ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s official remittances rose 25.2 percent to 695.7 million dollars in September 2025, while the total in the first nine months reached 5.81 billion dollars rising 20 percent from a year ago, central bank data showed, with more people leaving to work abroad. The worker remittances hit a six-year high in 2024 after a record number from the island nation’s labour force left the country searching for foreign jobs amid Sri Lanka’s recovery from an unprecedented economic crisis, official data showed. In 2024 full year remittances rose 10.1 percent to 6.57 billion dollars, from nearly 6 billion…
Sri Lanka worker remittances up 25.2-pct in September 2025
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