The census of 1824 identified the Salagamas as about 7.5% of the coastal Sinhalese population.

Japanese propaganda had an effect on many of the Sinhalese population, who now awaited their arrival.

The Karavas, whose traditional occupation was fishing, numbered around ten per cent of the Sinhalese population.

The traditional occupation of Salagamas, who made up about seven per cent of the Sinhalese population, was cinnamon peeling.

The largest of the lower castes was the Vahumpura, which numbered perhaps six per cent of the Sinhalese population.

There is a considerable Sinhalese population is now living in Africa.

This angered the Sinhalese population there, which began forming gangs and threatening vigilante attacks on any Tamil migrants to the region.

Areas with high concentration of Sinhalese population according to the 2006 Census.

Since the peace accord was signed last year, pressure has grown on the Government to boost the Sinhalese population in the east.

His mission won over the monarch, who embraced the faith and propagated it throughout the Sinhalese population.