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<text>
<title>
Korea, North: People
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Korea, North
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 22,645,811 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 1.86% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 24.09 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 5.52 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 28.6 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 69.51 years</l>
<l> male: 66.42 years</l>
<l> female: 72.75 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 2.4 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Korean(s)</l>
<l> adjective: Korean</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: racially homogeneous
</p>
<p>Religions: Buddhism and Confucianism, some Christianity and
syncretic Chondogyo
</p>
<p>note: autonomous religious activities now almost nonexistent;
government-sponsored religious groups exist to provide illusion of
religious freedom
</p>
<p>Languages: Korean
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
<l> total population: 99%</l>
<l> male: 99%</l>
<l> female: 99%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 9.615 million
</p>
<p> by occupation: agricultural 36%, nonagricultural 64%
</p>
<p>note: shortage of skilled and unskilled labor (mid-1987 est.)
</p></body></article></text>