{"id":4631,"date":"2026-01-19T11:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T05:46:48","slug":"sri-lanka-manufacturing-and-services-activities-expand-in-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/sri-lanka-manufacturing-and-services-activities-expand-in-december-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Manufacturing and services activities expand in December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sri Lanka Purchasing Managers\u2019 Index for Manufacturing (PMI \u2013 Manufacturing) recorded an index value of 60.9 in December 2025, indicating a continued expansion in manufacturing activities. All sub-indices contributed positively to this increase, mainly supported by seasonal demand, despite adverse weather-related disruptions experienced at the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka Purchasing Managers\u2019 Index for Services (PMI \u2013 Services) recorded an index value of 67.9 in December 2025, indicating a notable expansion in services activities compared to the previous month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/bizenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/19091017\/press_20260116_sl_pmi_2025_december_e-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171052\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/bizenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/19091014\/press_20260116_sl_pmi_2025_december_e-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171051\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Source : Ada Derana Biz <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Purchasing Managers\u2019 Index for Manufacturing (PMI \u2013 Manufacturing) recorded an index value of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/economictimes.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}