This ERD working paper provides an introduction to poverty-related data available in Sri Lanka as well as monetary measurements of poverty carried out using this data. The lack of an official poverty line in Sri Lanka until June 2004, has, over time, generated a number of poverty lines and corresponding poverty measures. While these poverty measures have provided a good base for poverty analysis, they have also generated problems relating to the use of multiple methods, which this paper also touches on. The release of the official poverty line by the Department of Census and Statistics can be seen as a major step forward in the debate on poverty measurement in Sri Lanka.