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- People
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- Population: 5,017,431 (July 1990), growth rate 2.1% (1990).
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- Birth rate: 42 births/1,000 population (1990).
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- Death rate: 22 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
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- Net migration rate: NEGL migrants/1,000 population (1990).
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- Infant mortality rate: 136 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
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- Life expectancy at birth: 38 years male, 40 years female (1990).
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- Total fertility rate: 5.3 children born/woman (1990).
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- Nationality: noun--Chadian(s); adjective--Chadian.
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- Ethnic divisions: some 200 distinct ethnic groups, most of whom
- are Muslims (Arabs, Toubou, Fulbe, Kotoko, Hausa, Kanembou,
- Baguirmi, Boulala, and Maba) in the north and center and non-Muslims
- (Sara, Ngambaye, Mbaye, Goulaye, Moudang, Moussei, Massa) in the
- south; some 150,000 nonindigenous, of whom 1,000 are French.
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- Religion: 44% Muslim, 33% Christian, 23% indigenous beliefs, animism.
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- Language: French and Arabic (official); Sara and Sango in south;
- more than 100 different languages and dialects are spoken.
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- Literacy: 25.3%.
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- Labor force: NA; 85% agriculture (engaged in unpaid subsistence
- farming, herding, and fishing).
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- Organized labor: about 20% of wage labor force.
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