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- <text id=94CT1512><title>Venezuela—People</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Venezuela<nl>People</hdr><body>
- <list>
- <item><hi format=bold>Population:</hi> 20,562,405 (July 1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Population growth rate:</hi> 2.16% (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Birth rate:</hi> 25.74 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Death rate:</hi> 4.63 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Net migration rate:</hi> 0.47 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Infant mortality rate:</hi> 27.7 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> 73 years
- <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 70.12 years
- <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 76.03 years (1994 est.)
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- <item><hi format=bold>Total fertility rate:</hi> 3.05 children born/woman (1994 est.)
- <item><hi format=bold>Nationality:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>noun:</hi> Venezuelan(s)
- <item>• <hi format=ital>adjective:</hi> Venezuelan
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- <item><hi format=bold>Ethnic divisions:</hi> mestizo 67%, white 21%, black 10%, Indian 2%
- <item><hi format=bold>Religions:</hi> nominally Roman Catholic 96%, Protestant 2%
- <item><hi format=bold>Languages:</hi> Spanish (official), Indian dialects spoken by about 200,000 Amerindians in the remote interior
- <item><hi format=bold>Literacy:</hi> age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 88%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 87%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 90%
- </list>
- <item><hi format=bold>Labor force:</hi> 5.8 million
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>by occupation:</hi> services 56%, industry 28%, agriculture 16% (1985)
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