Migration impact
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
A plain-language summary of who arrives, who leaves, and what the government spends on migration in Sri Lanka. Every headline figure is a reported value from an official source — nothing is estimated.
At a glance
Headline figures
3,372
Total incoming
People arrived, all recorded years
852,342
Total outgoing
People left, all recorded years
-848,970
Net balance
Net outflow
—
Spent on migrants
No reported figure
Trend
Incoming vs outgoing, by year
Arrivals compared with departures for each reported year. Use the selector to read the exact figures for a single year.
484
Incoming
181,933
Outgoing
-181,449
Net that year
Public expenditure
What the government spends on migrants
Migration-related public spending (refugee support and development assistance provided) in current US dollars. For donor countries this includes in-donor refugee costs.
No migration-spending figure is recorded for Sri Lanka yet. Many countries only report this if they are OECD DAC donors.