Population by Ethnicity according to District and Sector (Provisional) SL 2001 Census
	District and Sector	Total no. of persons	Ethnicity
			Sinhalese	Sri Lanka	Indian Tamil	Sri Lanka Moor	Burgher	Malay	Sri Lanka Chetty	Bharatha	Other
				Tamil
	Colombo	2,234,146	1,707,401	249,915	26,036	203,558	16,138	19,421	1,236	754	9,687
	%	100	76.42	11.19	1.17	9.11	0.72	0.87	0.06	0.03	0.43
	Urban	1,221,761	738,816	237,640	19,497	189,630	11,175	14,518	1,043	650	8,792
	Rural	1,005,071	966,868	10,700	2,520	13,926	4,962	4,903	193	104	895
	Estate	7,314	1,717	1,575	4,019	2	1	0	0	0	0
	Gampaha	2,066,096	1,881,854	64,450	7,388	80,320	10,274	12,333	6,328	798	2,351
	%	100	91.08	3.12	0.36	3.89	0.5	0.6	0.31	0.04	0.11
	Urban	301,689	242,215	27,218	2,662	25,314	1,674	1,006	424	422	754
	Rural	1,763,838	1,639,223	37,107	4,710	55,006	8,596	11,327	5,904	376	1,589
	Estate	569	416	125	16	0	4	0	0	0	8
	Kalutara	1,060,800	923,893	13,527	28,769	92,775	739	706	70	13	308
	%	100	87.09	1.28	2.71	8.75	0.07	0.07	0.01	0	0.03
	Urban	112,715	75,343	1,494	635	34,960	124	85	20	8	46
	Rural	913,199	841,526	6,919	5,500	57,725	612	610	45	5	257
	Estate	34,886	7,024	5,114	22,634	90	3	11	5	0	5
	Kandy	1,272,463	940,963	50,405	106,259	168,960	2,080	2,210	84	17	1,485
	%	100	73.95	3.96	8.35	13.28	0.16	0.17	0.01	0	0.12
	Urban	156,923	99,806	14,118	9,050	30,876	988	1,250	21	12	802
	Rural	1,023,092	828,926	26,604	27,813	137,040	1,047	926	63	5	668
	Estate	92,448	12,231	9,683	69,396	1,044	45	34	0	0	15
	Matale	442,427	354,985	23,982	23,329	38,867	419	474	57	3	311
	%	100	80.24	5.42	5.27	8.78	0.09	0.11	0.01	0	0.07
	Urban	36,352	16,870	5,707	2,688	10,690	202	111	16	1	67
	Rural	384,209	336,014	12,620	6,902	27,867	214	357	41	2	192
	Estate	21,866	2,101	5,655	13,739	310	3	6	0	0	52
	Nuwara Eliya	700,083	280,236	41,445	359,386	17,557	538	600	36	12	273
	%	100	40.03	5.92	51.33	2.51	0.08	0.09	0.01	0	0.04
	Urban	43,050	19,157	9,557	9,101	4,629	188	298	3	8	109
	Rural	283,870	239,375	12,831	20,758	10,325	248	215	17	0	101
	Estate	373,163	21,704	19,057	329,527	2,603	102	87	16	4	63
	Galle	990,539	934,381	11,596	8,553	35,346	276	134	59	17	177
	%	100	94.33	1.17	0.86	3.57	0.03	0.01	0.01	0	0.02
	Urban	110,654	85,659	1,125	268	23,253	170	65	35	5	74
	Rural	862,880	843,118	5,252	2,170	12,049	99	58	24	12	98
	Estate	17,005	5,604	5,219	6,115	44	7	11	0	0	5
	Matara	761,236	716,780	4,791	16,983	22,378	146	97	4	2	55
	%	100	94.16	0.63	2.23	2.94	0.02	0.01	0	0	0.01
	Urban	64,539	53,600	387	56	10,410	29	43	0	0	14
	Rural	676,533	658,995	2,095	3,279	11,950	117	52	4	2	39
	Estate	20,164	4,185	2,309	13,648	18	0	2	0	0	2
	Hambantota	525,370	510,063	1,957	243	5,506	114	7,385	8	0	94
	%	100	97.09	0.37	0.05	1.05	0.02	1.41	0	0	0.02
	Urban	21,671	15,185	590	41	2,414	54	3,320	0	0	67
	Rural	502,268	493,793	1,152	191	3,013	54	4,035	8	0	22
	Estate	1,431	1,085	215	11	79	6	30	0	0	5
	Jaffna	-
	Mannar	*
	Vavuniya	*
	Mullaitivu	-
	Kilinochchi	-
	Batticaloa	*
	Ampara	589,344	231,771	110,180	410	245,089	1,008	169	6	1	710
	%	100	39.33	18.7	0.07	41.59	0.17	0.03	0	0	0.12
	Urban	112,422	17,617	26,744	74	67,230	598	144	1	1	13
	Rural	476,922	214,154	83,436	336	177,859	410	25	5	0	697
	Trincomalee	*
	Kurunegala	1,452,369	1,332,426	16,991	2,732	97,778	654	1,223	125	68	372
	%	100	91.74	1.17	0.19	6.73	0.05	0.08	0.01	0	0.03
	Urban	34,719	26,198	2,657	263	4,997	184	381	9	4	26
	Rural	1,410,904	1,303,559	11,470	1,268	92,772	470	841	116	64	344
	Estate	6,746	2,669	2,864	1,201	9	0	1	0	0	2
	Puttalam	705,342	520,330	48,689	2,161	131,864	668	666	540	45	379
	%	100	73.77	6.9	0.31	18.7	0.09	0.09	0.08	0.01	0.05
	Urban	65,072	27,331	7,567	458	29,060	183	362	16	3	92
	Rural	638,728	491,866	40,988	1,451	102,796	474	301	524	42	286
	Estate	1,542	1,133	134	252	8	11	3	0	0	1
	Anuradhapura	746,466	677,667	5,064	517	61,503	167	200	44	3	1,301
	%	100	90.78	0.68	0.07	8.24	0.02	0.03	0.01	0	0.17
	Urban	56,632	51,775	850	45	3,825	55	45	1	0	36
	Rural	689,834	625,892	4,214	472	57,678	112	155	43	3	1,265
	Polonnaruwa	359,197	324,342	7,185	147	27,272	62	34	5	7	143
	%	100	90.3	2	0.04	7.59	0.02	0.01	0	0	0.04
	Rural	359,197	324,342	7,185	147	27,272	62	34	5	7	143
	Badulla	774,555	558,218	32,230	141,087	40,455	606	1,390	112	21	436
	%	100	72.07	4.16	18.22	5.22	0.08	0.18	0.01	0	0.06
	Urban	52,474	34,535	4,960	4,223	7,844	122	578	3	3	206
	Rural	565,242	510,242	10,270	12,570	30,798	357	740	67	3	195
	Estate	156,839	13,441	17,000	124,294	1,813	127	72	42	15	35
	Moneragala	396,173	374,553	5,579	7,660	8,047	113	83	19	1	118
	%	100	94.54	1.41	1.93	2.03	0.03	0.02	0	0	0.03
	Rural	387,949	373,855	3,613	2,173	7,988	107	83	19	1	110
	Estate	8,224	698	1,966	5,487	59	6	0	0	0	8
	Ratnapura	1,008,164	873,265	34,335	78,581	20,871	405	245	49	2	411
	%	100	86.62	3.41	7.79	2.07	0.04	0.02	0	0	0.04
	Urban	58,371	45,477	4,151	976	7,457	157	52	8	1	92
	Rural	847,896	813,290	9,516	12,226	12,189	214	146	37	1	277
	Estate	101,897	14,498	20,668	65,379	1,225	34	47	4	0	42
	Kegalle	779,774	667,536	14,163	45,647	51,699	209	188	56	9	267
	%	100	85.61	1.82	5.85	6.63	0.03	0.02	0.01	0	0.03
	Urban	17,430	15,882	629	153	528	58	58	20	1	101
	Rural	706,726	644,513	5,335	5,507	50,923	144	115	36	8	145
	Estate	55,618	7,141	8,199	39,987	248	7	15	0	0	21
	Total	16,864,544	13,810,664	736,484	855,888	1,349,845	34,616	47,558	8,838	1,773	18,878
	%	100	81.89	4.37	5.08	8	0.21	0.28	0.05	0.01	0.11
	Urban	2,466,474	1,565,466	345,394	50,190	453,117	15,961	22,316	1,620	1,119	11,291
	Rural	13,498,358	12,149,551	291,307	109,993	889,176	18,299	24,923	7,151	635	7,323
	Estate	899,712	95,647	99,783	695,705	7,552	356	319	67	19	264
	District/Sector	TOTAL	Sinhalese	SL Tamil	IND Tamil	SL Moor	Burgher	Malay	SL Chetty	Bharatha	OTHER
	In Jaffna, Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi districts, no enumeration was done.  * In Mannar District, out of 5 D.S. Divisions only one was enumerated partially. In Vavuniya District, out of 4 D.S. Divisions, one was enumerated completly and 2 were enumerated partially. In Batticaloa District, out of 12 D.S. Divisions, 5 were enumerated completely and 6 were enumerated partially. In Trincomalee District, out of 11 D.S. Divisions, 7 were enumerated completely and two were enumerated partially. The data are not included for these districts due to incomplete enumeration.