The World of Blue Jeans

The jeans industry provides jobs for nearly one million people in Sri Lanka. The country exports 3 billion dollars' worths of denim products to the United States each year.
Lakruwan Wanniarachchi / AFP / Getty

Avissawella, Sri Lanka
The garment industry provides jobs for nearly one million people in Sri Lanka.

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