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- <title>
- Sierra Leone: People
- </title>
- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Sierra Leone
- People</hdr><body>
- <p>Population: 4,510,571 (July 1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Population growth rate: 2.61% (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Birth rate: 45.47 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Death rate: 19.39 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Infant mortality rate: 145 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
- est.)
- </p>
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- <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
- <l> total population: 45.87 years</l>
- <l> male: 43.1 years</l>
- <l> female: 48.71 years (1993 est.)</l>
- </list>
- <p>Total fertility rate: 6.01 children born/woman (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Nationality:</l>
- <l> noun: Sierra Leonean(s)</l>
- <l> adjective: Sierra Leonean</l>
- </list>
- <p>Ethnic divisions: 13 native African tribes 99% (Temne 30%,
- Mende 30%, other 39%), Creole, European, Lebanese, and Asian 1%
- </p>
- <p>Religions: Muslim 30%, indigenous beliefs 30%, Christian 10%,
- other or none 30%
- </p>
- <p>Languages: English (official; regular use limited to literate
- minority), Mende principal vernacular in the south, Temne
- principal vernacular in the north, Krio the language of the
- re-settled ex-slave population of the Freetown area and is
- lingua franca
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write English, Merde,
- Temne, or Arabic (1990)</l>
- <l> total population: 21%</l>
- <l> male: 31%</l>
- <l> female: 11%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Labor force: 1.369 million (1981 est.)
- </p>
- <p> by occupation: agriculture 65%, industry 19%, services 16%
- (1981 est.)
- </p>
- <p>note: only about 65,000 wage earners (1985); 55% of population
- of working age
- </p></body></article></text>
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