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  1. <text>
  2. <title>
  3. Guyana: People
  4. </title>
  5. <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Guyana
  6. People</hdr><body>
  7. <p>Population: 734,640 (July 1993 est.)
  8. </p>
  9. <p>Population growth rate: -0.68% (1993 est.)
  10. </p>
  11. <p>Birth rate: 20.47 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  12. </p>
  13. <p>Death rate: 7.39 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  14. </p>
  15. <p>Net migration rate: -19.89 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  16. </p>
  17. <p>Infant mortality rate: 49.3 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.)
  18. </p>
  19. <list>
  20. <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
  21. <l>  total population: 64.7 years</l>
  22. <l>  male: 61.46 years</l>
  23. <l>  female: 68.1 years (1993 est.)</l>
  24. </list>
  25. <p>Total fertility rate: 2.35 children born/woman (1993 est.)
  26. </p>
  27. <list>
  28. <l>Nationality:</l>
  29. <l>  noun: Guyanese (singular and plural)</l>
  30. <l>  adjective: Guyanese</l>
  31. </list>
  32. <p>Ethnic divisions: East Indian 51%, black and mixed 43%, Amerindian
  33. 4%, European and Chinese 2%
  34. </p>
  35. <p>Religions: Christian 57%, Hindu 33%, Muslim 9%, other 1%
  36. </p>
  37. <p>Languages: English, Amerindian dialects
  38. </p>
  39. <list>
  40. <l>Literacy: age 15 and over having ever attended school
  41. (1990)</l>
  42. <l>  total population: 95%</l>
  43. <l>  male: 98%</l>
  44. <l>  female: 96%</l>
  45. </list>
  46. <p>Labor force: 268,000
  47. </p>
  48. <p>  by occupation: industry and commerce 44.5%, agriculture 33.8%,
  49. services 21.7%
  50. </p>
  51. <p>note: public-sector employment amounts to 60-80% of the total labor
  52. force (1985)
  53. </p></body></article></text>
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