As of the 2010 Census, the population of the islands administered as Buru was 161,828 people, with about ⅔ in the northern regency and ⅓ in the southern;[REF] this number also includes some other small islands to the south.
Religious composition of the population is heterogeneous: the number of islanders practising Sunni Islam and Christianity is almost the same at about 40-45% each, and the rest - mainly residents of remote mountain areas - still follow traditional local cults or do not have a clear religious affiliation.