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| Table 126 (Soc., Pri., Drug) | ||||||||||||||
| Drug Offenders According to Religion | ||||||||||||||
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| Year | Buddhist | % | Hindu | % | Islam | % | Roman Catholic | % | Other Christian | % | Others | % | Total | |
| 1988 | 1,523 | 65.2 | 215 | 9.2 | 364 | 15.6 | 121 | 5.2 | 113 | 4.8 | 1 | 0.0 | 2,337 | |
| 1989 | 1,947 | 63.0 | 356 | 11.5 | 548 | 17.7 | 181 | 5.9 | 59 | 1.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 3,091 | |
| 1990 | 4,159 | 62.5 | 745 | 11.2 | 1,149 | 17.3 | 570 | 8.6 | 31 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 6,654 | |
| 1991 | 4,661 | 61.0 | 778 | 10.2 | 1,463 | 19.1 | 381 | 5.0 | 355 | 4.6 | 4 | 0.1 | 7,642 | |
| 1992 | 3,697 | 62.5 | 579 | 9.8 | 1,123 | 19.0 | 298 | 5.0 | 218 | 3.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 5,915 | |
| 1993 | 3,924 | 59.0 | 851 | 12.8 | 1,330 | 20.0 | 334 | 5.0 | 217 | 3.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 6,656 | |
| 1994 | 3,232 | 57.1 | 767 | 13.6 | 1,165 | 20.6 | 283 | 5.0 | 210 | 3.7 | 3 | 0.1 | 5,660 | |
| 1995 | 3,170 | 61.2 | 614 | 11.9 | 965 | 18.6 | 275 | 5.3 | 155 | 3.0 | 2 | 0.0 | 5,181 | |
| 1996 | 4,388 | 59.7 | 972 | 13.2 | 1,440 | 19.6 | 466 | 6.3 | 83 | 1.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 7,349 | |
| 1997 | 3,932 | 55.1 | 1430 | 20.0 | 1,534 | 21.5 | 204 | 2.9 | 39 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 7,139 | |
| 1998 | 4,546 | 55.4 | 1577 | 19.2 | 1,560 | 19.0 | 422 | 5.1 | 94 | 1.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 8,199 | |
| 1999 | 5,809 | 65.0 | 1307 | 14.6 | 1,409 | 15.8 | 365 | 4.1 | 48 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 8,938 | |
| © ‚Q‚O‚O‚SC KRI (Kusaka Research Institute) | ||||||||||||||
| Source: | ||||||||||||||
| Prisons Statistics 2000, Department of Prisons | ||||||||||||||
| Revised: 2004(y)/01(m)/12(d) | ||||||||||||||
| Chief Editor: | ||||||||||||||
| Dr. Milton Rajaratne (B.Com., M.Sc., Ph.D.) | ||||||||||||||
| The former Head, Department of Management Studies | ||||||||||||||
| University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||||