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<text id=93CT0669>
<title>
Iraq--People
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Iraq
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 19,161,956 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 3.73% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 44.57 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 7.71 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: 0.42 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 71.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 64.96 years</l>
<l> male: 64.2 years</l>
<l> female: 65.76 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 6.86 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Iraqi(s)</l>
<l> adjective: Iraqi</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: Arab 75-80%, Kurdish 15-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian
or other 5%
</p>
<p>Religions: Muslim 97% (Shi'a 60-65%, Sunni 32-37%), Christian or
other 3%
</p>
<p>Languages: Arabic, Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Assyrian,
Armenian
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
<l> total population: 60%</l>
<l> male: 70%</l>
<l> female: 49%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 4.4 million (1989)
</p>
<p> by occupation: services 48%, agriculture 30%, industry 22%
</p>
<p>note: severe labor shortage; expatriate labor force was about
1,600,000 (July 1990); since then, it has declined substantially
</p></body></article></text>