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- <text id=93CT1380>
- <title>
- Togo--People
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Togo
- People</hdr><body>
- <p>Population: 4,104,657 (July 1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Population growth rate: 3.61% (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Birth rate: 47.87 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Death rate: 11.8 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Infant mortality rate: 91.3 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
- est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
- <l> total population: 56.46 years</l>
- <l> male: 54.45 years</l>
- <l> female: 58.53 years (1993 est.)</l>
- </list>
- <p>Total fertility rate: 6.96 children born/woman (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Nationality:</l>
- <l> noun: Togolese (singular and plural)</l>
- <l> adjective: Togolese</l>
- </list>
- <p>Ethnic divisions: 37 tribes; largest and most important are
- Ewe, Mina, and Kabye, European and Syrian-Lebanese under 1%
- </p>
- <p>Religions: indigenous beliefs 70%, Christian 20%, Muslim 10%
- </p>
- <p>Languages: French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe
- (one of the two major African languages in the south), Mina (one
- of the two major African languages in the south), Dagomba (one
- of the two major African languages in the north), Kabye (one of
- the two major African languages in the north)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
- <l> total population: 43%</l>
- <l> male: 56%</l>
- <l> female: 31%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Labor force: NA
- </p>
- <p> by occupation: agriculture 78%, industry 22%
- </p>
- <p>note: about 88,600 wage earners, evenly divided between public
- and private sectors; 50% of population of working age (1985)
- </p></body></article></text>
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