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  1.  People
  2.  
  3. Population: 9,157,528 (July 1990), growth rate 1.8% (1990).
  4.  
  5. Birth rate: 52 births/1,000 population (1990).
  6.  
  7. Death rate: 18 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
  8.  
  9. Net migration rate: -16 migrants/1,000 population (1990).
  10.  
  11. Infant mortality rate: 130 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
  12.  
  13. Life expectancy at birth: 48 years male, 50 years female (1990).
  14.  
  15. Total fertility rate: 7.7 children born/woman (1990).
  16.  
  17. Nationality: noun--Malawian(s); adjective--Malawian.
  18.  
  19. Ethnic divisions: Chewa, Nyanja, Tumbuko, Yao, Lomwe, Sena, 
  20. Tonga, Ngoni, Ngonde, Asian, European.
  21.  
  22. Religion: 55% Protestant, 20% Roman Catholic, 20% Muslim; 
  23. traditional indigenous beliefs are also practiced.
  24.  
  25. Language: English and Chichewa (official); other languages 
  26. important regionally.
  27.  
  28. Literacy: 41.2%.
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  30. Labor force: 428,000 wage earners; 43% agriculture, 16% 
  31. manufacturing, 15% personal services, 9% commerce, 7% construction, 
  32. 4% miscellaneous services, 6% other permanently employed (1986).
  33.  
  34. Organized labor: small minority of wage earners are unionized.
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  36. Note: there are 800,000 Mozambican refugees in Malawi (1989 est.).
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