Infant mortality rate: 25.07 deaths/1,000 live births (1997 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 71.01 years male : 69.14 years female: 73.02 years (1997 est.)
Total fertility rate: 2.71 children born/woman (1997 est.)
Nationality: noun: Palauan(s) adjective: Palauan
Ethnic groups: Palauans are a composite of Polynesian, Malayan, and
Melanesian races
Religions: Christian (Catholics, Seventh-Day Adventists, Jehovah's
Witnesses, the Assembly of God, the Liebenzell Mission, and Latter-Day
Saints), Modekngei religion (one-third of the population observes this
religion which is indigenous to Palau)
Languages: English (official in all of Palau's 16 states), Sonsorolese (official in the state of Sonsoral), Angaur and Japanese (in the state of Anguar), Tobi (in the state of Tobi), Palauan (in the other 13 states)
Literacy: definition : age 15 and over can read and write total population: 92% male: 93% female: 90% (1980 est.)
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Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Palau conventional short form: Palau local long form: Beluu er a Belau local short form : Belau former: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands