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- <text id=94CT0153><title>Belize—People</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Belize<nl>People</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Population:</hi> 208,949 (July 1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Population growth rate:</hi> 2.42% (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Birth rate:</hi> 34.74 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Death rate:</hi> 6 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Net migration rate:</hi> -4.56 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Infant mortality rate:</hi> 35.6 deaths/1,000 live births (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Life expectancy at birth:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 68.08 years
- <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 66.14 years
- <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 70.12 years (1994 est.)
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- <item><hi format=bold>Total fertility rate:</hi> 4.39 children born/woman (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Nationality:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>noun:</hi> Belizean(s)
- <item>• <hi format=ital>adjective:</hi> Belizean
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- <item><hi format=bold>Ethnic divisions:</hi> mestizo 44%, Creole 30%, Maya 11%, Garifuna 7%, other 8%
- <item><hi format=bold>Religions:</hi> Roman Catholic 62%, Protestant 30% (Anglican 12%, Methodist 6%, Mennonite 4%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3%, Pentecostal 2%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1%, other 2%), none 2%, other 6% (1980)
- <item><hi format=bold>Languages:</hi> English (official), Spanish, Maya, Garifuna (Carib)
- <item><hi format=bold>Literacy:</hi> age 15 and over having ever attended school (1970)
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 91%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 91%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 91%
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- <item><hi format=bold>Labor force:</hi> 51,500
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>by occupation:</hi> agriculture 30%, services 16%, government 15.4%, commerce 11.2%, manufacturing 10.3%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>note:</hi> shortage of skilled labor and all types of technical personnel (1985)
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