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<text>
<title>
Guyana: People
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Guyana
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 734,640 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: -0.68% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 20.47 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 7.39 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: -19.89 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 49.3 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 64.7 years</l>
<l> male: 61.46 years</l>
<l> female: 68.1 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 2.35 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Guyanese (singular and plural)</l>
<l> adjective: Guyanese</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: East Indian 51%, black and mixed 43%, Amerindian
4%, European and Chinese 2%
</p>
<p>Religions: Christian 57%, Hindu 33%, Muslim 9%, other 1%
</p>
<p>Languages: English, Amerindian dialects
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over having ever attended school
(1990)</l>
<l> total population: 95%</l>
<l> male: 98%</l>
<l> female: 96%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 268,000
</p>
<p> by occupation: industry and commerce 44.5%, agriculture 33.8%,
services 21.7%
</p>
<p>note: public-sector employment amounts to 60-80% of the total labor
force (1985)
</p></body></article></text>