According to the latest Labour Force Survey report by the Department of Census and Statistics, 8,625,859 people from Sri Lanka's population aged 15 and above are outside the labour force, not contributing to it. This represents 50.6 percent of the to
When classifying the overall unemployment percentage by sector, it is recorded as 3.4 percent in the urban sector, 4.0 percent in the rural sector, and 4.8 percent in the estate sector. At the district level, the highest unemployment rate is reported from Hambantota, at 6.6 percent.
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