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	Table  51A(Pop., Birth)
	Live Births (District)(Crude Birth Rate) (2001 - 2007)
	pop51ae					(/ 1,000 Persons)
District	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007(a)
Colombo	27.1	27.0	27.3	27.1	27.2	25.4	23.3
Gampaha	13.3	12.6	12.4	12.4	13.7	13.3	13.5
Kalutara	15.7	15.2	14.7	15.6	15.3	15.0	15.1
Kandy	22.9	22.8	22.9	22.8	22.4	22.7	21.3
Matale	20.3	19.5	20.0	20.4	19.7	19.6	20.2
Nuwara Eliya	15.3	16.3	15.9	15.2	14.5	15.2	15.8
Galle	18.7	19.1	19.2	19.3	18.1	19.2	20.2
Matara	19.7	18.7	18.5	18.2	18.0	18.7	18.1
Hambantota	12.5	12.8	13.6	14.2	14.1	15.7	16.4
Jaffna	16.7	14.1	19.4	17.8	17.2	15.6	14.4
Mullaitivu	38.1	26.6	33.5	15.4	153.9	18.2	21.4
Mannar	11.5	17.9	12.1	20.3	20.8	22.2	17.0
Vavuniya	21.4	23.1	27.4	27.1	23.9	18.3	18.1
Kilinochchi	24.7	23.5	29.0	18.1	19.8	26.7	29.4
Ampara	19.2	19.3	19.2	19.6	21.4	23.1	24.8
Batticaloa	23.1	23.5	25.1	20.4	20.6	20.8	23.2
Trincomalee	24.9	24.7	21.5	21.1	21.7	19.5	24.0
Kurunegala	15.6	17.1	15.9	15.7	18.4	17.1	17.4
Puttalam	17.5	19.9	17.1	16.9	17.3	16.6	20.5
Anuradhapura	19.6	20.7	20.2	19.9	19.3	19.6	20.7
Polonnaruwa	18.9	20.0	19.3	18.8	20.0	19.1	19.2
Badulla	23.5	23.1	20.6	22.0	21.8	20.0	22.4
Moneragala	14.8	17.2	16.2	15.6	15.1	15.4	15.8
Ratnapura	17.9	19.2	17.8	17.2	18.3	18.8	18.7
Kegalle	13.4	13.0	11.9	11.2	11.5	14.8	15.4
Sri Lanka	18.9	19.1	18.9	18.5	18.8	18.7	19.0
© ２００９， KRI (Kusaka Research Institute)
Source:
Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Key:
(a)  Provisional
Revised:  2009(y)/10(m)/10(d)
Chief Editor:
Dr. Milton Rajaratne (B.Com., M.Sc., Ph.D.)
The Head, Department of Management Studies
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka