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People
Population: 1,224,527 (July 1990), growth rate 2.8% (1990).
Birth rate: 37 births/1,000 population (1990).
Death rate: 9 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1990).
Infant mortality rate: 43 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
Life expectancy at birth: 58 years male, 64 years female (1990).
Total fertility rate: 4.8 children born/woman (1990).
Nationality: noun and adjective--Motswana (singular), Batswana
(plural).
Ethnic divisions: 95% Batswana; about 4% Kalanga, Basarwa,
and Kgalagadi; about 1% white.
Religion: 50% indigenous beliefs, 50% Christian.
Language: English (official), Setswana.
Literacy: 60%.
Labor force: 400,000; 163,000 formal sector employees, most
others are engaged in cattle raising and subsistence agriculture
(1988 est.); 19,000 are employed in various mines in South
Africa (1988).
Organized labor: 19 trade unions.