{"id":14271,"date":"2024-12-21T11:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T06:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=14271"},"modified":"2024-12-21T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T06:07:02","slug":"sri-lankan-economy-grows-by-5-5-pct-in-q3-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/sri-lankan-economy-grows-by-5-5-pct-in-q3-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan economy grows by 5.5 pct in Q3 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Sri Lankan economy grew by 5.5 percent in the third quarter of 2024, according to the latest statistics released by the country&#8217;s central bank on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the central bank, the agriculture activities grew by 3 percent, industry activities by 10.8 percent and service activities by 2.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a year-on-year reduction in tea production in October 2024, the total production between January and October recorded a marginal growth. Rubber production showed steady improvement, achieving a notable year-on-year increase in October, according to the central bank.<\/p>\n<p>Coconut production continues to trend downward, experiencing a year-on-year decline over the first ten months of 2024, said the central bank.<\/p>\n<p>During the year up to Dec. 20, the Sri Lankan rupee appreciated against the U.S. dollar by 10.7 percent, the central bank added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lankan economy grew by 5.5 percent in the third quarter of 2024, according to the latest statistics released by the country&#8217;s central bank on Friday. According to the central bank, the agriculture activities grew by 3 percent, industry activities by 10.8 percent and service activities by 2.6 percent. Despite a year-on-year reduction in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14272,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271\/revisions\/14272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}