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- People
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- Population: 2,639,809 (July 1990), growth rate 3.4% (1990).
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- Birth rate: 45 births/1,000 population (1990).
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- Death rate: 14 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
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- Net migration rate: 2 migrants/1,000 population (1990).
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- Infant mortality rate: 126 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
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- Life expectancy at birth: 54 years male, 58 years female (1990).
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- Total fertility rate: 6.6 children born/woman (1990).
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- Nationality: noun--Liberian(s); adjective--Liberian.
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- Ethnic divisions: 95% indigenous African tribes, including
- Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, Krahn, Gola, Gbandi,
- Loma, Kissi, Vai, and Bella; 5% descendants of repatriated
- slaves known as Americo-Liberians.
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- Religion: 70% traditional, 20% Muslim, 10% Christian.
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- Language: English (official); more than 20 local languages
- of the Niger-Congo language group; English used by about 20%.
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- Literacy: 35%.
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- Labor force: 510,000, including 220,000 in the monetary
- economy; 70.5% agriculture, 10.8% services, 4.5% industry
- and commerce, 14.2% other; non-African foreigners hold about
- 95% of the top-level management and engineering jobs; 52% of
- population of working age.
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- Organized labor: 2% of labor force.
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