COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Sri Lanka Broad Money
Sri Lanka broad money: latest available value for 2019, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
FM.LBL.BMNY.GD.ZS| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 59,46 | 2,57 |
| 2018 | 56,89 | 2,40 |
| 2017 | 54,49 | 2,38 |
| 2016 | 52,11 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: Broad money is the sum of all liquid financial instruments held by money-holding sectors that are widely accepted in an economy as a medium of exchange, plus those that can be converted into a medium of exchange at short notice at, or close to, their full nominal value. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.
Source organization: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF); World Development Indicators Database, World Bank (WB); National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesSri Lanka recorded 59,46 percent of GDP in 2019, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2018, the broad money increased by 2,57.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 4 observations from 2016 to 2019, the average was 55,74; the minimum was 52,11 in 2016 and the maximum was 59,46 in 2019.
Sri Lanka ranks 81 out of 156 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for South Asia.
It is also below the available average for the Upper middle income group.
Financial depth and monetary liquidity.