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Licence: CC BY 4.0. You may use, share and adapt the files, including commercially, if you credit Source: Budgets LK (budgetslk.com) and link to this page.
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Invisible marks: the text name columns (ministry, Head and group names) also end with a few invisible characters that identify the file as coming from Budgets LK. They do not change how the text looks. If you match names and a lookup fails, remove the characters U+200B, U+200C and U+200D.
Amounts are in rupees. The Appropriation sets show the figures as printed in each year's Bill, not adjusted for inflation. The Central Bank sets are actual figures as published.
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Total spending, borrowing limit and debt servicing by year

One row per Budget year: the two schedules, the total, the borrowing limit and the debt servicing in the Second Schedule split into interest and loan repayment.

20 rows, 11 columns. Source: Appropriation Bills and Acts of Sri Lanka (Gazette), read by Budgets LK.

CSV Excel (.xlsx)

Columns and notes

Amounts are in rupees, as printed in each year's Bill, and are not adjusted for inflation.
The 2008 and 2009 Acts have no Second Schedule (charged expenditure), so their totals cover voted spending only and the debt columns are empty.
Interest is the recurrent amount and repayment the capital amount of Head 249 in the Second Schedule. This is Budgets LK's reading of those two columns.

Column	Meaning
`year`	Budget year
`document`	Kind of source document
`first_schedule`	First Schedule total (general services)
`second_schedule`	Second Schedule total (charged on the Consolidated Fund)
`total`	First plus Second Schedule
`borrowing_limit`	Borrowing limit set in the Bill
`debt_interest`	Debt servicing, recurrent part (read as interest)
`debt_repayment`	Debt servicing, capital part (read as repayment of loans)
`debt_total`	Debt servicing in total
`debt_share_of_total`	Debt servicing divided by total spending (0.4884 is 48.84%)
`source_key`	Identifies the file as coming from Budgets LK.

Spending by Head and year

One row per Head per year, with recurrent and capital amounts, the ministry it sat under that year, the spending group Budgets LK puts it in and a link to the page of the official PDF.

3,967 rows, 11 columns. Source: Appropriation Bills and Acts of Sri Lanka (Gazette), read by Budgets LK.

CSV Excel (.xlsx)

Columns and notes

Amounts are in rupees, as printed in each year's Bill, and are not adjusted for inflation.
Covers the years with Head-level data (all years except 2020, where only ministry totals are available).
A Head can appear in both schedules, for example Heads 249 and 253; each schedule is its own row.
Spending groups follow the rules on the About page.

Column	Meaning
`year`	Budget year
`schedule`	First (general services) or Second (charged on the Consolidated Fund)
`ministry`	Ministry or group the Head sat under that year
`head`	Head number (stays the same when ministries are renamed)
`head_name`	Name of the Head that year
`recurrent`	Recurrent amount
`capital`	Capital amount
`total`	Recurrent plus capital
`spending_group`	Where Budgets LK groups this Head
`source_pdf`	Page of the official document
`source_key`	Identifies the file as coming from Budgets LK.

Where Rs 100 goes: spending groups by year

Total spending in each Budgets LK spending group for each year, and its share of the total.

152 rows, 5 columns. Source: Appropriation Bills and Acts of Sri Lanka (Gazette), read by Budgets LK.

CSV Excel (.xlsx)
Columns and notes
- Amounts are in rupees, as printed in each year's Bill, and are not adjusted for inflation.
- Groups: debt servicing, pensions, defence and security, health, education, provincial councils, public administration and everything else. The rules are on the About page.
Column Meaning

year Budget year
spending_group Spending group
amount Amount in the group
share_of_total Share of total spending (0.4884 is 48.84%)

source_key Identifies the file as coming from Budgets LK.

Government revenue, spending and deficit: actual figures

What the central government actually collected and spent each year, from Central Bank of Sri Lanka tables. These are accounts, not Appropriation Act estimates.

18 rows, 21 columns. Source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka (Economic and Social Statistics 2011 and 2021, Annual Economic Review 2024 and 2025), compiled by Budgets LK.

CSV Excel (.xlsx)

Columns and notes

Amounts are in rupees, as published. Spending excludes repayment of loan principal.
Values are as published by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and the Ministry of Finance (provisional for the latest years). 2019 was restated by the Ministry of Finance. These are accounts of what was collected and spent, not the Appropriation Act estimates, and spending here excludes repayment of loan principal.
The overall balance is negative for a deficit.

Column	Meaning
`year`	Year
`status`	actual or provisional
`revenue_and_grants`	Total revenue and grants
`revenue`	Total revenue
`tax`	Tax revenue
`tax_income`	Taxes on net income and profits
`tax_domestic`	Taxes on domestic goods and services
`tax_trade`	Taxes on international trade
`tax_other`	Stamp duty, cess and other levies
`non_tax`	Non-tax revenue
`grants`	Grants
`expenditure`	Expenditure and net lending
`recurrent`	Recurrent expenditure
`interest`	Interest payments
`capital`	Capital expenditure
`lending`	Lending minus repayments
`overall_balance`	Overall budget balance (deficit is negative)
`financing_foreign`	Foreign financing (net)
`financing_domestic`	Domestic financing (net)
`source`	Central Bank table the row was read from
`source_key`	Identifies the file as coming from Budgets LK.

Outstanding central government debt

Debt owed by the central government at the end of each year, split into domestic and foreign, from Central Bank of Sri Lanka tables.

18 rows, 7 columns. Source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka (Economic and Social Statistics 2011 and 2021, Annual Economic Review 2025), compiled by Budgets LK.

CSV Excel (.xlsx)

Columns and notes

Amounts are in rupees. Central Bank series net of bank deposits ("net"). From 2020 the source also gives a gross figure, the series published by the Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) under the Public Debt Management Act, No. 33 of 2024.
Following IMF guidelines, non-resident holdings of Sri Lanka Development Bonds and International Sovereign Bonds are classified as foreign debt and resident holdings as domestic debt. The Central Bank states this applies from 2019 onwards (ESS 2021, Table 5.1, note (c)), so the split before 2019 may not be fully comparable. Totals are not affected.
From 2023 the domestic debt compilation method was changed and is based on data confirmed by the Ministry of Finance (source note (d)).
The 2022 to 2025 figures exclude debt service payments that became overdue after 12 April 2022 (source note (b)). The 2024 and 2025 data reflect the impact of external debt restructuring (source note (v)).
2024 and 2025 are provisional.

Column	Meaning
`year`	End of year
`domestic`	Domestic debt (net of bank deposits)
`foreign`	Foreign debt
`total`	Total (net series)
`gross`	Gross total, published from 2020
`source`	Central Bank table the row was read from
`source_key`	Identifies the file as coming from Budgets LK.

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Total spending, borrowing limit and debt servicing by year

Spending by Head and year

Where Rs 100 goes: spending groups by year

Government revenue, spending and deficit: actual figures

Outstanding central government debt