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Axiata Group Berhad | Sustainability & National Contribution Report 2016
Dialog Axiata PLC operates Sri Lanka’s largest and fastest growing mobile telecommunications network
and is also Sri Lanka’s largest Foreign Direct Investor (FDI) with investments totalling over USD2 billion.
Dialog, a winner of six GSMA Mobile World Awards, has topped Sri Lanka’s Corporate Accountability
rankings for the past six years in succession.
National Contribution
Sri Lanka’s economy has grown at an average of 6.4%between 2010
and 2015. Sri Lanka’s economy transitioned from a predominantly
rural-based agriculture economy towards a more urbanised
economy driven by services.
The country’s strong economic growth over the last decade has
seen the population grow more affluent while poverty rates are
steadily declining. Increasing wealth in the population has translated
into healthy mobile subscriber growth. Although mobile penetration
has historically been relatively low compared to more developed
Asian markets, the rate is now catching up. Between 2011 and 2016,
mobile penetration rate increased from 87% to 123%.
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53,531
Jobs
USD804
(1.0% of the nation’s GDP)
million
3,269
Staff
USD250 USD93
Operational
Direct GVA
Capital
Investment
million
million
million
in 2016
USD567
Capital and Operational Expenditure
Contribution to Gross Value Added
Direct Employees
Total Jobs Supported
USD257
Operational Indirect
and Induced GVA
million
USD203
Productivity
GVA
million
USD1
USD1.2
Every
Spent on Capex
and Opex
GVA Contribution
translated to
USD217
Contributed
(2.2% of the total tax revenue of the Sri Lankan Government)
million in taxes in 2016
3,269
25,165 24,485
Directly
Employed
Supported
Indirectly -
Operations
Supported
Indirectly -
Capital
Investment
611
Outsourced
Total Employees
21%
Female
99.8%
Sri Lankan
Citizens
USD180
Capital
Expenditure
million
USD386
Operational
Expenditure
million