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- People
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- Population: 1,299,301 (July 1992), growth rate 1.1% (1992)
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- Birth rate: 21 births/1,000 population (1992)
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- Death rate: 6 deaths/1,000 population (1992)
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- Net migration rate: -3 migrants/1,000 population (1992)
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- Infant mortality rate: 17 deaths/1,000 live births (1992)
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- Life expectancy at birth: 68 years male, 73 years female (1992)
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- Total fertility rate: 2.4 children born/woman (1992)
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- Nationality: noun - Trinidadian(s), Tobagonian(s); adjective -
- Trinidadian, Tobagonian
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- Ethnic divisions: black 43%, East Indian 40%, mixed 14%, white
- 1%, Chinese 1%, other 1%
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- Religions: Roman Catholic 32.2%, Hindu 24.3%, Anglican 14.4%,
- other Protestant 14%, Muslim 6%, none or unknown 9.1%
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- Languages: English (official), Hindi, French, Spanish
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- Literacy: 95% (male 97%, female 93%) age 15 and over can read
- and write (1980)
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- Labor force: 463,900; construction and utilities 18.1%;
- manufacturing, mining, and quarrying 14.8%; agriculture 10.9%;
- other 56.2% (1985 est.)
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- Organized labor: 22% of labor force (1988)
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