Sri Lanka, July 15 -- Almost all Sri Lankan newspapers reported yesterday that Sri Lanka is the third most congested country in the world. The story had been based on the Numbeo's Traffic Index, a digital platform run by Numbeo, a for-profit crowdsourced global database in Serbia.
According to the report, Sri Lanka was placed behind only Nigeria and Costa Rica. Interestingly, Sri Lanka is also ranked by the Index as the most traffic-congested country in Asia. Bangladesh, Kenya, Egypt, Peru, Iran, India and Colombia completed the list of the world's 10 most traffic-congested countries.
Numbeo's Traffic Index compares congestion levels across countries and cities using user-submitted data on average travel time, traffic inefficiencies, fue...