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- People
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- Population: 118,819,377 (July 1990), growth rate 3.0% (1990).
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- Birth rate: 46 births/1,000 population (1990).
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- Death rate: 17 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
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- Net migration rate: 1 migrant/1,000 population (1990).
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- Infant mortality rate: 119 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
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- Life expectancy at birth: 48 years male, 49 years female (1990).
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- Total fertility rate: 6.5 children born/woman (1990).
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- Nationality: noun--Nigerian(s); adjective--Nigerian.
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- Ethnic divisions: more than 250 tribal groups; Hausa and
- Fulani of the north, Yoruba of the southwest, and Ibos of
- the southeast make up 65% of the population; about 27,000
- non-Africans.
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- Religion: 50% Muslim, 40% Christian, 10% indigenous beliefs.
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- Language: English (official); Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo, Fulani,
- and several other languages also widely used.
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- Literacy: 42.4%.
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- Labor force: 42,844,000; 54% agriculture, 19% industry,
- commerce, and services, 15% government; 49% of population
- of working age (1985).
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- Organized labor: 3,520,000 wage earners belong to 42 recognized
- trade unions, which come under a single national labor federation--
- the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC).
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