CIA World Factbook Demographic Statistics
The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.
Population growth rate: 0.776% (2010 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.67 male(s)/female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2000 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 17.73 deaths/1,000 live births (2000 est.) - 12.2 deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 74 years
male: 70.53 years
female: 77.65 years (2010 est.)
Total fertility rate: 2.02 children born/woman (2000 est.) 1.80 children born/woman (2010 est.)
Nationality:
noun: Mauritian(s)
adjective: Mauritian
Ethnic groups: Indian 68%, Creole 27%, Chinese 3%, French 2%
Religions: Hinduism 52%, Christianity 28.3% (Roman Catholicism 26%, Protestant 2.3%), Islam 16.6%, other 3.1%
Languages: English (Official), French, Mauritian Creole, Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Bhojpuri, Hakka.
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 84.4%
male: 88.4%
female: 80.5% (2000 est.)
Read more about this topic: Demographics Of Mauritius
Famous quotes containing the words cia, world and/or statistics:
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
—Bible: New Testament John 8:32.
These words of Jesus are inscribed on the wall of the main lobby at the CIA headquarters, Langley, Virginia.
“Life’s an awfully lonesome affair.... You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.”
—Emily Carr (1871–1945)
“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)