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- <title>
- Swaziland: People
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- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Swaziland
- People</hdr><body>
- <p>Population: 906,932 (July 1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Population growth rate: 3.18% (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Birth rate: 43.22 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Death rate: 11.41 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Infant mortality rate: 95.7 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
- est.)
- </p>
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- <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
- <l> total population: 55.94 years</l>
- <l> male: 51.97 years</l>
- <l> female: 60.03 years (1993 est.)</l>
- </list>
- <p>Total fertility rate: 6.16 children born/woman (1993 est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Nationality:</l>
- <l> noun: Swazi(s)</l>
- <l> adjective: Swazi</l>
- </list>
- <p>Ethnic divisions: African 97%, European 3%
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- <p>Religions: Christian 60%, indigenous beliefs 40%
- </p>
- <p>Languages: English (official; government business conducted in
- English), siSwati (official)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1976)</l>
- <l> total population: 55%</l>
- <l> male: 57%</l>
- <l> female: 54%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Labor force: 195,000 (over 60,000 engaged in subsistence
- agriculture; about 92,000 wage earners - many only
- intermittently)
- </p>
- <p> by occupation: agriculture and forestry 36%, community and
- social service 20%, manufacturing 14%, construction 9%, other
- 21%
- </p>
- <p>note: 15,980 employed in South African gold and coal mines
- (1991)
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