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People
Population: 290,938,469 (July 1990), growth rate 0.7% (1990).
Birth rate: 18 births/1,000 population (1990).
Death rate: 10 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1990).
Infant mortality rate: 24 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
Life expectancy at birth: 65 years male, 74 years female (1990).
Total fertility rate: 2.4 children born/woman (1990).
Nationality: noun--Soviet(s); adjective--Soviet.
Ethnic divisions: Russian 50.78%, Ukrainian 15.45%, Uzbek 5.84%,
Byelorussian 3.51%, Kazakh 2.85%, Azerbaijan 2.38%, Armenian 1.62%,
Tajik 1.48%, Georgian 1.39%, Moldavian 1.17%, Lithuanian 1.07%,
Turkmen 0.95%, Kirghiz 0.89%, Latvian 0.51%, Estonian 0.36%,
others 9.75%.
Religion: 20% Russian Orthodox; 10% Muslim; 7% Protestant,
Georgian Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic;
less than 1% Jewish; 60% atheist (est.).
Language: Russian (official); more than 200 languages and
dialects (at least 18 with more than 1 million speakers);
75% Slavic group, 8% other Indo-European, 12% Altaic, 3% Uralian,
2% Caucasian.
Literacy: 99%.
Labor force: 152,300,000 civilians; 80% industry and other
nonagricultural fields, 20% agriculture; shortage of skilled
labor (1989).
Organized labor: 98% of workers are union members; all trade
unions are organized within the All-Union Central Council
of Trade Unions (AUCCTU) and conduct their work under guidance
of the Communist party.