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- People
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- Population: 5,238,908 (July 1992), growth rate 2.1% (1992)
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- Birth rate: 42 births/1,000 population (1992)
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- Death rate: 21 deaths/1,000 population (1992)
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- Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1992)
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- Infant mortality rate: 136 deaths/1,000 live births (1992)
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- Life expectancy at birth: 39 years male, 41 years female (1992)
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- Total fertility rate: 5.3 children born/woman (1992)
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- Nationality: noun - Chadian(s); adjective - Chadian
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- Ethnic divisions: some 200 distinct ethnic groups, most of whom
- are Muslims (Arabs, Toubou, Hadjerai, Fulbe, Kotoko, Kanembou,
- Baguirmi, Boulala, Zaghawa, and Maba) in the north and center
- and non-Muslims (Sara, Ngambaye, Mbaye, Goulaye, Moundang,
- Moussei, Massa) in the south; some 150,000 nonindigenous, of
- whom 1,000 are French
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- Religions: Muslim 44%, Christian 33%, indigenous beliefs,
- animism 23%
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- Languages: French and Arabic (official); Sara and Sango in
- south; more than 100 different languages and dialects are spoken
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- Literacy: 30% (male 42%, female 18%) age 15 and over can read
- and write French or Arabic (1990 est.)
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- Labor force: NA; agriculture (engaged in unpaid subsistence
- farming, herding, and fishing) 85%
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- Organized labor: about 20% of wage labor force
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