The GDP for Sri Lanka for the third quarter of 2015 (July - September) reached 2,158,327 million rupees against the GDP value of Rs.2,059,070 million the release  said. 

 

 

“The economic growth rate of the country for the first three quarters has been estimated as 5.2 percent,” it said.

 

 

During the third quarter of 2015, the three major economic activities, Agriculture, Industries and services  have shown a significance increase in the growth rates at  6.9 percent, 6.2 percent and 3.4 percent respectively.

 

 

Among the sub activities of Agriculture, ‘Growing of rice’ reported a very high growth (61.1 percent) and ‘Growing of oleaginous fruits; including coconut’ reported 7.9 percent of increase during the third quarter of 2015, compared to the same quarter of 2014. Meanwhile ‘Growing of tea’ and ‘Marine fishing’ suffered major falls in the growth rates as 3.9 percentand 8.6 percent respectively during this quarter.

 

The GDP was calculated according to the new 2010 base year, dcs SAID.

 

 

DCS states that detailed reports on the National Accounts Statistics have been released to DCS website. www.statistics.gov.lk.