By Charles Dickens CONTENTS Book the Second--the Golden Thread CHAPTER I. Belgian and aid from France. National product: GDP - purchasing power equivalent - $259.8 billion (1992) National product real growth rate: 0.36% (1993 est.) Total fertility rate: 4.35 children born/woman (1993 est.) Birth rate: 33.16 births/1,000 population (1993 est.) Net migration rate: -1.69 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.) Death rate: 9.77 deaths/1,000 population
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