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The first census in Sri Lanka was held on 27 March 1871 and conducted by the Registrar General's Office, making it the first of any country in South Asia. It was conducted from then on every ten years. [1] [2] The Census Department was created on 1 December 1944 for taking the Census of 1946, which was postponed from 1941 due to World War II.
The census in Sri Lanka is carried out by the Department of Census and Statistics every 10 years, with the next one being planned for 2011. [87] The 2011 one being the first post-war census in three decades. The census will cover all Grama Niladhari (GN) divisions of the country. The first scientific census in Sri Lanka was conducted on March ...
According to the 2012 census the population of Sri Lanka was 20,359,439, giving a population density of 325/km2. [7] The population had grown by 5,512,689 (37.1%) since the 1981 census (the last full census), equivalent to an annual growth rate of 1.1%. [7] 3,704,470 (18.2%) lived in urban sectors - areas governed by municipal and urban ...
The following lists notable events that took place during 2009 in Sri Lanka. The year 2009 was an eventful year for Sri Lanka, as it was the year of the conclusion of the Sri Lankan Civil War , ending the nation's near 26-year long conflict with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam .
August 2009 in Sri Lanka (1 P) This page was last edited on 6 February 2025, at 17:13 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
This is a list of Tamil population per city (excluding Tamil Nadu & Pondicherry) ... 2012 census: Kandy Sri Lanka: 38,086: 24.01%: 2012 census [1] Kolonnawa
Map of Sri Lanka with Polonnaruwa District highlighted. ... According to the 2011 census [10] 89.7% of the population were Buddhists, 7.5% Muslim, ...
Kurunegala District has 7.3% of the country's total population. According to the census data, the estimated population of Kurunegala in the year 2001 was 1.4 million. The majority of the district's population belong to the Sinhalese majority. Other ethnic minorities include the Sri Lankan Moors, Sri Lankan Tamils, Burghers and Malays.