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  1. <text>
  2. <title>
  3. Vietnam: People
  4. </title>
  5. <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Vietnam
  6. People</hdr><body>
  7. <p>Population: 71,787,608 (July 1993 est.)
  8. </p>
  9. <p>Population growth rate: 1.85% (1993 est.)
  10. </p>
  11. <p>Birth rate: 27.99 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  12. </p>
  13. <p>Death rate: 7.92 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  14. </p>
  15. <p>Net migration rate: -1.56 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
  16. est.)
  17. </p>
  18. <p>Infant mortality rate: 46.4 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
  19. est.)
  20. </p>
  21. <list>
  22. <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
  23. <l>  total population: 65.1 years</l>
  24. <l>  male: 63.08 years</l>
  25. <l>  female: 67.25 years (1993 est.)</l>
  26. </list>
  27. <p>Total fertility rate: 3.45 children born/woman (1993 est.)
  28. </p>
  29. <list>
  30. <l>Nationality:</l>
  31. <l>  noun: Vietnamese (singular and plural)</l>
  32. <l>  adjective: Vietnamese</l>
  33. </list>
  34. <p>Ethnic divisions: Vietnamese 85-90%, Chinese 3%, Muong, Thai,
  35. Meo, Khmer, Man, Cham
  36. </p>
  37. <p>Religions: Buddhist, Taoist, Roman Catholic, indigenous
  38. beliefs, Islamic, Protestant
  39. </p>
  40. <p>Languages: Vietnamese (official), French, Chinese, English,
  41. Khmer, tribal languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
  42. </p>
  43. <list>
  44. <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
  45. <l>  total population: 88%</l>
  46. <l>  male: 92%</l>
  47. <l>  female: 84%</l>
  48. </list>
  49. <p>Labor force: 32.7 million
  50. </p>
  51. <p>  by occupation: agricultural 65%, industrial and service 35%
  52. (1990 est.)
  53. </p></body></article></text>
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