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<text>
<title>
Albania: People
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Albania
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 3,333,839 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 1.21% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 23.24 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 5.45 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: -5.67 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 31.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 73 years</l>
<l> male: 70.01 years</l>
<l> female: 76.21 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 2.85 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Albanian(s)</l>
<l> adjective: Albanian</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: Albanian 90%, Greeks 8%, other 2% (Vlachs,
Gypsies, Serbs, and Bulgarians) (1989 est.)
</p>
<p>Religions: Muslim 70%, Greek Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10%
</p>
<p>note: all mosques and churches were closed in 1967 and
religious observances prohibited; in November 1990, Albania
began allowing private religious practice
</p>
<p>Languages: Albanian (Tosk is the official dialect), Greek
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 9 and over can read and write (1955)</l>
<l> total population: 72%</l>
<l> male: 80%</l>
<l> female: 63%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 1.5 million (1987)
</p>
<p> by occupation: agriculture 60%, industry and commerce 40%
(1986)
</p></body></article></text>