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*Languages: French (official); five principal language groups.
*Languages: French (official); five principal language groups.
*Education: Years compulsory--school is not compulsory at this time. Attendance--57%. Literacy--51%.
*Education: Years compulsory--school is not compulsory at this time. Attendance--57%. Literacy--51%.
*Health: Infant mortality rate--111/1,000. Life expectancy--46 years.
*Health: Infant mortality rate--111/1,000. Life expectancy--46 years.
===Religion===
An estimated 35 to 40% of the population of 18 million is Christian and an equal number is Muslim. An estimated 25% practices indigenous religious beliefs. Many persons who are nominally Christian or Muslim also practice some aspects of indigenous religious beliefs, particularly as economic and political conditions worsened after the failed 2002 coup.
Traditionally, the north is associated with Islam and the south with Christianity, although both regions included many indigenous religious practitioners. However, the political crisis displaced over 700,000 people internally, many to a different region. Political and religious affiliation tend to follow ethnic and socioeconomic lines.
Christian groups include Roman Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists, Methodists, Assemblies of God, Southern Baptists, Coptics, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons).
Other religious groups include Buddhists, Baha'is, the International Association for the Conscience of Krishna, and Bossonists, who follow a traditional practice of the Akan ethnic group.
==Government==
==Government==