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  1.  People
  2.  
  3. Population: 257,023 (July 1990), growth rate 1.1% (1990).
  4.  
  5. Birth rate: 18 births/1,000 population (1990).
  6.  
  7. Death rate: 7 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
  8.  
  9. Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1990).
  10.  
  11. Infant mortality rate: 7 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
  12.  
  13. Life expectancy at birth: 75 years male, 80 years female (1990).
  14.  
  15. Total fertility rate: 2.2 children born/woman (1990).
  16.  
  17. Nationality: noun--Icelander(s); adjective--Icelandic.
  18.  
  19. Ethnic divisions: homogeneous mixture of descendants of 
  20. Norwegians and Celts.
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  22. Religion: 95% Evangelical Lutheran, 3% other Protestant 
  23. and Roman Catholic, 2% no affiliation.
  24.  
  25. Language: Icelandic.
  26.  
  27. Literacy: 100%.
  28.  
  29. Labor force: 134,429; 55.4% commerce, finance, and services, 
  30. 14.3% other manufacturing, 5.8% agriculture, 7.9% fish processing, 
  31. 5.0% fishing (1986).
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  33. Organized labor: 60% of labor force.
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