_#_Natural resources: arable land, fish
_#_Land use: arable land 54%; permanent crops 4%; meadows and pastures 4%; forest and woodland 31%; other 7%; includes irrigated 9%
_#_Environment: subject to cyclones (November to April); almost completely surrounded by reefs
_#_Note: located 900 km east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean
_*People #_Population: 1,081,000 (July 1991), growth rate 0.8% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 19 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 6 deaths/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Net migration rate: - 4 migrants/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Infant mortality rate: 20 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)
_#_Life expectancy at birth: 66 years male, 74 years female (1991)