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People
Population: 7,713,851 (July 1990), growth rate 3.0% (1990).
Birth rate: 44 births/1,000 population (1990).
Death rate: 14 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1990).
Infant mortality rate: 87 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
Life expectancy at birth: 53 years male, 56 years female (1990).
Total fertility rate: 6.3 children born/woman (1990).
Nationality: noun--Senegalese (sing. and pl.); adjective--Senegalese.
Ethnic divisions: 36% Wolof, 17% Fulani, 17% Serer, 9% Toucouleur,
9% Diola, 9% Mandingo, 1% European and Lebanese, 2% other.
Religion: 92% Muslim, 6% indigenous beliefs, 2% Christian
(mostly Roman Catholic).
Language: French (official); Wolof, Pulaar, Diola, Mandingo.
Literacy: 28.1%.
Labor force: 2,509,000; 77% subsistence agricultural workers;
175,000 wage earners--40% private sector, 60% government
and parapublic; 52% of population of working age (1985).
Organized labor: majority of wage-labor force represented
by unions; however, dues-paying membership very limited;
major confederation is National Confederation of Senegalese
Labor (CNTS), an affiliate of governing party.