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<text id=93CT1266>
<title>
Somalia--People
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Somalia
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 6,514,629 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 1.35% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 41.95 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 28.41 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 162.7 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 32.91 years</l>
<l> male: 32.86 years</l>
<l> female: 32.95 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 6.4 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Somali(s)</l>
<l> adjective: Somali</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: Somali 85%, Bantu, Arabs 30,000, Europeans
3,000, Asians 800
</p>
<p>Religions: Sunni Muslim
</p>
<p>Languages: Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
<l> total population: 24%</l>
<l> male: 36%</l>
<l> female: 14%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 2.2 million (very few are skilled laborers)
</p>
<p> by occupation: pastoral nomad 70%, agriculture, government,
trading, fishing, handicrafts, and other 30%
</p>
<p>note: 53% of population of working age (1985)
</p></body></article></text>