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<text id=93CT1296>
<title>
Sudan--People
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Sudan
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 28,730,381 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 2.38% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 42.65 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 12.45 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: -6.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 81.3 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 53.85 years</l>
<l> male: 53 years</l>
<l> female: 54.73 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 6.19 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Sudanese (singular and plural)</l>
<l> adjective: Sudanese</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%,
other 1%
</p>
<p>Religions: Sunni Muslim 70% (in north), indigenous beliefs
25%, Christian 5% (mostly in south and Khartoum)
</p>
<p>Languages: Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse
dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English
</p>
<p>note: program of Arabization in process
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
<l> total population: 27%</l>
<l> male: 43%</l>
<l> female: 12%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 6.5 million
</p>
<p> by occupation: agriculture 80%, industry and commerce 10%,
government 6%
</p>
<p>note: labor shortages for almost all categories of skilled
employment (1983 est.); 52% of population of working age (1985)
</p></body></article></text>