Sri Lanka · overseas Chinese reference

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Chinese Sri Lankan minority (small counts in census ethnicity tables)

Reference estimate: ~3 thousand (2012)
Source: Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka

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Year-by-year (same definition, up to 30-year window)

Up to 30 calendar years ending in 2012; 3 year(s) on file for this definition (1991–2012). Most countries only publish census years or recent annual tables—not every calendar year is comparable. Verify gaps via source links.

Chinese Sri Lankan minority (small counts in census ethnicity tables)

Data year	Reference value	Source
1991	~3k	Source
2001	~3k	Source
2012	~3 thousand	Source

Trend (by data year)

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Chinese Sri Lankan minority (small counts in census ethnicity tables)

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