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- <text id=94CT0254><title>Cameroon—People</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Cameroon<nl>People</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Population:</hi> 13,132,191 (July 1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Population growth rate:</hi> 2.91% (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Birth rate:</hi> 40.53 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Death rate:</hi> 11.41 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> 77.1 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> 57.07 years
- <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 55.03 years
- <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 59.17 years (1994 est.)
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- <item><hi format=bold>Total fertility rate:</hi> 5.84 children born/woman (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Nationality:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>noun:</hi> Cameroonian(s)
- <item>• <hi format=ital>adjective:</hi> Cameroonian
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- <item><hi format=bold>Ethnic divisions:</hi> Cameroon Highlanders 31%, Equatorial Bantu 19%, Kirdi 11%, Fulani 10%, Northwestern Bantu 8%, Eastern Nigritic 7%, other African 13%, non-African less than 1%
- <item><hi format=bold>Religions:</hi> indigenous beliefs 51%, Christian 33%, Muslim 16%
- <item><hi format=bold>Languages:</hi> 24 major African language groups, English (official), French (official)
- <item><hi format=bold>Literacy:</hi> age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 55%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 66%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 45%
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- <item><hi format=bold>Labor force:</hi> NA
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>by occupation:</hi> agriculture 74.4%, industry and transport 11.4%, other services 14.2% (1983)
- <item>• <hi format=ital>note:</hi> 50% of population of working age (15-64 years) (1985)
- </list></list></body></article></text>
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