Population:
3,334,587 (July 2008 est.)
Infant
Mortality Rate:
total: 143.89 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 159.5 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 127.81 deaths/1,000 live births (2008 est.)
Ethnic Groups:
indigenous African 95% (including Kpelle, Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano,
Krahn, Gola, Gbandi, Loma, Kissi, Vai, Dei, Bella, Mandingo, and Mende),
Americo-Liberians 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the US who had been
slaves), Congo People 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the Caribbean who had
been slaves)
Language:
English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic
group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence
Literacy Rate:
definition: age 15 and over can
read and write
total population: 57.5%
male: 73.3%
female: 41.6% (2003 est.)
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