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<text>
<title>
Burma: People
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Burma
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 43,455,953 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 1.88% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 28.88 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 10.05 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 65.7 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 59.5 years</l>
<l> male: 57.5 years</l>
<l> female: 61.63 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 3.7 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Burmese (singular and plural)</l>
<l> adjective: Burmese</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: Burman 68%, Shan 9%, Karen 7%, Rakhine 4%,
Chinese 3%, Mon 2%, Indian 2%, other 5%
</p>
<p>Religions: Buddhist 89%, Christian 4% (Baptist 3%, Roman
Catholic 1%), Muslim 4%, animist beliefs 1%, other 2%
</p>
<p>Languages: Burmese; minority ethnic groups have their own
languages
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
<l> total population: 81%</l>
<l> male: 89%</l>
<l> female: 72%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 16.007 million (1992)
</p>
<p> by occupation: agriculture 65.2%, industry 14.3%, trade
10.1%, government 6.3%, other 4.1% (FY89 est.)
</p></body></article></text>