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Population : 20.064.776 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 and more than 200.000 tamils have sought refuge in the west (july 2005 est.)
Age Structure
: 0-14 years: 24.5% (male 2.508.384/female 2.397.986) 15-64 years: 68.4% (male 6.658.765/female 7.059.468) 65 years and over: 7.2% (male 670.813/female 769.360) (2005 est.)
Median Age : total: 29.44 years male: 28.38 years female: 30.51 years (2005 est.)
Population growth rate :
0.79% (2005 est.)
Birth rate: 15.63 births/1.000 population (2005 est.)
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Death rate :
6.49 deaths/1.000 population (2005 est.)
Net Migration rate
: -1.27 migrant(s)/1.000 population (2005 est.)
Sex ratio : at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 0.94 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.87 male(s)/female total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2005 est.)
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HIV / AIDS - Adult Prevalence rate:
less than 0.1% (2001 est.)
HIV / AIDS People living with HIV/AIDS
: 3.500 (2001 est.)
Nationality : noun: sri lankan(s) adjective: sri lankan
Ethnic groups
:sinhalese 73.8%. sri lankan moors 7.2%. indian tamil 4.6%. sri lankan tamil 3.9%. other 0.5%. unspecified 10% (2001 census provisional data)
Religions : buddhist 69.1%. muslim 7.6%. hindu 7.1%. christian 6.2%. unspecified 10% (2001 census provisional data)
Languages
: sinhala (official and national language) 74%. tamil (national language) 18%. other 8% note: english is commonly used in government and is spoken competently by about 10% of the population
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