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Sri Lanka Religions Population

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Buddhism is the state religion and, as such, is protected and promoted. Although freedom for other religions is assured, there has been a steady erosion of that freedom with discrimination against minority religions in taxation, employment and education and, since 1988, a rising anti-Christian feeling. Christianity is perceived as foreign and a colonial imposition (sadly a partial truth under Portuguese and Dutch rule) and Evangelicals as using financial inducements to poor Buddhists for unethical conversions.

Religions Population % Adherents Ann.Growth
Buddhist 71.93 13,542,300 +1.1%
Hindu 12.00 2,259,246 -0.6%
Muslim 8.00 1,506,164 +1.2%
Christian 7.62 1,434,622 +2.0%
non-Religious/other 0.20 37,654 +1.0%
Sikh 0.15 28,241 -0.3%
Baha'i 0.10 18,827 +1.0%


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