Population: 756,195 (July 1989), growth rate 2.8% (1989)

Birth rate: 46 births/1,000 population (1989)

Death rate: 15 deaths/1,000 population (1989)

Net migration rate: - 3 migrants/1,000 population (1989)

Infant mortality rate: 127 deaths/1,000 live births (1989)

Life expectancy at birth: 47 years male, 54 years female (1989)

Total fertility rate: 6.1 children born/woman (1989)

Nationality: noun--Swazi(s); adjective--Swazi

Ethnic divisions: 97% African, 3% European

Religion: 60% Christian, 40% indigenous beliefs

Language: English and siSwati (official); government business conducted in English

Literacy: 67.9% (1985)

Labor force: 195,000; over 60,000 engaged in subsistence agriculture; about 92,000 wage earners (many only intermittently), with 36% agriculture and forestry, 20% community and social services, 14% manufacturing, 9% construction, 21% other; 24,000-29,000 employed in South Africa (1987)

Organized labor: about 10% of wage earners

NOTE: The information regarding Swaziland on this page is re-published from the 1989 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Swaziland People 1989 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Swaziland People 1989 should be addressed to the CIA.