Terrain: coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic
Natural resources: timber, petroleum, small unexploited deposits of gold, manganese, uranium
Land use: arable land: 8% permanent crops: 4% meadows and pastures: 4% forest and woodland: 51% other: 33%
Irrigated land: NA sq km
Environment:
current issues: tap water is not potable; desertification
natural hazards: violent windstorms
international agreements: party to - Biodiversity, Endangered Species,
Nuclear Test Ban; signed, but not ratified - Desertification, Law of
the Sea
Note: insular and continental regions rather widely separated
@Equatorial Guinea:People
Population: 420,293 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 43% (female 90,404; male 90,997)
15-64 years: 53% (female 117,124; male 105,724)
65 years and over: 4% (female 8,969; male 7,075) (July 1995 est.)
Population growth rate: 2.59% (1995 est.)