IMF projects 3.1% economic growth for Sri Lanka in 2026
Posted on October 29th, 2025
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Colombo, Oct 29 (Daily Mirror) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that Sri Lanka’s economy will grow by 3.1% in 2026, reflecting a gradual return to its long-term trend, officials said.
Thomas Helbling, Deputy Director of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department, made the announcement during a press conference on the Asia and Pacific Region’s Economic Outlook.
Helbling highlighted that Sri Lanka has experienced a strong economic recovery, supported by the government’s ongoing reform program in collaboration with the IMF. He noted that the country’s growth reached 5% last year and 4.8% in the first half of 2025.
Some of the strong rebound was just normalization of economic activity, and some of the growth effect is more temporary. Sri Lanka is returning to its trend growth of 3.1 percent, and with the stronger-than-expected rebound in 2024 and 2025, we see that return to trend happening a bit sooner,” Helbling added.