Cost of a healthy diet in Sri Lanka
A healthy diet in Sri Lanka cost Int$5.21 per person per day in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2017.
The latest value carries the source flag “Estimate”.
Cost of a healthy diet in Sri Lanka over time
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Sri Lanka
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International dollars (PPP) per person per day. Source: FAO, FAOSTAT. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Sri Lanka |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Int$5.21 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2024 | Int$5.03 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2023 | Int$4.89 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2022 | Int$4.87 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2021 | Int$4.27 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2020 | Int$3.65 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2019 | Int$3.70 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2018 | Int$3.81 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
| 2017 | Int$3.86 per person per daye (Estimated value) |
Flags: e Estimated value . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +3.6% from Int$5.03 per person per day in 2024.
- Since 2017, when it was Int$3.86 per person per day, the figure has changed by +35.0%.
- Among the 164 countries with data for 2025, Sri Lanka has the 39th highest value.
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2025 · FAOSTAT
Pesticide use
1.59e (Estimate) kg/ha
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Nitrogen fertiliser use
54.6e (Estimate) kg/ha
2024 · FAOSTAT
Agriculture share of GDP
8.4%
2025 · World Bank
Cereal yield
4,068 kg per hectare
2024 · World Bank
Agricultural land
48.8%
2024 · World Bank