2024 Sri Lanka Population Census : 13 key points

The 15th census in the series of population censuses conducted in Sri Lanka, the ” Census of Population and Housing – 2024,” was carried out from 7th of October to the second week of February 2025.    The starting hour of the 19th December 2024, i.e. 2024.12.19, 00:00 hours, was designated as the “Census Moment” of this census.   As in the 2012 census, the enumeration of persons was carried out according to their placeof usual residence, i.e., according to the de jure method    In this census, the total population of Sri Lanka was reported as 21,781,800. Of this…

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