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The 1951 census was postponed to 1953 due to a shortage of paper, and the following was also postponed to 1963. [1] The 1991 census was not held due to the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009), with areas in the Northern and Eastern Provinces controlled by the Tamil militant LTTE.
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
There also exists a significant population in Sri Lanka who are native speakers of Tamil language and are of Islamic faith. Though a significant amount of evidence points towards these Muslims being ethnic Tamils, [103] [104] [105] they are controversially [103] [105] [106] listed as a separate ethnic group by the Sri Lankan government. [107 ...
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 ...
Tamil Population Percent Year Notes Refs India: 69,810,141 [clarify] 5.89%: 2011 census [a] [1] Sri Lanka: 3,135,770: 15.40%: 2012 census [b] [2]
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.
Distribution of languages and religious groups of Sri Lanka on D.S. division and sector level according to the 1981 Census of Population and Housing Percentage of Indian Tamil people in Sri Lanka by district according to the 2012 census. Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka predominantly speak Tamil, however depending on where they live in the country ...
The population of the district, like the rest of the north and east of Sri Lanka, has been heavily affected by the civil war. The war killed an estimated 100,000 people. [ 13 ] Several hundred thousand Sri Lankan Tamils, possibly as much as one million, emigrated to the West during the war. [ 14 ]