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  1. <text>
  2. <title>
  3. Venezuela: People
  4. </title>
  5. <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Venezuela
  6. People</hdr><body>
  7. <p>Population: 20,117,687 (July 1993 est.)
  8. </p>
  9. <p>Population growth rate: 2.22% (1993 est.)
  10. </p>
  11. <p>Birth rate: 26.37 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  12. </p>
  13. <p>Death rate: 4.69 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  14. </p>
  15. <p>Net migration rate: 0.48 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
  16. est.)
  17. </p>
  18. <p>Infant mortality rate: 28.9 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
  19. est.)
  20. </p>
  21. <list>
  22. <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
  23. <l>  total population: 72.69 years</l>
  24. <l>  male: 69.76 years</l>
  25. <l>  female: 75.77 years (1993 est.)</l>
  26. </list>
  27. <p>Total fertility rate: 3.14 children born/woman (1993 est.)
  28. </p>
  29. <list>
  30. <l>Nationality:</l>
  31. <l>  noun: Venezuelan(s)</l>
  32. <l>  adjective: Venezuelan</l>
  33. </list>
  34. <p>Ethnic divisions: mestizo 67%, white 21%, black 10%, Indian
  35. 2%
  36. </p>
  37. <p>Religions: nominally Roman Catholic 96%, Protestant 2%
  38. </p>
  39. <p>Languages: Spanish (official), Indian dialects spoken by about
  40. 200,000 Amerindians in the remote interior
  41. </p>
  42. <list>
  43. <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
  44. <l>  total population: 88%</l>
  45. <l>  male: 87%</l>
  46. <l>  female: 90%</l>
  47. </list>
  48. <p>Labor force: 5.8 million
  49. </p>
  50. <p>  by occupation: services 56%, industry 28%, agriculture 16%
  51. (1985)
  52. </p></body></article></text>
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