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People
Population: 2,639,809 (July 1990), growth rate 3.4% (1990).
Birth rate: 45 births/1,000 population (1990).
Death rate: 14 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
Net migration rate: 2 migrants/1,000 population (1990).
Infant mortality rate: 126 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
Life expectancy at birth: 54 years male, 58 years female (1990).
Total fertility rate: 6.6 children born/woman (1990).
Nationality: noun--Liberian(s); adjective--Liberian.
Ethnic divisions: 95% indigenous African tribes, including
Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, Krahn, Gola, Gbandi,
Loma, Kissi, Vai, and Bella; 5% descendants of repatriated
slaves known as Americo-Liberians.
Religion: 70% traditional, 20% Muslim, 10% Christian.
Language: English (official); more than 20 local languages
of the Niger-Congo language group; English used by about 20%.
Literacy: 35%.
Labor force: 510,000, including 220,000 in the monetary
economy; 70.5% agriculture, 10.8% services, 4.5% industry
and commerce, 14.2% other; non-African foreigners hold about
95% of the top-level management and engineering jobs; 52% of
population of working age.
Organized labor: 2% of labor force.