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- People
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- Population: 3,958,863 (July 1992), growth rate 3.6% (1992)
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- Birth rate: 48 births/1,000 population (1992)
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- Death rate: 12 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: 94 deaths/1,000 live births (1992)
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- Life expectancy at birth: 54 years male, 58 years female (1992)
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- Total fertility rate: 7.0 children born/woman (1992)
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- Nationality: noun - Togolese (singular and plural); adjective -
- Togolese
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- Ethnic divisions: 37 tribes; largest and most important are
- Ewe, Mina, and Kabye; under 1% European and Syrian-Lebanese
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- Religions: indigenous beliefs about 70%, Christian 20%, Muslim
- 10%
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- Languages: French, both official and language of commerce;
- major African languages are Ewe and Mina in the south and
- Dagomba and Kabye in the north
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- Literacy: 43% (male 56%, female 31%) age 15 and over can read
- and write (1990 est.)
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- Labor force: NA; agriculture 78%, industry 22%; about 88,600
- wage earners, evenly divided between public and private
- sectors; 50% of population of working age (1985)
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- Organized labor: Federation of Togolese Workers (CNTT) was only
- legal labor union until Spring 1991; at least two more groups
- established since then: Federation of Togolese Workers (CSTT)
- and the National Union of Independent Syndicates (UNSIT), each
- with 10-12 member unions; four other civil service unions have
- formed a loose coalition known as the Autonomous Syndicates of
- Togo (CTSA)
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