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- <text id=94CT1021><title>Netherlands—People</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Netherlands<nl>People</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Population:</hi> 15,367,928 (July 1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Population growth rate:</hi> 0.58% (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Birth rate:</hi> 12.62 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Death rate:</hi> 8.5 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Net migration rate:</hi> 1.68 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Infant mortality rate:</hi> 6.1 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> 77.75 years
- <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 74.69 years
- <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 80.97 years (1994 est.)
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- <item><hi format=bold>Total fertility rate:</hi> 1.58 children born/woman (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Nationality:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>noun:</hi> Dutchman(men), Dutchwoman(women)
- <item>• <hi format=ital>adjective:</hi> Dutch
- </list>
- <item><hi format=bold>Ethnic divisions:</hi> Dutch 96%, Moroccans, Turks, and other 4% (1988)
- <item><hi format=bold>Religions:</hi> Roman Catholic 34%, Protestant 25%, Muslim 3%, other 2%, unaffiliated 36% (1991)
- <item><hi format=bold>Languages:</hi> Dutch
- <item><hi format=bold>Literacy:</hi> age 15 and over can read and write (1979 est.)
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 99%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> NA%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> NA%
- </list>
- <item><hi format=bold>Labor force:</hi> 6.7 million (1991)
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>by occupation:</hi> services 50.1%, manufacturing and construction 28.2%, government 15.9%, agriculture 5.8% (1986)
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