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Mozambique People 1996
18,115,250 (July 1995 est.)
45% (female 4,069,117; male 4,078,429)
53% (female 4,882,292; male 4,630,193)
2% (female 260,057; male 195,162) (July 1995 est.)
44.6 births/1,000 population (1995 est.)
15.94 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.)
NA migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.)
by the end of 1994, an estimated 1.6 million Mozambican refugees, who fled
to Malawi, Zimbabwa, and South Africa in earlier years from the civil war,
had returned; an estimated 100,000 refugees remain to be repatriated from
those countries
126 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.)
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Life expectancy at birth:
6.19 children born/woman (1995 est.)
indigenous tribal groups, Europeans about 10,000, Euro-Africans 35,000,
Indians 15,000
indigenous beliefs 60%, Christian 30%, Muslim 10%
Portuguese (official), indigenous dialects
age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
90% engaged in agriculture
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