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<title>
Korea, South: People
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Korea, South
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 44,613,993 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 1.05% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 15.72 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 6.16 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: 0.91 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 22.5 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 70.29 years</l>
<l> male: 67.1 years</l>
<l> female: 73.68 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 1.64 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Korean(s)</l>
<l> adjective: Korean</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese)
</p>
<p>Religions: Christianity 48.6%, Buddhism 47.4%, Confucianism 3%,
pervasive folk religion (Shamanism), Chondogyo (religion of the
heavenly way) 0.2%
</p>
<p>Languages: Korean, English widely taught in high school
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
<l> total population: 96%</l>
<l> male: 99%</l>
<l> female: 94%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 19 million
</p>
<p> by occupation: services and other 52%, mining and manufacturing
27%, agriculture, fishing, forestry 21% (1991)
</p></body></article></text>