Life expectancy at birth: total population: 67.81 years male: 65.84 years female: 69.81 years (1995 est.)
Total fertility rate: 3.98 children born/woman (1995 est.)
Nationality: noun: Micronesian(s) adjective: Micronesian; Kosrae(s), Pohnpeian(s), Trukese, Yapese
Ethnic divisions: nine ethnic Micronesian and Polynesian groups
Religions: Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 47%, other and none 3%
Languages: English (official and common language), Trukese, Pohnpeian,
Yapese, Kosrean
Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980)
total population: 89%
male: 91%
female: 88%
Labor force: NA
by occupation: two-thirds are government employees
note: 45,000 people are between the ages of 15 and 65
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Names:
conventional long form: Federated States of Micronesia
conventional short form: none
former: Kosrae, Ponape, Truk, and Yap Districts (Trust Territory of
the Pacific Islands)