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  1. <text id=93CT1374>
  2. <title>
  3. Thailand--People
  4. </title>
  5. <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Thailand
  6. People</hdr><body>
  7. <p>Population: 58,722,437 (July 1993 est.)
  8. </p>
  9. <p>Population growth rate: 1.36% (1993 est.)
  10. </p>
  11. <p>Birth rate: 19.97 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  12. </p>
  13. <p>Death rate: 6.33 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  14. </p>
  15. <p>Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.)
  16. </p>
  17. <p>Infant mortality rate: 38.5 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
  18. est.)
  19. </p>
  20. <list>
  21. <l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
  22. <l>  total population: 68.28 years</l>
  23. <l>  male: 65.05 years</l>
  24. <l>  female: 71.66 years (1993 est.)</l>
  25. </list>
  26. <p>Total fertility rate: 2.16 children born/woman (1993 est.)
  27. </p>
  28. <list>
  29. <l>Nationality:</l>
  30. <l>  noun: Thai (singular and plural)</l>
  31. <l>  adjective: Thai</l>
  32. </list>
  33. <p>Ethnic divisions: Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11%
  34. </p>
  35. <p>Religions: Buddhism 95%, Muslim 3.8%, Christianity 0.5%,
  36. Hinduism 0.1%, other 0.6% (1991)
  37. </p>
  38. <p>Languages: Thai, English the secondary language of the elite,
  39. ethnic and regional dialects
  40. </p>
  41. <list>
  42. <l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
  43. <l>  total population: 93%</l>
  44. <l>  male: 96%</l>
  45. <l>  female: 90%</l>
  46. </list>
  47. <p>Labor force: 30.87 million
  48. </p>
  49. <p>  by occupation: agriculture 62%, industry 13%, commerce 11%,
  50. services (including government) 14% (1989 est.)
  51. </p></body></article></text>
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