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People
Population: 17,196,436 (July 1990), growth rate 1.5% (1990).
Birth rate: 21 births/1,000 population (1990).
Death rate: 6 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
Net migration rate: NEGL migrants/1,000 population (1990).
Infant mortality rate: 31 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
Life expectancy at birth: 68 years male, 72 years female (1990).
Total fertility rate: 2.3 children born/woman (1990).
Nationality: noun--Sri Lankan(s); adjective--Sri Lankan.
Ethnic divisions: 74% Sinhalese; 18% Tamil; 7% Moor; 1% Burgher,
Malay, and Veddha.
Religion: 69% Buddhist, 15% Hindu, 8% Christian, 8% Muslim.
Language: Sinhala (official); Sinhala and Tamil listed as
national languages; Sinhala spoken by about 74% of population,
Tamil spoken by about 18%; English commonly used in government
and spoken by about 10% of the population.
Literacy: 87%.
Labor force: 6,600,000; 45.9% agriculture, 13.3% mining
and manufacturing, 12.4% trade and transport, 28.4% services
and other (1985 est.).
Organized labor: about 33% of labor force, over 50% of which
are employed on tea, rubber, and coconut estates.