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Western Samoa People 1996
40% (female 41,503; male 42,844)
56% (female 55,683; male 61,065)
4% (female 4,323; male 3,942) (July 1995 est.)
31.74 births/1,000 population (1995 est.)
5.88 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.)
-2.14 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.)
35.5 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.)
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Life expectancy at birth:
4.04 children born/woman (1995 est.)
Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood),
Europeans 0.4%
Christian 99.7% (about one-half of population associated with the London
Missionary Society; includes Congregational, Roman Catholic, Methodist,
Latter Day Saints, Seventh-Day Adventist)
Samoan (Polynesian), English
age 15 and over can read and write (1971)
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