South Asia
Sri Lanka
EU Compliance · Geopolitical Risk · Sourcing Attractiveness
Market-entry intelligence →Why these scores
EU Compliance, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Geopolitical Risk, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Attractiveness, by dimension
9 = most attractive · methodology & sources
Analyst scores, last reviewed June 2026; each dimension's sources and cadence are on its methodology page.
Data layers
The EU is Sri Lanka's #4 import source (world lens). Sri Lanka is the EU's #84 goods supplier.
Sri Lanka on the world stage
Total imports
$18.4bn
2024 annual
Total exports
$12.1bn
194 partners
#1 import source
China
23.3%
#1 export dest.
USA
23.8%
2024 annual, UN Comtrade (HS TOTAL, all partners). Line colour: coverage (exports/imports per partner).
Sri Lanka and the EU
EU imports from
€2.9bn
0.1% of extra-EU
EU exports to
€1.0bn
0.0% of extra-EU
EU supplier rank
EU's #84 supplier
EU trade balance
one-sided
coverage 0.35
2025 annual totals, Eurostat COMEXT. EU trade board →
Electricity & grid
National sources · carbon from Ember
Industrial
53
EUR/MWh
Consumer
81
EUR/MWh, all-in
Grid carbon
378
gCO₂e/kWh
Renewables
55%
of generation
regulated market
Power market
● Import dependenceMarket model
Single buyer (unbundling)
Direct PPA
Limited
grid access: limited
Reserve margin
–
Regulator
Independent
Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL)
Fuel-import and FX exposure on a loss-making CEB single buyer, mid-unbundling, leaves adequacy hostage to the balance of payments, as the 2022 blackouts showed.
Tracked infrastructure
1 gas plants
300 MW
3 coal plants
900 MW
13 wind farms
221 MW
1 solar farms
20 MW · 1 building
8 hydro plants
1.1 GW
0 steel plants
capacity n/a · 1 building
Operating assets tracked by Global Energy Monitor (CC BY 4.0); counts are tracked facilities, not exhaustive totals. Energy overview →
Monitored ports (3)
Source: IMF PortWatch. Port count reflects monitoring coverage, not economic significance.
Demographics
UN World Population Prospects 2024 · medium variant
Median age
33.1
→ 40.2 by 2050
Fertility
1.95
below replacement
Working-age
65.9%
aged 15–64
Old-age dep.
18.4
→ 32.5 by 2050
Median age 1990–2050
Population 23.1M · peaks 2051
By 2050: +7% (24.8M)