Provincial Gross Domestic Product (PGDP) for 2015 has been computed by the Statistics Department of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), based on the disaggregation of the rebased series of National Accounts estimates (2010 constant prices) by the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS)1. In the estimation of PGDP, the value of each line item in GDP (base year 2010) is apportioned using relevant indicators at provincial level.

The Sri Lankan economy reached an annual real GDP growth of 4.8 per cent in 2015, while the nominal GDP recorded a growth of 7.0 per cent to Rs. 11,183 billion. The disaggregation of nominal GDP across provinces is given in Table 1.

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As a further policy measure to develop the government securities market, the Central Bank from today has commenced releasing summary trading statistics on actual trading of government securities in the secondary market. From August 1, 2016, all primary dealers have been required to undertake inter-primary dealer trades in the trading platform arranged by the Central Bank through the Bloomberg which is a major international financial trading and information electronic platform. Further, all primary dealers will report all outright sales of government securities of value in excess of Rs. 50 mn to investors to this platform within 30 minutes of each transaction. Accordingly, the Central Bank will monitor these transactions on an on-going basis and summary of trading information consisting of yield rates and volume by each series of securities traded will be published in the Central Bank website in the format as annexed below. The Central Bank plans to release such information twice a day, at noon and close of the day, in due course when the reporting system is fully operative.