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Extractions: note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2002 est.) Language French (official), Sangho (lingua franca and national language), tribal languages Religion indigenous beliefs 35%, Protestant 25%, Roman Catholic 25%, Muslim 15%
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