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People
Population: 4,165,953 (July 1990), growth rate 2.6% (1990).
Birth rate: 47 births/1,000 population (1990).
Death rate: 21 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1990).
Infant mortality rate: 154 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
Life expectancy at birth: 42 years male, 47 years female (1990).
Total fertility rate: 6.2 children born/woman (1990).
Nationality: noun--Sierra Leonean(s); adjective--Sierra Leonean.
Ethnic divisions: 99% native African (30% Temne, 30% Mende);
1% Creole, European, Lebanese, and Asian; 13 tribes.
Religion: 30% Muslim, 30% indigenous beliefs, 10% Christian,
30% other or none.
Language: English (official); regular use limited to literate
minority; principal vernaculars are Mende in south and Temne
in north; Krio is the language of the resettled ex-slave
population of the Freetown area and is lingua franca.
Literacy: 31% (1986).
Labor force: 1,369,000 (est.); 65% agriculture, 19% industry,
16% services (1981); only about 65,000 earn wages (1985);
55% of population of working age.
Organized labor: 35% of wage earners.