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  1.  People
  2.  
  3. Population: 57,664,405 (July 1990), growth rate 0.2% (1990).
  4.  
  5. Birth rate: 10 births/1,000 population (1990).
  6.  
  7. Death rate: 9 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
  8.  
  9. Net migration rate: 1 migrant/1,000 population (1990).
  10.  
  11. Infant mortality rate: 6 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
  12.  
  13. Life expectancy at birth: 74 years male, 81 years female (1990).
  14.  
  15. Total fertility rate: 1.4 children born/woman (1990).
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  17. Nationality: noun--Italian(s); adjective--Italian.
  18.  
  19. Ethnic divisions: primarily Italian but population includes 
  20. small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians 
  21. in the north and Albanian-Italians in the south; Sicilians; 
  22. Sardinians.
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  24. Religion: almost 100% nominally Roman Catholic.
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  26. Language: Italian; parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region are 
  27. predominantly German speaking; significant French-speaking 
  28. minority in Valle d'Aosta region; Slovene-speaking minority 
  29. in the Trieste-Gorizia area.
  30.  
  31. Literacy: 93%.
  32.  
  33. Labor force: 23,670,000; 56.7% services, 37.9% industry, 
  34. 5.4% agriculture (1987).
  35.  
  36. Organized labor: 40-45% of labor force (est.).
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