Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered
Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer
Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Law of the
Sea
Geography - note:
landlocked; one of the hottest countries in the world: northern
four-fifths is desert, southern one-fifth is savanna, suitable for
livestock and limited agriculture
People Niger
Population:
11,360,538 (July 2004 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 47.5% (male 2,749,039; female 2,643,479)
15-64 years: 50.4% (male 2,799,125; female 2,925,133)
65 years and over: 2.1% (male 128,101; female 115,661) (2004 est.)
Median age:
total: 16.2 years
male: 15.7 years
female: 16.7 years (2004 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.67% (2004 est.)
Birth rate:
48.91 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Death rate:
21.51 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.67 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.)