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<text id=93CT0642>
<title>
Iceland--People
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Iceland
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 261,270 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>note: population data estimates based on average growth rate may
differ slightly from official population data because of volatile
migration rates
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 0.88% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 16.99 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 6.74 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: -1.47 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 4 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 78.69 years</l>
<l> male: 76.45 years</l>
<l> female: 81.04 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 2.16 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Icelander(s)</l>
<l> adjective: Icelandic</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norwegians
and Celts
</p>
<p>Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 96%, other Protestant and Roman
Catholic 3%, none 1% (1988)
</p>
<p>Languages: Icelandic
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1976)</l>
<l> total population: 100%</l>
<l> male: NA%</l>
<l> female: NA%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 127,900
</p>
<p> by occupation: commerce, transportation, and services 60.0%,
manufacturing 12.5%, fishing and fish processing 11.8%, construction
10.8%, agriculture 4.0% (1990)
</p></body></article></text>