_#_Land use: arable land 28%; permanent crops 3%; meadows and pastures 46%; forest and woodland 3%; other 20%; includes irrigated 3%
_#_Environment: deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification
_#_Note: there are 38 Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights
_*People #_Population: 12,965,996 (July 1991), growth rate 3.8% (1991); in addition, there are at least 12,000 Druze and 13,000 Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights (1990 est.)
_#_Birth rate: 43 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 5 deaths/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Infant mortality rate: 37 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)
_#_Life expectancy at birth: 68 years male, 71 years female (1991)
_#_Total fertility rate: 6.7 children born/woman (1991)