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  1.  People
  2.  
  3. Population: 11,092,470 (July 1990), growth rate 2.7% (1990).
  4.  
  5. Birth rate: 42 births/1,000 population (1990).
  6.  
  7. Death rate: 15 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
  8.  
  9. Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1990).
  10.  
  11. Infant mortality rate: 120 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
  12.  
  13. Life expectancy at birth: 49 years male, 53 years female (1990).
  14.  
  15. Total fertility rate: 5.7 children born/woman (1990).
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  17. Nationality: noun--Cameroonian(s); adjective--Cameroonian.
  18.  
  19. Ethnic divisions: over 200 tribes of widely differing background; 
  20. 31% Cameroon Highlanders, 19% Equatorial Bantu, 11% Kirdi, 
  21. 10% Fulani, 8% Northwestern Bantu, 7% Eastern Nigritic, 13% other 
  22. African, less than 1% non-African.
  23.  
  24. Religion: 51% indigenous beliefs, 33% Christian, 16% Muslim.
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  26. Language: English and French (official), 24 major African 
  27. language groups.
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  29. Literacy: 56.2%.
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  31. Labor force: NA; 74.4% agriculture, 11.4% industry and transport, 
  32. 14.2% other services (1983); 50% of population of working 
  33. age (15-64 years) (1985).
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  35. Organized labor: under 45% of wage labor force.
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