"The long-awaited figures on religious affiliation from Myanmar?s 2014 census were released earlier today, after a delay attributed to the contentious nature of the withheld data, particularly in regard to the size of Myanmar?s Muslim population. According to the figures released, Buddhists compromise 87.9 percent of Myanmar?s population, a decrease of 1.5pc over the past 30 years. The release also reported 6.2pc of the population as Christian, 4.3pc Muslim and 0.5pc of Hindu out of a total estimated population of 51.4 million. The census also identified 1.2 million people not enumerated, including over 1 million in Rakhine State alone. Myanmar?s previous census in 1983 demarcated 4.9pc of the country?s population as Christian and 3.9pc as Muslim, meaning there has been a slight slight increase in major non-Buddhist populations in the past 30 years. The Hindu population was also reported at 0.5pc in 1983..."