement, petroleum refining, information technology services.
• Srilanka imports textile fabrics, mineral products, petroleum, foodstuffs,
machinery and transportation equipment from different countries. all of it’s
imports worth $19.01 billion in 2016
• . Srilanka exports textiles and apparel, tea and spices, diamonds, emeralds,
rubies, coconut products, rubber, fish. All the exports worth $10.53 billion in
2016.
HISTORY OF
DEVELOPMENT
• The independence from the British commonwealth on 04th
February, 1948
• Trapped into one of the worst wars in the history of Sri Lanka
arising out of ethnic and racial tensions between the majority
of Sinhalese and Tamil minority in southeast in 1983
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURAL
CHANGE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
GROWTH
1987
AND DECLINE
1978-1993 1977
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There has been an increasing dependence on foreign loans,
foreign remittances and earnings from tourism.
• High fiscal deficits
• a large public debt
• a large foreign debt
• high debt servicing costs
• large trade deficits
SRILANKA’S HDI VALUE AND RANK.
• Srilanka HDI value for 2015 is 0.766 high human development category positioning
it at 73 out of 188 countries and territories.
ISSUES AND
CHALLENGES
EDUCATION
• More demand for education.
• Infrastructure of schools.
POVERTY
• Corruption
• Inappropriate people on higher levels.
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
• Socio-cultural barriers.
• less political representation in the parliament.
• The females have high education rate than the
male.
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