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- Equatorial Guinea: People
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- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Equatorial Guinea
- People</hdr><body>
- <p>Population: 399,055 (July 1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Population growth rate: 2.6% (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Birth rate: 41.1 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
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- <p>Death rate: 15.11 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
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- <p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Infant mortality rate: 104.9 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
- est.)
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- <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
- <l> total population: 51.63 years</l>
- <l> male: 49.56 years</l>
- <l> female: 53.76 years (1993 est.)</l>
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- <p>Total fertility rate: 5.33 children born/woman (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Nationality:</l>
- <l> noun: Equatorial Guinean(s) or Equatoguinean(s)</l>
- <l> adjective: Equatorial Guinean or Equatoguinean</l>
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- <p>Ethnic divisions: Bioko (primarily Bubi, some Fernandinos),
- Rio Muni (primarily Fang), Europeans less than 1,000, mostly
- Spanish
- </p>
- <p>Religions: nominally Christian and predominantly Roman
- Catholic, pagan practices
- </p>
- <p>Languages: Spanish (official), pidgin English, Fang, Bubi, Ibo
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- <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
- <l> total population: 50%</l>
- <l> male: 64%</l>
- <l> female: 37%</l>
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- <p>Labor force: 172,000 (1986 est.)
- </p>
- <p> by occupation: agriculture 66%, services 23%, industry 11%
- (1980)
- </p>
- <p>note: labor shortages on plantations; 58% of population of
- working age (1985)
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