Pacific Islands, Trust Territory (Palau)--People

CIA FactbookThe World Factbook 1993: Pacific Islands, Trust Territory of the (Palau) People

Population: 16,071 (July 1993 est.)

Population growth rate: 1.84% (1993 est.)

Birth rate: 22.9 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)

Death rate: 6.61 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)

Net migration rate: 2.12 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 25.07 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.)

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 71.01 years male: 69.14 years female: 73.02 years (1993 est.)

Total fertility rate: 2.96 children born/woman (1993 est.)

Nationality: noun: Palauan(s) adjective: Palauan

Ethnic divisions: Palauans are a composite of Polynesian, Malayan, and Melanesian races

Religions: Christian (Catholics, Seventh-Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Assembly of God, the Liebenzell Mission, and Latter-Day Saints), Modekngei religion (one-third of the population observes this religion which is indigenous to Palau)

Languages: English (official in all of Palau's 16 states), Sonsorolese (official in the state of Sonsoral), Angaur and Japanese (in the state of Anguar), Tobi (in the state of Tobi), Palauan (in the other 13 states)

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980) total population: 92% male: 93% female: 91%

Labor force: NA

by occupation: NA