As at As at yesterday and today -
September 4th - US Dollar = Buy @ Rs.134.08 and Sell @ Rs.138.85
September 3rd - US Dollar = Buy @ Rs.133.14 and Sell @ Rs.137.04
US Dollar Depreciation Difference Today in Selling Rate is Rs.1.81
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Sri Lanka was worth US $ 74.94 billion in 2014, Our External Debt = Foreign Debt was US $ 22.68 billion or Rs.3,069.4 billion ( 1 US $ = Rs.135.31 as at August 7 2015) as at August 7, 2015 and continue to expand...whilst our Foreign Debt Interest payment as a percentage of GDP was nearly 6% per annum = US $ 4.5 billion (as at August 7) since we settle Foreign Debt mainly in Dollar conversion which according to that time Dollar Price was about Rs.608.89 billion and now same figure will be Rs.624.82 billion from August 7 to today, change in Dollar is Rs.3.54 which means now we have to pay extra Rs.15.93 billion to finance foreign debt