Dominican population growing

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According to National Statistics Office director, Pablo Tactuk, there are 9.7 million registered Dominicans and this number should reach 10 million by 2010. Tactuk added that this figure did not include the number of Haitians in the country. Projections indicate that there could be 11.2 million Dominicans by 2020. He explained that the slow growth of the population is due to the increased participation of women in the labor market. Tactuk made his comments during the XI Inter-institutional Conference on the National Statistics System. The topic of the Conference was "Dominican Republic: population estimates and projections, 1950-2050. The director said that the next census would be conducted in 2010. According to the report, life expectancy between 2005 and 2010 should be 72.24 years.

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