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  1. <text>
  2. <title>
  3. Singapore: People
  4. </title>
  5. <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Singapore
  6. People</hdr><body>
  7. <p>Population: 2,826,331 (July 1993 est.)
  8. </p>
  9. <p>Population growth rate: 1.19% (1993 est.)
  10. </p>
  11. <p>Birth rate: 17.12 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  12. </p>
  13. <p>Death rate: 5.25 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  14. </p>
  15. <p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  16. </p>
  17. <p>Infant mortality rate: 5.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
  18. est.)
  19. </p>
  20. <list>
  21. <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
  22. <l>  total population: 75.75 years</l>
  23. <l>  male: 73.07 years</l>
  24. <l>  female: 78.63 years (1993 est.)</l>
  25. </list>
  26. <p>Total fertility rate: 1.89 children born/woman (1993 est.)
  27. </p>
  28. <list>
  29. <l>Nationality:</l>
  30. <l>  noun: Singaporean(s)</l>
  31. <l>  adjective: Singapore</l>
  32. </list>
  33. <p>Ethnic divisions: Chinese 76.4%, Malay 14.9%, Indian 6.4%,
  34. other 2.3%
  35. </p>
  36. <p>Religions: Buddhist (Chinese), Atheist (Chinese), Muslim
  37. (Malays), Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Taoist, Confucianist
  38. </p>
  39. <p>Languages: Chinese (official), Malay (official and national),
  40. Tamil (official), English (official)
  41. </p>
  42. <list>
  43. <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
  44. <l>  total population: 88%</l>
  45. <l>  male: 93%</l>
  46. <l>  female: 84%</l>
  47. </list>
  48. <p>Labor force: 1,485,800
  49. </p>
  50. <p>  by occupation: financial, business, and other services
  51. 30.2%, manufacturing 28.4%, commerce 22.0%, construction 9.0%,
  52. other 10.4% (1990)
  53. </p></body></article></text>
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