_#_Environment: subject to hurricanes, flooding, and volcanic activity that result in an average of one major natural disaster every five years
_#_Note: located 625 km southeast of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Sea
_*People #_Population: 345,180 (July 1991), growth rate 0.9% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 19 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 7 deaths/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Net migration rate: - 3 migrants/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Infant mortality rate: 10 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)
_#_Life expectancy at birth: 73 years male, 80 years female (1991)
_#_Total fertility rate: 2.1 children born/woman (1991)
_#_Nationality: noun—Martiniquais (sing. and pl.); adjective—Martiniquais