Society
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1911 | 528,000 | — |
| 1921 | 517,300 | −2.0% |
| 1931 | 598,900 | +15.8% |
| 1946 | 733,700 | +22.5% |
| 1953 | 884,700 | +20.6% |
| 1963 | 1,164,700 | +31.6% |
| 1971 | 1,424,000 | +22.3% |
| 1981 | 1,886,900 | +32.5% |
| 1989 (est.) | 2,124,000 | +12.6% |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2011 | 2,270,924 | — |
| Source:Department of Census & Statistics Data is based on Sri Lankan Government Census. |
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Famous quotes containing the word society:
“Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children—not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.”
—Augustus Y. Napier (20th century)
“There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
“He is as antisocial as a flea. Clearly, such people are undesirable, and a society in which they can flourish has something wrong with it.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)