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  1. <text id=93CT1553>
  2. <title>
  3. Western Samoa--People
  4. </title>
  5. <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Western Samoa
  6. People</hdr><body>
  7. <p>Population: 199,652 (July 1993 est.)
  8. </p>
  9. <p>Population growth rate: 2.37% (1993 est.)
  10. </p>
  11. <p>Birth rate: 33 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  12. </p>
  13. <p>Death rate: 6.17 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  14. </p>
  15. <p>Net migration rate: -3.14 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
  16. est.)
  17. </p>
  18. <p>Infant mortality rate: 38.6 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
  19. est.)
  20. </p>
  21. <list>
  22. <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
  23. <l>  total population: 67.58 years</l>
  24. <l>  male: 65.19 years</l>
  25. <l>  female: 70.08 years (1993 est.)</l>
  26. </list>
  27. <p>Total fertility rate: 4.28 children born/woman (1993 est.)
  28. </p>
  29. <list>
  30. <l>Nationality:</l>
  31. <l>  noun: Western Samoan(s)</l>
  32. <l>  adjective: Western Samoan</l>
  33. </list>
  34. <p>Ethnic divisions: Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of
  35. European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4%
  36. </p>
  37. <p>Religions: Christian 99.7% (about half of population
  38. associated with the London Missionary Society; includes
  39. Congregational, Roman Catholic, Methodist, Latter Day Saints,
  40. Seventh-Day Adventist)
  41. </p>
  42. <p>Languages: Samoan (Polynesian), English
  43. </p>
  44. <list>
  45. <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1971)</l>
  46. <l>  total population: 97%</l>
  47. <l>  male: 97%</l>
  48. <l>  female: 97%</l>
  49. </list>
  50. <p>Labor force: 38,000
  51. </p>
  52. <p>  by occupation: agriculture 22,000 (1987 est.)
  53. </p></body></article></text>
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