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- People
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- Population: 41,840 (July 1990), growth rate 2.9% (1990).
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- Birth rate: 41 births/1,000 population (1990).
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- Death rate: 4 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
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- Net migration rate: -8 immigrants/1,000 population (1990).
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- Infant mortality rate: 11 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
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- Life expectancy at birth: 69 years male, 74 years female
- (1990).
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- Total fertility rate: 5.4 children born/woman (1990).
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- Nationality: noun--American Samoan(s); adjective--American
- Samoan.
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- Ethnic divisions: 90% Samoan (Polynesian), 2% Caucasian,
- 2% Tongan, 6% other.
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- Religion: about 50% Christian Congregationalist, 20% Roman
- Catholic, 30% mostly Protestant denominations and other.
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- Language: Samoan (closely related to Hawaiian and other
- Polynesian languages) and English; most people are bilingual.
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- Literacy: 99%.
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- Labor force: 10,000; 48% government, 33% tuna canneries,
- 19% other (1986 est.).
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- Organized labor: NA.
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- Note: about 65,000 American Samoans live in the States of
- California and Washington and 20,000 in Hawaii
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