Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka Flag
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Sri Lanka National Museum
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Geographic

• Climate
• tropical monsoon northeast monsoon (December to
  March) southwest monsoon (June to October)
• Location
• Southern Asia, island in the Indian Ocean, south
  of India
• Geography
• Strategic location near major Indian Ocean sea
  lanes

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People

• Population
• 21,128,772 (July 2008)
• Age Structure
• 0-14 years 24.1 (male 2,596,463/female
  2,495,136) 15-64 years 68 (male
  7,019,446/female 7,340,809) 65 years and over
  7.9 (male 783,823/female 893,096) (2008 est.)
• Living with HIV
• 3,500 (2001 est.)
• HIV Deaths
• Fewer than 200 (2003 est.)

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People

• Risk of Disease
• degree of risk high food or waterborne
  diseases bacterial diarrhea and hepatitis A
  vectorborne disease dengue fever and malaria
  water contact disease leptospirosis (2008)
• Nationality
• Sri Lankan
• Language
• Sinhala (official and national language) 74,
  Tamil (national language) 18, other 8 note
  English is commonly used in government and is
  spoken competently by about 10 of the population

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Religion

• Buddhist 69.1
• Muslim 7.6
• Hindu 7.1
• Christian 6.2
• Unspecified 10
• (2001)

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Government

• Republic
• Captial
• Colombo
• Administrative Provinces
• 8 provinces Central, North Central, North
  Eastern, North Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern,
  Uva, Western
• Independence
• February 4 (From UK)

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Government

• Legal Systems
• a highly complex mixture of English common law,
  Roman-Dutch, Kandyan, and Jaffna Tamil law has
  not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

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Branches of Government

• Executive
• chief of state President Mahinda RAJAPAKSA
  (since 19 November 2005) note - the president is
  both the chief of state and head of government
  Ratnasiri WICKREMANAYAKE (since 21 November 2005)
  holds the largely ceremonial title of prime
  minister head of government President Mahinda
  RAJAPAKSA (since 19 November 2005) cabinet
  Cabinet appointed by the president in
  consultation with the prime minister elections
  president elected by popular vote for a six-year
  term (eligible for a second term) election last
  held on 17 November 2005 (next to be held in
  2011) election results Mahinda RAJAPAKSA
  elected president percent of vote - Mahinda
  RAJAPAKSA 50.3, Ranil WICKREMESINGHE 48.4,
  other 1.3

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Branches Of Government

• Judicial
• Supreme Court Court of Appeals judges for both
  courts are appointed by the president.
• Political Parties and Leaders
• All Ceylon Tamil Congress or ACTC
  G.PONNAMBALAM Ceylon Workers Congress or CWC
  Arumugam THONDAMAN Communist Party or CP D.
  GUNASEKERA Eelam People's Democratic Party or
  EPDP Douglas DEVANANDA Eelam People's
  Revolutionary Liberation Front or EPRLF Suresh
  PREMACHANDRAN Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna or JVP
  Somawansa AMARASINGHE Lanka Sama Samaja Party
  or LSSP Tissa VITHARANA Mahajana Eksath
  Peramuna (People's United Front) or MEP D.
  GUNAWARDENE National Heritage Party or JHU
  Ellawala METHANANDA National Unity Alliance or
  NUA Ferial ASHRAFF People's Liberation
  Organization of Tamil Eelam or PLOTE D.
  SIDHARTHAN Sri Lanka Freedom Party or SLFP
  Mahinda RAJAPAKSA Sri Lanka Muslim Congress or
  SLMC Rauff HAKEEM Tamil Eelam Liberation
  Organization or TELO Selvam ADAIKALANATHAN
  Tamil National Alliance or TNA R. SAMPANTHAN
  Tamil United Liberation Front or TULF V.
  ANANDASANGAREE United National Party or UNP
  Ranil WICKREMASINGHE Up-country People's Front
  or UPF P. CHANDRASEKARAN

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Branches of Government

• Legislative
• unicameral Parliament (225 seats members elected
  by popular vote on the basis of an open-list,
  proportional representation system by electoral
  district to serve six-year terms) elections
  last held on 2 April 2004 (next to be held by
  2010) election results percent of vote by party
  or electoral alliance - SLFP and JVP (no longer
  in formal UPFA alliance) 45.6, UNP 37.8, TNA
  6.8, JHU 6, SLMC 2, UPF 0.5, EPDP 0.3, other
  1 seats by party - UNP 68, SLFP 57, JVP 39, TNA
  22, CWC 8, JHU 7, SLMC 6, SLMC dissidents 4,
  Communist Party 2, JHU dissidents 2, LSSP 2, MEP
  2, NUA 2, UPF 2, EPDP 1, UNP dissident 1

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Economy

• Economy Overview
• In 1977, Colombo abandoned statist economic
  policies and its import substitution trade policy
  for more market-oriented policies,
  export-oriented trade, and encouragement of
  foreign investment. Recent changes in government,
  however, have brought some policy reversals.
  Currently, the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party has
  a more statist economic approach, which seeks to
  reduce poverty by steering investment to
  disadvantaged areas, developing small and medium
  enterprises, promoting agriculture, and expanding
  the already enormous civil service. The
  government has halted privatizations. Although
  suffering a brutal civil war that began in 1983,
  Sri Lanka saw GDP growth average 4.5 in the last
  10 years with the exception of a recession in
  2001. In late December 2004, a major tsunami took
  about 31,000 lives, left more than 6,300 missing
  and 443,000 displaced, and destroyed an estimated
  1.5 billion worth of property. Government
  spending and reconstruction drove growth to more
  than 7 in 2006 but reduced agriculture output
  probably slowed growth to about 6 percent in
  2007. Government spending and loose monetary
  policy drove inflation to nearly 16 in 2007. Sri
  Lanka's most dynamic sectors now are food
  processing, textiles and apparel, food and
  beverages, port construction, telecommunications,
  and insurance and banking. In 2006, plantation
  crops made up only about 15 of exports (compared
  with more than 90 in 1970), while textiles and
  garments accounted for more than 60. About
  800,000 Sri Lankans work abroad, 90 of them in
  the Middle East. They send home more than 1
  billion a year. The struggle by the Tamil Tigers
  of the north and east for an independent homeland
  continues to cast a shadow over the economy.

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Economy

• GDP (purchasing power parity)
• 82.02 billion (2007 est.)
• GDP (official exchange rate)
• 30.01 billion (2007 est.)
• GDP - real growth rate
• 6.8 (2007 est.)
• GDP Per Capita (PPP)
• 4,000 (2007 est.)
• GDP - composition by sector
• agriculture 11.7 industry 29.9 services
  58.4 (2007 est.)
• Unemployment Rate
• 6 (est. 2007est.)

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Work Cited

• http//www.museum.gov.lk/
• https//www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world
  -factbook/geos/ce.htmlGeo