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France Population: 58 804 944 (July 1998 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 19% (male 5 674 417; female 5 411 685) 15-64 years: 65% (male 19 243 919; female 19 182 933) 65 years and over: 16% (male 3 759 565; female 5 532 425) (July 1998 est.) Population growth rate: 0.31% (1998 est.) Birth rate: 11.68 births/1 000 population (1998 est.) Death rate: 9.12 deaths/1 000 population (1998 est.) Net migration rate: 0.58 migrant(s)/1 000 population (1998 est.) Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.67 male(s)/female (1998 est.) Infant mortality rate: 5.69 deaths/1 000 live births (1998 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 78.51 years male: 74.6 years female: 82.62 years (1998 est.) Total fertility rate: 1.63 children born/woman (1998 est.) Nationality: noun: Frenchman(men) Frenchwoman(women) adjective: French Ethnic groups: Celtic and Latin with Teutonic Slavic Arabian African Indochinese Basque minorities Religions: Roman Catholic 85% Protestant 2% Jewish 1% Muslim (North African workers) 6% unaffiliated 6% Languages: French 100% rapidly declining regional dialects and languages (Provencal Breton Alsatian Corsican Catalan Basque Flemish) Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (1980 est.)
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