Poverty headcount ratio
District poverty headcount ratios across seven Household Income and Expenditure Survey periods from 1995/96 to 2019.
- Records
- 182
- Vintage
- 1995/96–2019
- Last checked
- 31 August 2026
- Published by
- GovernmentDepartment of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka
What this dataset contains
The Department of Census and Statistics table provides one poverty headcount ratio per geography and survey period. The platform preserves excluded observations as null rather than filling them.
How it is used here
The chart compares the 2019 district ratios, the latest completed series in this dataset.
What it cannot tell you
The latest observation is pre-crisis and is not a current poverty estimate. Northern and Eastern provinces were excluded from the first four survey periods, and the 2019 poverty line was adjusted from the 2012/13 basis using NCPI.