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<text id=93CT1332>
<title>
Syria--People
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Syria
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 14,338,527 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>note: in addition, there are at least 14,500 Druze and 14,000
Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights (1993
est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 3.76% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 44.08 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 6.44 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 43.9 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 66.12 years</l>
<l> male: 65.07 years</l>
<l> female: 67.22 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 6.75 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Syrian(s)</l>
<l> adjective: Syrian</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other
9.7%
</p>
<p>Religions: Sunni Muslim 74%, Alawite, Druze, and other Muslim
sects 16%, Christian (various sects) 10%, Jewish (tiny
communities in Damascus, Al Qamishli, and Aleppo)
</p>
<p>Languages: Arabic (official), Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic,
Circassian, French widely understood
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
<l> total population: 64%</l>
<l> male: 78%</l>
<l> female: 51%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 2.951 million (1989)
</p>
<p> by occupation: miscellaneous and government services 36%,
agriculture 32%, industry and construction 32%; note - shortage
of skilled labor (1984)
</p></body></article></text>