A study on demographic characteristics of Tibetan rehabilitants and their livelihood activities was undertaken in Mundgod taluk of Uttar Kannada district during 2009-10. One hundred and thirty five respondents were selected by adopting simple random sampling. Results revealed that 47.40 per cent of the Tibetan rehabilitants studied upto primary school and majority (92.60 %) of them were married. Majority of the respondents (55.56%) belonged to medium level of family size and 39.25 per cent of them had semi-medium level of annual income (` 17,001-34,000). Majority of the respondents (66.67%) had medium extension contact, 51.12% had medium economic motivation and 54.07 per cent of them had medium risk orientation. Majority of the respondents (62.96%) had no livestock possession, 55.56% had no training and 64.45 per cent of them had high level of social participation. Majority of the respondents (75.56%) regularly participated in the marriage programmes. A considerable per cent of the Tibetan rehabilitants (31.12%) had preferred agriculture + dairy as their livelihood practice and majority of them (52.38%) had been in the agriculture + dairy for more than 20 years and more than 71.00 per cent of the respondents with agriculture + dairy had been involved in these activities throughout the year.