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- <text id=93CT1392>
- <title>
- Tonga--People
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tonga
- People</hdr><body>
- <p>Population: 103,949 (July 1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Population growth rate: 0.8% (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Birth rate: 25.16 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Death rate: 6.75 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Net migration rate: -10.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
- est.)
- </p>
- <p>Infant mortality rate: 21.38 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
- est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
- <l> total population: 67.79 years</l>
- <l> male: 65.5 years</l>
- <l> female: 70.24 years (1993 est.)</l>
- </list>
- <p>Total fertility rate: 3.68 children born/woman (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Nationality:</l>
- <l> noun: Tongan(s)</l>
- <l> adjective: Tongan</l>
- </list>
- <p>Ethnic divisions: Polynesian, Europeans about 300
- </p>
- <p>Religions: Christian (Free Wesleyan Church claims over 30,000
- adherents)
- </p>
- <p>Languages: Tongan, English
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1976)</l>
- <l> total population: 57%</l>
- <l> male: 60%</l>
- <l> female: 60%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Labor force: NA
- </p>
- <p> by occupation: agriculture 70%, mining (600 engaged in
- mining)
- </p></body></article></text>
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