Environment - international agreements:
party to: Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered
Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection,
Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
landlocked; major transportation corridor from Western and Central
Europe to Aegean Sea and Southern Europe to Western Europe
People Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
Population:
2,063,122
note: a census was taken 1-15 November 2002, but results are not yet
available (July 2003 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 21.9% (male 235,102; female 217,574)
15-64 years: 67.5% (male 700,929; female 691,552)
65 years and over: 10.6% (male 96,039; female 121,926) (2003 est.)
Median age:
total: 32.5 years
male: 31.4 years
female: 33.6 years (2002)
Population growth rate:
0.4% (2003 est.)
Birth rate:
13.2 births/1,000 population (2003 est.)
Death rate:
7.78 deaths/1,000 population (2003 est.)
Net migration rate:
-1.46 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2003 est.)