What per cent of Sri Lankans are Buddists?
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variety of religions. As of the 2011 census 70.2% of Sri Lankans were Theravada Buddhists, 12.6% were Hindus, 9.7% were Muslims (mainly Sunni) and 7.4% Christians (6.1%Roman Catholic and 1.3% other Christian).
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The percentage of Buddhists has risen from 62% to 70% and of Muslims from 7.5% to 9.7% while the percentage of Hindus has fallen from 21% to 12.5%. By the 1980s, the population of Christians was mostly concentrated in the northwest of Sri Lanka and in the capital where they are 10% of the population.
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