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<text id=94CT0128><title>Barbados—People</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Barbados<nl>People</hdr><body>
<list>
<item><hi format=bold>Population:</hi> 255,827 (July 1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Population growth rate:</hi> 0.21% (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Birth rate:</hi> 15.63 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Death rate:</hi> 8.4 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Net migration rate:</hi> -5.16 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Infant mortality rate:</hi> 20.3 deaths/1,000 live births (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Life expectancy at birth:</hi>
<list style=hang>
<item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 73.83 years
<item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 71.11 years
<item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 76.76 years (1994 est.)
</list>
<item><hi format=bold>Total fertility rate:</hi> 1.78 children born/woman (1994 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Nationality:</hi>
<list style=hang>
<item>• <hi format=ital>noun:</hi> Barbadian(s)
<item>• <hi format=ital>adjective:</hi> Barbadian
</list>
<item><hi format=bold>Ethnic divisions:</hi> African 80%, European 4%, other 16%
<item><hi format=bold>Religions:</hi> Protestant 67% (Anglican 40%, Pentecostal 8%, Methodist 7%, other 12%), Roman Catholic 4%, none 17%, unknown 3%, other 9% (1980)
<item><hi format=bold>Languages:</hi> English
<item><hi format=bold>Literacy:</hi> age 15 and over having ever attended school (1970)
<list style=hang>
<item>• <hi format=ital>total population:</hi> 99%
<item>• <hi format=ital>male:</hi> 99%
<item>• <hi format=ital>female:</hi> 99%
</list>
<item><hi format=bold>Labor force:</hi> 120,900 (1991)
<list style=hang>
<item>• <hi format=ital>by occupation:</hi> services and government 37%, commerce 22%, manufacturing and construction 22%, transportation, storage, communications, and financial institutions 9%, agriculture 8%, utilities 2% (1985 est.)
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