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- Comoros: People
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- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Comoros
- People</hdr><body>
- <p>Population: 511,651 (July 1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Population growth rate: 3.54% (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Birth rate: 46.75 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Death rate: 11.31 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Infant mortality rate: 81.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
- est.)
- </p>
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- <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
- <l> total population: 57.35 years</l>
- <l> male: 55.23 years</l>
- <l> female: 59.55 years (1993 est.)</l>
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- <p>Total fertility rate: 6.86 children born/woman (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Nationality:</l>
- <l> noun: Comoran(s)</l>
- <l> adjective: Comoran</l>
- </list>
- <p>Ethnic divisions: Antalote, Cafre, Makoa, Oimatsaha, Sakalava
- </p>
- <p>Religions: Sunni Muslim 86%, Roman Catholic 14%
- </p>
- <p>Languages: Arabic (official), French (official), Comoran (a
- blend of Swahili and Arabic)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980)</l>
- <l> total population: 48%</l>
- <l> male: 56%</l>
- <l> female: 40%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Labor force: 140,000 (1982)
- </p>
- <p> by occupation: agriculture 80%, government 3%
- </p>
- <p>note: 51% of population of working age (1985)
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