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<text>
<title>
Philippines: People
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Philippines
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 68,464,368 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 1.97% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 27.9 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 7.03 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: -1.19 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 51.9 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 65.13 years</l>
<l> male: 62.59 years</l>
<l> female: 67.79 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 3.45 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Filipino(s)</l>
<l> adjective: Philippine</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: Christian Malay 91.5%, Muslim Malay 4%,
Chinese 1.5%, other 3%
</p>
<p>Religions: Roman Catholic 83%, Protestant 9%, Muslim 5%,
Buddhist and other 3%
</p>
<p>Languages: Pilipino (official; based on Tagalog), English
(official)
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
<l> total population: 90%</l>
<l> male: 90%</l>
<l> female: 90%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 24.12 million
</p>
<p> by occupation: agriculture 46%, industry and commerce 16%,
services 18.5%, government 10%, other 9.5% (1989)
</p></body></article></text>