NationMaster - Sri Lankan Government statistics

Capital city Colombo; note - Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital
Corruption	3.2		[81st of 160]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > %	4.9 %	...	[156th of 174]
Secession attempts Tamil Elam
Start-up procedures to register a business > number	8	...	[118th of 171]
Status democracy
Suffrage 18 years of age; universal
Time required to build a warehouse > days	167 days	...	[99th of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days	837 days	...	[23rd of 171]
Time required to register property > days	63 days	...	[64th of 167]
Time required to start a business > days	50 days	...	[48th of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours	256 hours	...	[82nd of 169]
Time to resolve insolvency > years	2.2 years	...	[102nd of 151]
Total businesses registered > number	49,785	...	[54th of 71]
Trademarks, nonresidents	1,773	...	[24th of 99]
Trademarks, residents	3,989	...	[25th of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International	none
UN membership date	14 Dec. 1955
United Nations mission http://www.lanka.net/fm/
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood	Kalorama Heights

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; World Development Indicators database; "State Practice And International Law In Relation to unilateral Secession" by James Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge, 19 February 1997. Available online via the Department of Justice, Canada; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations; Wikipedia: List of Washington, D.C. embassies

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, ceylon

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