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Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2, December 2010
  • E-ISSN: 15644278

Abstract

During the early phase of the demographic transition in Sri Lanka (in the 1920s), the birth rate persisted at about 40 per 1,000 population, with the death rate fluctuating at around 20 per 1,000. A slight decline in the death rate was observed from the late 1920s onward. After the 1940s, the crude death rate dropped at an unprecedented level: about 1.5 deaths per 1,000 population per year on average, before reaching the level of 12 deaths per 1,000 population by the middle of the twentieth century (Caldwell, 1986).

Related Subject(s): Population and Demography
Countries: Sri Lanka

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