Optimism about country’s direction reaches 25% in November

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According to SLOTS polling conducted in November 2024, 25% of Sri Lankan adults believed the country was heading in the right direction, while 16% expressed uncertainty about its trajectory.

Its compiler Institute for Health Policy said there was a temporary boost in optimism in the days immediately after the Presidential Election, but since then this has subsided, but that that overall sentiment remains more positive than before the elections.

Despite some temporary improvement in public sentiment since the Presidential Election, public sentiment remains largely negative but was not as unfavourable relative to other countries as it was before the elections. According to a global IPSOS poll of 29 countries conducted in November, Sri Lanka’s sentiment ranks below the global average for pessimism.