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<text id=94CT0816><title>Lesotho—People</title> <article><source>CIA Factbook</source> <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Lesotho<nl>People</hdr><body> <list> <item><hi format=bold>Population:</hi> 1,944,493 (July 1994 est.) <item><hi format=bold>Population growth rate:</hi> 2.48% (1994 est.) <item><hi format=bold>Birth rate:</hi> 34 births/1,000 population (1994 est.) <item><hi format=bold>Death rate:</hi> 9.19 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> 69.5 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> 62.14 years <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 60.32 years <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 64.01 years (1994 est.) </list> <item><hi format=bold>Total fertility rate:</hi> 4.5 children born/woman (1994 est.) <item><hi format=bold>Nationality:</hi> <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>noun:</hi> Mosotho (singular), Basotho (plural) <item>• <hi format=ital>adjective:</hi> Basotho </list> <item><hi format=bold>Ethnic divisions:</hi> Sotho 99.7%, Europeans 1,600, Asians 800 <item><hi format=bold>Religions:</hi> Christian 80%, rest indigenous beliefs <item><hi format=bold>Languages:</hi> Sesotho (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa <item><hi format=bold>Literacy:</hi> age 15 and over can read and write (1966) <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 59% <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 44% <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 68% </list> <item><hi format=bold>Labor force:</hi> 689,000 economically active <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>by occupation:</hi> 86.2% of resident population engaged in subsistence agriculture; roughly 60% of active male labor force works in South Africa </list></list></body></article></text>