7/7/2023 0 Comments Myanmar language demographic![]() ![]() The results of the Myanmar Population and Housing Census had been on hold since results were compiled, due to fears that they may inflame tensions between the country's Buddhist and Muslim populationsįigures released Thursday show that the country's Muslim population has fallen from 3.9 percent of the overall population in the 1983 census to just 2.3 percent - a figure that does not include around 1.2 million mostly Rohingya Muslims in western Rakhine State - who were not enumerated.Ĭountrywide, 89.8 percent registered as Buddhist, 6.3 percent as Christian, 2.3 percent as Muslim, 0.5 percent as Hindu, 0.8 percent as Animist, 0.2 percent as "other" and 0.1 percent as having no religion, according to the report. ![]() After a two-year-delay, the government of Myanmar has finally released controversial data on religion from a 2014 census.
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