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  1.                                                                                 People
  2.  
  3. Population: 114,694 (July 1992), growth rate 3.4% (1992)
  4.  
  5. Birth rate: 29 births/1,000 population (1992)
  6.  
  7. Death rate: 7 deaths/1,000 population (1992)
  8.  
  9. Net migration rate: 12 migrants/1,000 population (1992)
  10.  
  11. Infant mortality rate: 39 deaths/1,000 live births (1992)
  12.  
  13. Life expectancy at birth: 65 years male, 69 years female (1992)
  14.  
  15. Total fertility rate: 4.1 children born/woman (1992)
  16.  
  17. Nationality: noun - Micronesian(s); adjective - Micronesian;
  18. Kosrae(s), Pohnpeian(s), Trukese (singular and plural), Yapese
  19. (singular and plural)
  20.  
  21. Ethnic divisions: nine ethnic Micronesian and Polynesian groups
  22.  
  23. Religions: predominantly Christian, divided between Roman
  24. Catholic and Protestant; other churches include Assembly of
  25. God, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventist, Latter-Day
  26. Saints, and the Baha'i Faith
  27.  
  28. Languages: English is the official and common language; most
  29. indigenous languages fall within the Austronesian language
  30. family, the exceptions are the Polynesian languages; major
  31. indigenous languages are Trukese, Pohnpeian, Yapese, and Kosrean
  32.  
  33. Literacy: 90% (male 90%, female 85%) age 15 and over can read
  34. and write (1980)
  35.  
  36. Labor force: NA; two-thirds are government employees; 45,000
  37. people are between the ages of 15 and 65
  38.  
  39. Organized labor: NA  
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