Environment - current issues:
deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; overfishing
Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered
Species, Law of the Sea, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
this small country is swampy along its western coast and low-lying
further inland
People Guinea-Bissau
Population:
1,360,827 (July 2003 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 41.9% (male 284,150; female 285,370)
15-64 years: 55.2% (male 358,891; female 392,703)
65 years and over: 2.9% (male 17,285; female 22,428) (2003 est.)
Median age:
total: 18.8 years
male: 18.2 years
female: 19.4 years (2002)
Population growth rate:
2.02% (2003 est.)
Birth rate:
38.41 births/1,000 population (2003 est.)
Death rate:
16.62 deaths/1,000 population (2003 est.)