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Vital Statistics - Births - 1997

Sri Lanka, 1997
Reference ID
LKA-RGD-RGB-1997-v1.0
Producer(s)
Statistics Division, Registrar General's Department
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Jan 20, 2023
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Race (race)

Data file: Birth 1997

Overview

Valid: 333219
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 40
End: 41
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 14
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Sinhalese 234308
70.3%
2 Sri Lanka Tamil 42019
12.6%
3 Sri lanka Moors 39384
11.8%
4 Burghers Eurasia 715
0.2%
5 Malays 1082
0.3%
6 Veddah 5
0%
7 Indian Tamil 15334
4.6%
8 Indian Moors 27
0%
9 Pakistan Tamil 5
0%
10 Pakistan Moors 19
0%
11 Europeans 116
0%
12 Other - Ind - Pak 73
0%
13 Other Non Ind - Pak 112
0%
14 Unknown Race 20
0%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
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