Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered
Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the
Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
known as "The Nature Island of the Caribbean" due to its
spectacular, lush, and varied flora and fauna, which are protected
by an extensive natural park system; the most mountainous of the
Lesser Antilles, its volcanic peaks are cones of lava craters and
include Boiling Lake, the second-largest, thermally active lake in
the world
People Dominica
Population:
69,655 (July 2003 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 27.8% (male 9,807; female 9,571)
15-64 years: 64.3% (male 23,024; female 21,768)
65 years and over: 7.9% (male 2,226; female 3,259) (2003 est.)
Median age:
total: 28.4 years
male: 28.1 years
female: 28.8 years (2002)
Population growth rate:
-0.63% (2003 est.)
Birth rate:
16.78 births/1,000 population (2003 est.)
Death rate:
6.99 deaths/1,000 population (2003 est.)
Net migration rate:
-16.11 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2003 est.)