Food Price Pulse
Staple food prices and district meal-cost bands — enhances the cost-of-living food component.
As of 2025-09-15T00:00:00.000Z · WFP HDX food prices (Sri Lanka) · WFP HDX · lagged
Market prices as of September 2025
Lagged WFP HDX market averages — not same-day supermarket shelves. FoodLK cleaned hub/staples were unavailable; staples come from the WFP HDX Sri Lanka CSV (direct). HARTI and CBSL price-report PDF ingest remain needed on FoodLK for fresher civic food.
2 staple quotes are older than the freshness window — treat those lines as lagged.
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- Essentials basket
- LKR 6,162
- Staple quotes matched
- 33,259
- Cost of living
- View composite COL index →
Basket total uses non-stale staples only — lagged staple quotes are shown above but excluded from this figure.
Staple prices
Rice (white)
LKR 254
per kg · wfp_retail · 2025-09-15
Market average as of 2025-09-15
Onions
LKR 338
per kg · wfp_retail · 2025-09-15
Market average as of 2025-09-15
Lentils / dhal
LKR 271
per kg · wfp_retail · 2025-09-15
Market average as of 2025-09-15
Coconut Index
Coconut
LKR 142
per each · wfp_retail · 2025-09-15
Market average as of 2025-09-15
Eggs
LKR 31
per each · wfp_retail · 2025-09-15
Market average as of 2025-09-15
Stale quote
Sugar
LKR 320
per kg · wfp_retail · 2022-06-15
Stale quote (2022-06-15) — not current market
Stale quote
Wheat flour
LKR 284
per kg · wfp_retail · 2022-06-15
Stale quote (2022-06-15) — not current market
District meal costs
Estimated daily meal cost and monthly food basket by district.
District meal bands are Lankawa seed estimates — not live FoodLK district quotes.
| District | Daily meal (est.) | Monthly basket | Restaurant index | Relative cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colombo | LKR 2,333 | LKR 70,000 | 118 | |
| Gampaha | LKR 1,813 | LKR 54,379 | 104 | |
| Kalutara | LKR 1,675 | LKR 50,253 | 98 | |
| Kandy | LKR 1,636 | LKR 49,074 | 96 | |
| Matale | LKR 1,616 | LKR 48,484 | 95 | |
| Nuwara Eliya | LKR 1,577 | LKR 47,305 | 93 | |
| Galle | LKR 1,557 | LKR 46,716 | 92 | |
| Matara | LKR 1,547 | LKR 46,421 | 91 | |
| Hambantota | LKR 1,528 | LKR 45,832 | 90 | |
| Jaffna | LKR 1,518 | LKR 45,537 | 89 | |
| Kilinochchi | LKR 1,508 | LKR 45,242 | 88 | |
| Mannar | LKR 1,488 | LKR 44,653 | 87 | |
| Vavuniya | LKR 1,484 | LKR 44,505 | 86 | |
| Mullaitivu | LKR 1,434 | LKR 43,032 | 84 | |
| Batticaloa | LKR 1,434 | LKR 43,032 | 84 | |
| Ampara | LKR 1,434 | LKR 43,032 | 84 | |
| Trincomalee | LKR 1,434 | LKR 43,032 | 84 | |
| Kurunegala | LKR 1,434 | LKR 43,032 | 84 | |
| Puttalam | LKR 1,434 | LKR 43,032 | 84 | |
| Anuradhapura | LKR 1,434 | LKR 43,032 | 84 | |
| Polonnaruwa | LKR 1,434 | LKR 43,032 | 84 | |
| Badulla | LKR 1,434 | LKR 43,032 | 84 | |
| Monaragala | LKR 1,434 | LKR 43,032 | 84 | |
| Ratnapura | LKR 1,434 | LKR 43,032 | 84 | |
| Kegalle | LKR 1,434 | LKR 43,032 | 84 |
FoodLK was unavailable. Staple prices are from the WFP HDX Sri Lanka CSV (direct) — lagged market averages, not same-day shelf prices. The essentials basket sums non-stale staples only. District meal bands remain Lankawa seed. Not HARTI or NCPI.