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People
Population: 368,935 (July 1990), growth rate 2.6% (1990).
Birth rate: 43 births/1,000 population (1990).
Death rate: 16 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1990).
Infant mortality rate: 118 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
Life expectancy at birth: 48 years male, 52 years female (1990).
Total fertility rate: 5.5 children born/woman (1990).
Nationality: noun--Equatorial Guinean(s) or Equatoguinean(s);
adjective--Equatorial Guinean or Equatoguinean.
Ethnic divisions: indigenous population of Bioko, primarily
Bubi, some Fernandinos; Rio Muni, primarily Fang; less than
1,000 Europeans, mostly Spanish.
Religion: natives all nominally Christian and predominantly
Roman Catholic; some pagan practices retained.
Language: Spanish (official), pidgin English, Fang, Bubi, Ibo.
Literacy: 40%.
Labor force: 172,000 (1986 est.); 66% agriculture, 23% services,
11% industry (1980); labor shortages on plantations; 58%
of population of working age (1985).
Organized labor: no formal trade unions.