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Table 421 (Soc., Infra., Media)
Mass Media (1985-1997, 1999 - 2008)
Soc 421e
Year                            Item	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Circulation of Newspapers
Daily Newspapers (x1,000)	114,851	115,874	119,039	114,274	101,529	95,487	140,410	141,104	151,301	192,937	165,687	149,136	147,920
Sinhala	67,753	69,267	72,116	70,105	61,586	62,296	97,520	97,609	102,346	142,739	115,990	100,820	98,736
Tamil	15,239	11,113	13,228	12,983	10,777	7,357	11,100	10,364	11,674	13,172	13,750	13,950	14,390
English	31,859	32,994	33,695	31,186	29,166	25,834	31,790	33,131	37,281	37,026	35,947	34,366	34,794
Copies /1,000 person /day	23	23	23	22	19	18	26	26	27	35	29	26	25
Weekly Newspapers (x1,000)	99,477	111,645	152,690	69,146	107,302	109,945	118,107	122,720	126,540	125,526	128,088	131,914	132,856
Daily Newspapers											101,189
Sinhala	81,971	90,633	133,193	54,348	86,781	89,088	96,571	99,039	101,041	99,509	101,189	106,058	106,550
Tamil	4,196	4,828	5,099	5,146	1,840	2,121	3,998	5,201	6,827	7,481	7,686	4,618	4,900
English	13,310	16,184	14,398	9,652	18,681	18,736	17,538	18,480	18,672	18,536	19,213	21,238	21,406
Copies /1,000 person /day	121	133	179	80	123	124	132	136	138	135	136	138	138
Televisions
Number of TV Licenses (x1,000)	-	-	-	-	-	na	na	487	434	791	850	801	815
Number of TV Sets in Use (x1,000)	-	-	-	-	-	849	850	950	1,000	1,400	1,500	1,600	1,700
Number of TV Channels	-	-	-	-	-	2	3	3	3	6	6	8	8
Radios
Number of Radio Licenses (x1,000)	-	-	-	-	-	na	na	na	860	1,340	1,420	1,260	1,235
Number of Radio Services (Stations)	-	-	-	-	-	na	na	na	18	18	18	18	21
Year                            Item	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008(a)
Circulation of Newspapers (b)
Daily Newspapers (x1,000)	140,244	138,772	143,036	146,508	151,811	165,730	177,792	183,478	213,071	213,541
Sinhala	83,552	82,321	95,849	100,885	103,585	113,810	120,859	118,432	126,925	124,590
Tamil	20,865	22,747	19,792	18,610	19,704	20,570	23,442	32,646	47,734	50,237
English	35,827	33,704	27,395	27,213	28,522	31,350	33,491	32,400	38,411	38,715
Copies /1,000 person /day	24	23	24	25	25	27	35	29	34	34
Weekly Newspapers (x1,000)	114,873	131,699	104,656	106,347	112,132	120,134	120,941	77,322	111,193	110,802
Sinhala	90,202	104,440	84,110	84,026	89,002	96,997	97,723	56,299	78,648	76,932
Tamil	8,756	11,169	10,215	10,596	10,426	10,413	10,129	8,445	15,000	15,829
English	15,915	16,090	10,331	11,725	12,704	12,724	13,089	12,579	17,546	18,041
Copies /1,000 person /day	131	131	107	108	112	119	118	75	107	105
Televisions
Number of TV Channels	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	14	15
Radios
Number of Radio Services (Stations)	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	21	39	44
© ２０１０， KRI (Kusaka Research Institute)					Revised:  2010(y)/05(m)/30(d)
Source:					Chief Editor:
Economic and Social Statistics Of Sri Lanka					Dr. Milton Rajaratne (B.Com., M.Sc., Ph.D.)
Key:					The former Head, Department of Management Studies
(a) Provisional					University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
(b) Includes only national newspapers from 2006.