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    Lesotho People - 1990
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    SOURCE: 1990 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

      Population: 1,754,664 (July 1990), growth rate 2.6% (1990)

      Birth rate: 37 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: 80 deaths/1,000 live births (1990)

      Life expectancy at birth: 59 years male, 62 years female (1990)

      Total fertility rate: 4.9 children born/woman (1990)

      Nationality: noun--Mosotho (sing.), Basotho (pl.); adjective--Basotho

      Ethnic divisions: 99.7% Sotho; 1,600 Europeans, 800 Asians

      Religion: 80% Christian, rest indigenous beliefs

      Language: Sesotho (southern Sotho) and English (official); also Zulu and Xhosa

      Literacy: 59% (1989)

      Labor force: 689,000 economically active; 86.2% of resident population engaged in subsistence agriculture; roughly 60% of active male labor force works in South Africa

      Organized labor: there are two trade union federations; the government favors formation of a single, umbrella trade union confederation

      NOTE: The information regarding Lesotho on this page is re-published from the 1990 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Lesotho People 1990 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Lesotho People 1990 should be addressed to the CIA.

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