<item><hi format=bold>Birth rate:</hi> 22.54 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Death rate:</hi> 6.61 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Net migration rate:</hi> 2.12 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Infant mortality rate:</hi> 25.07 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> 71.01 years
<item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 69.14 years
<item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 73.02 years (1994 est.)
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<item><hi format=bold>Total fertility rate:</hi> 2.91 children born/woman (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Nationality:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>noun:</hi> Palauan(s)
<item>• <hi format=ital>adjective:</hi> Palauan
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<item><hi format=bold>Ethnic divisions:</hi> Palauans are a composite of Polynesian, Malayan, and Melanesian races
<item><hi format=bold>Religions:</hi> Christian (Catholics, Seventh-Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Assembly of God, the Liebenzell Mission, and Latter-Day Saints), Modekngei religion (one-third of the population observes this religion which is indigenous to Palau)
<item><hi format=bold>Languages:</hi> English (official in all of Palau's 16 states), Sonsorolese (official in the state of Sonsoral), Angaur and Japanese (in the state of Anguar), Tobi (in the state of Tobi), Palauan (in the other 13 states)
<item><hi format=bold>Literacy:</hi> age 15 and over can read and write (1980)