Vanniyar History Rudolph noted that, although "necessarily tentative" because of being based on figures from the 1931 census, the Vanniyars in the 1980s constituted around 10% of the population of Tamil Nadu, being particularly prevalent in the northernmost districts of Chingelput, North Arcot, South Arcot and Salem, where they formed around 25% of the population.[9] Vanniyar/Palli constituted 30% of the population of Pondicherry in the nineteenth century. Country Tamil Population Year United States 341,396 2021 estimates South Africa 250,000 2018 estimates Canada 237,890 2021 census Singapore 198,449 2020 census Culture-Heritage The inhabitants of the