6 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: 8 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 30 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 70 years male, 71 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 3.7 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Wallisian(s), Futunan(s), or Wallis and Futuna
Islanders; adjective--Wallisian, Futunan, or Wallis and Futuna Islander

_#_Ethnic divisions: almost entirely Polynesian

_#_Religion: largely Roman Catholic

_#_Language: French, Wallisian (indigenous Polynesian language)

_#_Literacy: 50% (male 50%, female 51%) at all ages can read and write
(1969)

_#_Labor force: NA

_#_Organized labor: NA

_*_Government
_#_Long-form name: Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands

_#_Type: overseas territory of France

_#_Capital: Mata-Utu (on Ile Uvea)

_#_Administrative divisions: none (overseas territory of France)

_#_Independence: none (overseas territory of France)

_#_Constitution: 28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

_#_Legal system: French

_#_National holiday: Taking of the Bastille, 14 July (1789)

_#_Executive branch: French president, high administrator; note--there
are three traditional kings with limited powers

_#_Legislative branch: unicameral Territorial Assembly
(Assemblee Territoriale)

_#_Judicial branch: none; justice generally administered under French
law by the chief administrator, but the three traditional kings
administer customary law and there is a magistrate in Mata-Utu

_#_Leaders:

Chief of State--President Francois MITTERRAND
(since 21 May 1981);

Head of Government--Chief Administrator Roger DUMEC
(since 15 July 1988)

_#_Political parties and leaders:
Rally for the Republic (RPR);
Union Populaire Locale (UPL);
Union Pour la Democratie Francaise (UDF);
Lua kae tahi (Giscardians);
Mouvement des Radicaux de Gauche (MRG)

_#_Suffrage: universal adult at age 18

_#_Elections:

Territorial Assembly--last held 15 March 1987
(next to be held March 1992);
results--percent of vote by party NA;
seats--(20 total) RPR 7, UPL 6, UDF and Lua kae tahi 7;

French Senate--last held NA September 1989
(next to be held by September 1992);
results--percent of vote by party NA;
seats--(1 total) RPR 1;

French National Assembly--last held 12 June 1988 (next to be held
by September 1992);
results--percent of vote by party NA;
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