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  1. <text>
  2. <title>
  3. Belgium: People
  4. </title>
  5. <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Belgium
  6. People</hdr><body>
  7. <p>Population: 10,040,939 (July 1993 est.)
  8. </p>
  9. <p>Population growth rate: 0.23% (1993 est.)
  10. </p>
  11. <p>Birth rate: 11.94 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  12. </p>
  13. <p>Death rate: 10.32 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  14. </p>
  15. <p>Net migration rate: 0.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
  16. est.)
  17. </p>
  18. <p>Infant mortality rate: 7.4 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
  19. est.)
  20. </p>
  21. <list>
  22. <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
  23. <l>  total population: 76.72 years</l>
  24. <l>  male: 73.41 years</l>
  25. <l>  female: 80.21 years (1993 est.)</l>
  26. </list>
  27. <p>Total fertility rate: 1.62 children born/woman (1993 est.)
  28. </p>
  29. <list>
  30. <l>Nationality:</l>
  31. <l>  noun: Belgian(s)</l>
  32. <l>  adjective: Belgian</l>
  33. </list>
  34. <p>Ethnic divisions: Fleming 55%, Walloon 33%, mixed or other 12%
  35. </p>
  36. <p>Religions: Roman Catholic 75%, Protestant or other 25%
  37. </p>
  38. <p>Languages: Flemish (Dutch) 56%, French 32%, German 1%, legally
  39. bilingual 11% divided along ethnic lines
  40. </p>
  41. <list>
  42. <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980)</l>
  43. <l>  total population: 99%</l>
  44. <l>  male: NA%</l>
  45. <l>  female: NA%</l>
  46. </list>
  47. <p>Labor force: 4.126 million
  48. </p>
  49. <p>  by occupation: services 63.6%, industry 28%, construction
  50. 6.1%, agriculture 2.3% (1988)
  51. </p></body></article></text>
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