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<text>
<title>
Sri Lanka: People
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Sri Lanka
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 17,838,190 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>note: since the outbreak of hostilities between the government
and armed Tamil separatists in the mid 1980s, several hundred
thousand Tamil civilians have fled the island; as of late 1992,
nearly 115,000 were housed in refugee camps in south India,
another 95,000 lived outside the Indian camps, and more than
200,000 Tamils have sought political asylum in the West; fewer
than 10,000 Tamils have been successfully repatriated to Sri
Lanka
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 1.11% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 18.71 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 5.84 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: -1.81 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 22.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 71.51 years</l>
<l> male: 68.94 years</l>
<l> female: 74.21 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 2.13 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Sri Lankan(s)</l>
<l> adjective: Sri Lankan</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: Sinhalese 74%, Tamil 18%, Moor 7%, Burgher,
Malay, and Vedda 1%
</p>
<p>Religions: Buddhist 69%, Hindu 15%, Christian 8%, Muslim 8%
</p>
<p>Languages: Sinhala (official and national language) 74%, Tamil
(national language) 18%
</p>
<p>note: English is commonly used in government and is spoken by
about 10% of the population
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
<l> total population: 88%</l>
<l> male: 93%</l>
<l> female: 84%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 6.6 million
</p>
<p> by occupation: agriculture 45.9%, mining and manufacturing
13.3%, trade and transport 12.4%, services and other 28.4% (1985
est.)
</p></body></article></text>