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- <text id=94CT1492><title>Uzbekistan—People</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Uzbekistan<nl>People</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Population:</hi> 22,608,866 (July 1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Population growth rate:</hi> 2.13% (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Birth rate:</hi> 30.01 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Death rate:</hi> 6.51 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Net migration rate:</hi> -2.22 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Infant mortality rate:</hi> 53.2 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> 68.58 years
- <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 65.28 years
- <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 72.04 years (1994 est.)
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- <item><hi format=bold>Total fertility rate:</hi> 3.73 children born/woman (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Nationality:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>noun:</hi> Uzbek(s)
- <item>• <hi format=ital>adjective:</hi> Uzbek
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- <item><hi format=bold>Ethnic divisions:</hi> Uzbek 71.4%, Russian 8.3%, Tajik 4.7%, Kazakh 4.1%, Tatar 2.4%, Karakalpak 2.1%, other 7%
- <item><hi format=bold>Religions:</hi> Muslim 88% (mostly Sunnis), Eastern Orthodox 9%, other 3%
- <item><hi format=bold>Languages:</hi> Uzbek 74.3%, Russian 14.2%, Tajik 4.4%, other 7.1%
- <item><hi format=bold>Literacy:</hi> age 9-49 can read and write (1970)
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 100%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 100%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 100%
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- <item><hi format=bold>Labor force:</hi> 8.234 million
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>by occupation:</hi> agriculture and forestry 43%, industry and construction 22%, other 35% (1992)
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