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  1. <text>
  2. <title>
  3. Uruguay: People
  4. </title>
  5. <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Uruguay
  6. People</hdr><body>
  7. <p>Population: 3,175,050 (July 1993 est.)
  8. </p>
  9. <p>Population growth rate: 0.75% (1993 est.)
  10. </p>
  11. <p>Birth rate: 17.82 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  12. </p>
  13. <p>Death rate: 9.52 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  14. </p>
  15. <p>Net migration rate: -0.79 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
  16. est.)
  17. </p>
  18. <p>Infant mortality rate: 18 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
  19. est.)
  20. </p>
  21. <list>
  22. <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
  23. <l>  total population: 73.74 years</l>
  24. <l>  male: 70.52 years</l>
  25. <l>  female: 77.11 years (1993 est.)</l>
  26. </list>
  27. <p>Total fertility rate: 2.46 children born/woman (1993 est.)
  28. </p>
  29. <list>
  30. <l>Nationality:</l>
  31. <l>  noun: Uruguayan(s)</l>
  32. <l>  adjective: Uruguayan</l>
  33. </list>
  34. <p>Ethnic divisions: white 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%
  35. </p>
  36. <p>Religions: Roman Catholic 66% (less than half adult population
  37. attends church regularly), Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%,
  38. nonprofessing or other 30%
  39. </p>
  40. <p>Languages: Spanish
  41. </p>
  42. <list>
  43. <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
  44. <l>  total population: 96%</l>
  45. <l>  male: 97%</l>
  46. <l>  female: 96%</l>
  47. </list>
  48. <p>Labor force: 1.355 million (1991 est.)
  49. </p>
  50. <p>  by occupation: government 25%, manufacturing 19%,
  51. agriculture 11%, commerce 12%, utilities, construction,
  52. transport, and communications 12%, other services 21% (1988
  53. est.)
  54. </p></body></article></text>
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