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Sri Lanka Religions Population
Sri Lanka 
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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