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  1. <text>
  2. <title>
  3. Poland: People
  4. </title>
  5. <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Poland
  6. People</hdr><body>
  7. <p>Population: 38,519,486 (July 1993 est.)
  8. </p>
  9. <p>Population growth rate: 0.35% (1993 est.)
  10. </p>
  11. <p>Birth rate: 13.59 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  12. </p>
  13. <p>Death rate: 9.59 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  14. </p>
  15. <p>Net migration rate: -0.52 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
  16. est.)
  17. </p>
  18. <p>Infant mortality rate: 13.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
  19. est.)
  20. </p>
  21. <list>
  22. <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
  23. <l>  total population: 72.2 years</l>
  24. <l>  male: 68.14 years</l>
  25. <l>  female: 76.51 years (1993 est.)</l>
  26. </list>
  27. <p>Total fertility rate: 1.97 children born/woman (1993 est.)
  28. </p>
  29. <list>
  30. <l>Nationality:</l>
  31. <l>  noun: Pole(s)</l>
  32. <l>  adjective: Polish</l>
  33. </list>
  34. <p>Ethnic divisions: Polish 97.6%, German 1.3%, Ukrainian 0.6%,
  35. Belarusian 0.5% (1990 est.)
  36. </p>
  37. <p>Religions: Roman Catholic 95% (about 75% practicing), Eastern
  38. Orthodox, Protestant, and other 5%
  39. </p>
  40. <p>Languages: Polish
  41. </p>
  42. <list>
  43. <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1978)</l>
  44. <l>  total population: 98%</l>
  45. <l>  male: 99%</l>
  46. <l>  female: 98%</l>
  47. </list>
  48. <p>Labor force: 15.609 million
  49. </p>
  50. <p>  by occupation: industry and construction 34.4%, agriculture
  51. 27.3%, trade, transport, and communications 16.1%, government
  52. and other 22.2% (1991)
  53. </p></body></article></text>
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