hat found in many countries with more developed economies than that in Sri Lanka.
A comparison of population-related factors for Sri Lanka with those of other Asian region countries--China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan--is presented in Table 1, which may be found on the following page. A comparison of literacy and health-related factors for Sri Lanka with those of the other countries is presented in Table 2, which may be found on page 6.
Sri Lanka's population approximates 17 million, of whom about 73 percent are Sinhelese and approximately 20 percent are Tamil. The tensions between the majority Sinhelese and the Tamil minority are significant.
Sri Lanka's literacy rate is high because of the general quality of the country's educational system (in spite of the ethnic conflicts that rock both the country and its educational system), the emphasis placed by the government on both primary and secondary
...