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<title>
Wales United Kingdom: People
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: United Kingdom
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 57,970,200 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 0.29% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 13.58 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 10.87 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: 0.17 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 7.4 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 76.5 years</l>
<l> male: 73.71 years</l>
<l> female: 79.43 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 1.83 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Briton(s), British (collective pl.)</l>
<l> adjective: British</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: English 81.5%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%,
Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and
other 2.8%
</p>
<p>Religions: Anglican 27 million, Roman Catholic 9 million,
Muslim 1 million, Presbyterian 800,000, Methodist 760,000, Sikh
400,000, Hindu 350,000, Jewish 300,000 (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>note: the UK does not include a question on religion in its
census
</p>
<p>Languages: English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of
Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland)
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1978)</l>
<l> total population: 99%</l>
<l> male: NA%</l>
<l> female: NA%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 28.048 million
</p>
<p> by occupation: services 62.8%, manufacturing and
construction 25.0%, government 9.1%, energy 1.9%, agriculture
1.2% (June 1992)
</p></body></article></text>