While the Department of Census & Statistics has released its on Sri Lanka’s latest economic development, it has revealed that the island’s Gross Domestic Product for the second quarter of 2014 has grown by 7.8 percent compared to the same quarter in 2013.

The agricultural sector has contributed 10.6 percent, the industrial sector 31.5 percent and the services sector by 58 percent towards this.

According to these statistics the growth in the industrial sector is 12.2 percent while the agricultural sector has achieved a growth of 5.9 percent.

The services sector has shown a growth of 5.7 percent in the second quarter of 2014.