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Cost of Living Index

District-level index combining fuel (Octane petrol 92), property bands, and food basket estimates.

As of 2026-09-11 · Lankawa cost of living composite · Read methodology

National index (100 baseline)
49
Petrol 92 reference
LKR 414/L
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Coconut Index
LKR 118/each
CBSL Daily Price Report (price-monitor JSON) · cbsl_daily_price_report
Food price module
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Input honesty

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What moved your basket

Largest recent fuel and food staple deltas that feed the cost-of-living composite.

  • Egg (white)

    Food

    36LKR/each

    ↓ -564 (↓ -94.0%)

    2026-09-11 · live

  • Red dhal

    Food

    252LKR/kg

    ↓ -153 (↓ -37.8%)

    2026-09-11 · live

  • Coconut

    Food

    118LKR/each

    ↓ -17 (↓ -12.6%)

    2026-09-11 · live

  • Big onion (local)

    Food

    255LKR/kg

    ↓ -20 (↓ -7.3%)

    2026-09-11 · live

  • Auto Diesel

    Fuel

    382LKR/L

    ↓ -25 (↓ -6.1%)

    2026-06-30 · live

  • Petrol 92

    Fuel

    414LKR/L

    ↓ -20 (↓ -4.6%)

    2026-06-30 · live

District index map

Monochrome table-map of the COL composite by district (brighter = higher index).

colomb82galle74nuwara64trinco63ampara62matara59kandy58puttal57gampah56badull53kaluta50matale50hamban50battic48jaffna46ratnap43polonn42kurune41kegall40anurad38vavuni34monara34mannar32kilino30mullai27

Simple SVG choropleth from the composite index — not an official NCPI map.

Ranked by index

RankDistrictIndexFood basket (est.)Property scoreCompare
#1Colombo82base 49LKR 5,919100Compare
#2Galle74base 49LKR 4,100172Compare
#3Nuwara Eliya64base 49LKR 3,639157Compare
#4Trincomalee63base 49LKR 3,850143Compare
#5Ampara62base 49LKR 3,639150Compare
#6Matara59base 49LKR 3,950119Compare
#7Kandy58base 49LKR 4,24999Compare
#8Puttalam57base 49LKR 3,639130Compare
#9Gampaha56base 49LKR 4,59872Compare
#10Badulla53base 49LKR 3,826102Compare
#11Kalutara50base 49LKR 4,15073Compare
#12Matale50base 49LKR 3,639102Compare
#13Hambantota50base 49LKR 3,639100Compare
#14Batticaloa48base 49LKR 3,77686Compare
#15Jaffna46base 49LKR 4,00065Compare
#16Ratnapura43base 49LKR 3,87561Compare
#17Polonnaruwa42base 49LKR 3,63971Compare
#18Kurunegala41base 49LKR 3,92548Compare
#19Kegalle40base 49LKR 3,63961Compare
#20Anuradhapura38base 49LKR 3,76347Compare
#21Vavuniya34base 49LKR 3,63937Compare
#22Monaragala34base 49LKR 3,63938Compare
#23Mannar32base 49LKR 3,63930Compare
#24Kilinochchi30base 49LKR 3,63923Compare
#25Mullaitivu27base 49LKR 3,63910Compare

Composite refreshed from live federation inputs where available. Not an official NCPI publication.