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  • Tibet is so thinly populated that it averages out 1.68 persons per square kilometers. About 90% of Tibetans work as farmers and herdsmen. Traditionally, farmers settled in small villages of Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra) and its major tributaries Kyichu and Nuuang-chu with barely, wheat, peas and rape-seed as their main crops. The remaining population, approximately 10%, lives in towns earning their living mainly on business and handicraft, and many are factory workers and government officials. However, nowadays frequent visitors to Tibet can make out folks from different regions judging by costumes and dialects. Folks from agricultural regions dress in woolen home-woven gowns, and those from the grassland clad in sheepskin. Men folk from Chamdo wear huge tassels of black or red silk which were used in old days for protection in fight, while the Lhasa residents are more stylish and modern.
  • Tibetans share their region with more than ten ethnic groups, such as: Menpa, Luopa, Han Chinese, Hui, Sherpa and a few Deng people. Religion seems almost everything. But among them, Tibetan Buddhism is the main religion for the Tibetans. Most Tibetans are devout Buddhists while a few believe in the old Bon. Islam and Catholicism also have a few followers in Lhasa and Yanjing respectively.
    Since China's Family Planning Program is not carried out among Tibetan people, the population in Tibet keeps growing. According to the census conducted in 2000, there are 2,616,300 people in Tibet, with Tibetans totaling 2,411,100 or 92.2% of the current regional population. The census also revealed that the Tibetan's average lifespan has increased to 68 due to the improving standard of living and access to medical services and Illiteracy has decreased to 850,700.
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