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
Population:
2,071,210 (July 2004 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 21.5% (male 231,078; female 213,906)
15-64 years: 67.8% (male 707,298; female 696,830)
65 years and over: 10.7% (male 97,437; female 124,661) (2004 est.)
Median age:
total: 32.8 years
male: 31.7 years
female: 33.9 years (2004 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.39% (2004 est.)
Birth rate:
13.14 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Death rate:
7.83 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Net migration rate:
-1.45 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.)