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The population of Sri Lanka increased substantially during the eight decades of this century, mainly due to rapidly declining mortality. Colonial development of the Wet Zone, where foreign-controlled plantations were located, has since been replaced by an emphasis on the Dry Zone where a number of development projects were initiated by the government. Past migration trends resulted in a complex ethnic composition of population which is discussed in the latter part of the paper.
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Abayasekara, A.W.A.D.G. (1985). Population Growth and Redistribution in Sri Lanka, 1901–1981. In: Kosiński, L.A., Elahi, K.M. (eds) Population Redistribution and Development in South Asia. GeoJournal Library, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5309-3_9
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