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<text id=93CT1314>
<title>
Swaziland--People
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Swaziland
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 906,932 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 3.18% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 43.22 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 11.41 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 95.7 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 55.94 years</l>
<l> male: 51.97 years</l>
<l> female: 60.03 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 6.16 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Swazi(s)</l>
<l> adjective: Swazi</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: African 97%, European 3%
</p>
<p>Religions: Christian 60%, indigenous beliefs 40%
</p>
<p>Languages: English (official; government business conducted in
English), siSwati (official)
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1976)</l>
<l> total population: 55%</l>
<l> male: 57%</l>
<l> female: 54%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 195,000 (over 60,000 engaged in subsistence
agriculture; about 92,000 wage earners - many only
intermittently)
</p>
<p> by occupation: agriculture and forestry 36%, community and
social service 20%, manufacturing 14%, construction 9%, other
21%
</p>
<p>note: 15,980 employed in South African gold and coal mines
(1991)
</p></body></article></text>