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<text id=94CT0700><title>Cote d'Ivoire—People</title> <article><source>CIA Factbook</source> <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Cote d'Ivoire<nl>People</hdr><body> <list> <item><hi format=bold>Population:</hi> 14,295,501 (July 1994 est.) <item><hi format=bold>Population growth rate:</hi> 3.44% (1994 est.) <item><hi format=bold>Birth rate:</hi> 46.52 births/1,000 population (1994 est.) <item><hi format=bold>Death rate:</hi> 15.01 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.) <item><hi format=bold>Net migration rate:</hi> 2.86 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.) <item><hi format=bold>Infant mortality rate:</hi> 95 deaths/1,000 live births (1994 est.) <item><hi format=bold>Life expectancy at birth:</hi> <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 48.92 years <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 46.75 years <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 51.16 years (1994 est.) </list> <item><hi format=bold>Total fertility rate:</hi> 6.67 children born/woman (1994 est.) <item><hi format=bold>Nationality:</hi> <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>noun:</hi> Ivorian(s) <item>• <hi format=ital>adjective:</hi> Ivorian </list> <item><hi format=bold>Ethnic divisions:</hi> Baoule 23%, Bete 18%, Senoufou 15%, Malinke 11%, Agni, foreign Africans (mostly Burkinabe and Malians, about 3 million), non-Africans 130,000 to 330,000 (French 30,000 and Lebanese 100,000 to 300,000) <item><hi format=bold>Religions:</hi> indigenous 25%, Muslim 60%, Christian 12% <item><hi format=bold>Languages:</hi> French (official), 60 native dialects Dioula is the most widely spoken <item><hi format=bold>Literacy:</hi> age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.) <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 54% <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 67% <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 40% </list> <item><hi format=bold>Labor force:</hi> 5.718 million <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>by occupation:</hi> over 85% of population engaged in agriculture, forestry, livestock raising; about 11% of labor force are wage earners, nearly half in agriculture and the remainder in government, industry, commerce, and professions <item>• <hi format=ital>note:</hi> 54% of population of working age (1985) </list></list></body></article></text>