World population/Sri Lanka
Asia
Population of Sri Lanka
23,348,314
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#60
world rank
0.28%
of world population
+0.49%
yearly change
+113,248
people this year
316,459
births a year
169,567
deaths a year
How the figure for Sri Lanka is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Sri Lanka at 23,348,314 on 1 July 2026, and projects 23,461,562 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Sri Lanka at number 60 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.28 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 51 entries in Asia.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 316,459 births and 169,567 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Asia
Ranked by population.