Environment - international agreements:
party to: Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate
Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species,
Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship
Pollution, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
strategically located east of the Black Sea; Georgia controls much
of the Caucasus Mountains and the routes through them
People Georgia
Population:
4,693,892 (July 2004 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 18.7% (male 461,967; female 416,898)
15-64 years: 65.8% (male 1,480,217; female 1,607,509)
65 years and over: 15.5% (male 290,534; female 436,767) (2004 est.)
Median age:
total: 37 years
male: 34.5 years
female: 39.2 years (2004 est.)
Population growth rate:
-0.36% (2004 est.)
Birth rate:
10.1 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Death rate:
8.98 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Net migration rate:
-4.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.)