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- <text id=94CT0243><title>Burundi—People</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Burundi<nl>People</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Population:</hi> 6,124,747 (July 1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Population growth rate:</hi> 2.26% (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Birth rate:</hi> 44.02 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Death rate:</hi> 21.38 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Net migration rate:</hi> 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Infant mortality rate:</hi> 113.7 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> 40.3 years
- <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 38.31 years
- <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 42.35 years (1994 est.)
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- <item><hi format=bold>Total fertility rate:</hi> 6.69 children born/woman (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Nationality:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>noun:</hi> Burundian(s)
- <item>• <hi format=ital>adjective:</hi> Burundi
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- <item><hi format=bold>Ethnic divisions:</hi>
- <item><hi format=bold>Africans:</hi> Hutu (Bantu) 85%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 14%, Twa (Pygmy) 1% (other Africans include about 70,000 refugees, mostly Rwandans and Zairians)
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>non-Africans:</hi> Europeans 3,000, South Asians 2,000
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- <item><hi format=bold>Religions:</hi> Christian 67% (Roman Catholic 62%, Protestant 5%), indigenous beliefs 32%, Muslim 1%
- <item><hi format=bold>Languages:</hi> Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)
- <item><hi format=bold>Literacy:</hi> age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 50%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 61%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 40%
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- <item><hi format=bold>Labor force:</hi> 1.9 million (1983 est.)
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>by occupation:</hi> agriculture 93.0%, government 4.0%, industry and commerce 1.5%, services 1.5%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>note:</hi> 52% of population of working age (1985)
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