| People | Mali |
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Nationality:
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noun: Malian(s)
adjective: Malian |
Ethnic groups:
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Mande 50% (Bambara, Malinke, Soninke), Peul 17%, Voltaic 12%, Songhai 6%, Tuareg and Moor 10%, other 5% |
Languages:
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French (official), Bambara 46.3%, Peul/foulfoulbe 9.4%, Dogon 7.2%, Maraka/soninke 6.4%, Malinke 5.6%, Sonrhai/djerma 5.6%, Minianka 4.3%, Tamacheq 3.5%, Senoufo 2.6%, unspecified 0.6%, other 8.5% |
Religions:
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Muslim 94.8%, Christian 2.4%, Animist 2%, none 0.5%, unspecified 0.3% (2009 Census) |
Demographic profile:
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Population:
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15,968,882 (July 2013 est.) |
Age structure:
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0-14 years: 47.7% (male 3,824,877/female 3,794,196)
15-24 years: 19% (male 1,439,032/female 1,587,072)
25-54 years: 26.6% (male 1,980,766/female 2,270,676)
55-64 years: 3.7% (male 297,365/female 295,495)
65 years and over: 3% (male 240,681/female 238,722) (2013 est.) |
Median age:
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total: 16 years
male: 15.4 years
female: 16.6 years (2013 est.) |
Population growth rate:
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3.01% (2013 est.) |
Birth rate:
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46.06 births/1,000 population (2013 est.) |
Death rate:
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13.55 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.) |
Net migration rate:
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-2.41 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.) |
Urbanization:
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urban population: 36% of total population (2010)
rate of urbanization: 4.4% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) |
Major cities - population:
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BAMAKO (capital) 1.628 million (2009) |
Sex ratio:
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at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 0.91 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 0.88 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 1.01 male(s)/female
total population: 0.95 male(s)/female (2013 est.) |
Population density:
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14 people per sq km land area |
Maternal mortality rate:
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540 deaths/100,000 live births (2010) |
Infant mortality rate:
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total: 106.49 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 113.23 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 99.56 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.) |
Life expectancy at birth:
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total population: 54.55 years
male: 52.75 years
female: 56.41 years (2013 est.) |
Total fertility rate:
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6.25 children born/woman (2013 est.) |
Health expenditures:
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5% of GDP (2010) |
Physicians density:
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0.049 physicians/1,000 population (2008) |
Hospital bed density:
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0.1 beds/1,000 population (2010) |
Sanitation facility access:
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improved:
urban: 35% of population
rural: 14% of population
total: 22% of population
unimproved:
urban: 65% of population
rural: 86% of population
total: 78% of population (2010 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
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1% (2009 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
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4,400 (2009 est.) |
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
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76,000 (2009 est.) |
Major infectious diseases:
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degree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne disease: malaria
water contact disease: schistosomiasis
respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis (2009) |
Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
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27.9% (2006) |
Education expenditures - percent of GDP:
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4.8% of GDP (2011) |
Literacy:
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definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 27.7%
male: 36.1%
female: 19.8% (2009 census) |
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
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total: 8 years
male: 9 years
female: 7 years (2009) |
Drinking water source:
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improved:
urban: 87% of population
rural: 51% of population
total: 64% of population
unimproved:
urban: 13% of population
rural: 49% of population
total: 36% of population (2010 est.) |
Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
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4.3% (2008) |
People - note:
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