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  1. <text>
  2. <title>
  3. France: People
  4. </title>
  5. <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: France
  6. People</hdr><body>
  7. <p>Population: 57,566,091 (July 1993 est.)
  8. </p>
  9. <p>Population growth rate: 0.48% (1993 est.)
  10. </p>
  11. <p>Birth rate: 13.24 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  12. </p>
  13. <p>Death rate: 9.3 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  14. </p>
  15. <p>Net migration rate: 0.87 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
  16. est.)
  17. </p>
  18. <p>Infant mortality rate: 6.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
  19. est.)
  20. </p>
  21. <list>
  22. <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
  23. <l>  total population: 78 years</l>
  24. <l>  male: 74.04 years</l>
  25. <l>  female: 82.16 years (1993 est.)</l>
  26. </list>
  27. <p>Total fertility rate: 1.8 children born/woman (1993 est.)
  28. </p>
  29. <list>
  30. <l>Nationality:</l>
  31. <l>  noun: Frenchman(men), Frenchwoman(women)</l>
  32. <l>  adjective: French</l>
  33. </list>
  34. <p>Ethnic divisions: Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic,
  35. North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities
  36. </p>
  37. <p>Religions: Roman Catholic 90%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%,
  38. Muslim (North African workers) 1%, unaffiliated 6%
  39. </p>
  40. <p>Languages: French 100%, rapidly declining regional dialects
  41. and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan,
  42. Basque, Flemish)
  43. </p>
  44. <list>
  45. <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980)</l>
  46. <l>  total population: 99%</l>
  47. <l>  male: NA%</l>
  48. <l>  female: NA%</l>
  49. </list>
  50. <p>Labor force: 24.17 million
  51. </p>
  52. <p>  by occupation: services 61.5%, industry 31.3%, agriculture
  53. 7.2% (1987)
  54. </p></body></article></text>
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