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<text id=93CT0420>
<title>
Equatorial Guinea--People
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Equatorial Guinea
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 399,055 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 2.6% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 41.1 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 15.11 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 104.9 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 51.63 years</l>
<l> male: 49.56 years</l>
<l> female: 53.76 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 5.33 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Equatorial Guinean(s) or Equatoguinean(s)</l>
<l> adjective: Equatorial Guinean or Equatoguinean</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: Bioko (primarily Bubi, some Fernandinos),
Rio Muni (primarily Fang), Europeans less than 1,000, mostly
Spanish
</p>
<p>Religions: nominally Christian and predominantly Roman
Catholic, pagan practices
</p>
<p>Languages: Spanish (official), pidgin English, Fang, Bubi, Ibo
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
<l> total population: 50%</l>
<l> male: 64%</l>
<l> female: 37%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 172,000 (1986 est.)
</p>
<p> by occupation: agriculture 66%, services 23%, industry 11%
(1980)
</p>
<p>note: labor shortages on plantations; 58% of population of
working age (1985)
</p></body></article></text>