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<text id=93CT1159>
<title>
Pacific Islands, Trust Territory (Palau)--People
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Pacific Islands, Trust Territory of the (Palau)
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 16,071 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 1.84% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 22.9 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 6.61 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: 2.12 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 25.07 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 71.01 years</l>
<l> male: 69.14 years</l>
<l> female: 73.02 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 2.96 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Palauan(s)</l>
<l> adjective: Palauan</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: Palauans are a composite of Polynesian,
Malayan, and Melanesian races
</p>
<p>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)
</p>
<p>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)
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980)</l>
<l> total population: 92%</l>
<l> male: 93%</l>
<l> female: 91%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: NA
</p>
<p> by occupation: NA
</p></body></article></text>