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Sri Lanka

Peoples with official figures for Sri Lanka on this site: 4. Type of data: national and/or ethnic group, UN, ethnicity / nationality.

4
peoples with data
2012
years of data

Peoples of the country

The list is not complete: not every people is in our catalogue yet, and the country's statistics may count groups we do not list.

Sinhalesecensus 2012 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Sinhalese» · [1]
15,250,081
Tamilscensus 2012 · ethnicity / nationality · «Sri Lankan Tamil» · [2]
2,269,266
Malayscensus 2012 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Malay» · [1]
44,130
Burgher peoplecensus 2012 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Burgher» · [1]
38,293

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Sri Lanka, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. Population by Ethnic group and District, Census 1981, 2001, 2012 (Statistical Abstract 2024, table 2.11). https://www.statistics.gov.lk/abstract2024/CHAP2/2.11.pdf