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News from Country Offices | 13 January 2022
ADB Vice-President Meets Sri Lanka President, Commends Vaccination Drive and Reaffirms Support
ADB Vice-President Shixin Chen met with Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 10 January and commended the government’s rapid vaccination program and other efforts to speed the country’s socioeconomic recovery from...
News Release | 17 December 2021
ADB Partners with John Keells Holdings to Boost Food Value Chains and Farm Livelihoods in Sri Lanka
The Asian Development Bank entered into an agreement to invest up to $80 million in John Keells Holdings PLC to boost the country’s food value chain and promote economic growth and job creation.
Photo Essay | 15 December 2021
Improving Learning and Upskilling of Sri Lanka's Youth for the Future
In support of Sri Lanka’s Education Sector Development Framework and Program to enhance youth employability, ADB provided a $200 million Education Sector Development Program (ESDP) results-based loan.

Asian Development Blog | 19 January 2022
For Pandemic Relief in South Asia, Look to the Diasporas
Millions of South Asians live outside their home countries. They could be key to region’s pandemic recovery.

Data: Sri Lanka ADB and Sri Lanka: Fact Sheet

Economic Forecast

GDP forecasts are based on ADB's flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook. Updated four times a year, it analyzes economic and development issues in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Poverty in Sri Lanka

Development indicators for Sri Lanka, including a selection of economic, environmental, and social indicators used globally to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

Results of ADB-Supported Operations

Results achieved are aggregate amounts of outputs and outcomes from operations reported in project completion reports and extended annual review reports circulated for the year.

Projects Cofinanced

Cofinancing operations enable ADB’s financing partners, governments or their agencies, multilateral financing institutions, and commercial organizations to participate in financing ADB projects. Additional funds are provided in the form of official loans and grants, technical assistance, other concessional financing, and commercial cofinancing such as B loans, risk transfer arrangements, parallel loans and equity, guarantee cofinancing, and cofinancing for transactions under ADB’s Trade Finance Program.

Sri Lanka: Cofinancing

Project Performance, 2000-2018

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ADB Projects in Sri Lanka

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Project Results

Project Result / Case Study | 26 May 2021
Helping Sri Lanka to go green
Mannar Island is a dry and barren peninsular in Sri Lanka’s arid zone where the climate holds great potential for renewable energy such as wind and solar power.
Project Result / Case Study | 23 March 2021
Solar power from the rooftops in Sri Lanka
Rooftops across Sri Lanka are harnessing solar power that is contributing to the country’s clean energy mix and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Project Result / Case Study | 29 January 2015
Clean Energy Keeps Sri Lanka's Lights on
Sri Lanka has been a success story in bringing reliable electricity supply to its people, reaching a 98 percent electrification rate.