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Palau People 1996

Population:

16,661 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:

0-14 years:

15-64 years:

65 years and over:

Population growth rate:

1.76% (1995 est.)

Birth rate:

22.11 births/1,000 population (1995 est.)

Death rate:

6.61 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.)

Net migration rate:

2.12 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.)

Infant mortality rate:

25.07 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:

total population:

71.01 years

male:

69.14 years

female:

73.02 years (1995 est.)

Total fertility rate:

2.85 children born/woman (1995 est.)

Nationality:

noun:

Palauan(s)

adjective:

Palauan

Ethnic divisions:

Palauans are a composite of Polynesian, Malayan, and Melanesian races

Religions:

Christian (Catholics, Seventh-Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Assembly of God, the Liebenzell Mission, and Latter-Day Saints), Modekngei religion (one-third of the population observes this religion which is indigenous to Palau)

Languages:

English (official in all of Palau's 16 states), Sonsorolese (official in the state of Sonsoral), Angaur and Japanese (in the state of Anguar), Tobi (in the state of Tobi), Palauan (in the other 13 states)

Literacy:

age 15 and over can read and write (1980)

total population:

92%

male:

93%

female:

90%

Labor force:

by occupation:

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