Environment - current issues:
NA
Environment - international agreements:
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air
Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94,
Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Biodiversity, Climate Change,
Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes,
Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Tropical Timber 82, Tropical
Timber 94
signed but not ratified: Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds
People European Union
Population:
456,953,258 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 16.03% (male 37,608,010/female 35,632,351)
15-64 years: 67.17% (male 154,439,536/female 152,479,619)
65 years and over: 16.81% (male 31,515,921/female 45,277,821) (2005
est.)
Median age:
NA
Population growth rate:
0.15% (July 2005 est.)
Birth rate:
10 births/1,000 population (July 2005 est.)
Death rate:
10.1 deaths/1,000 population (July 2005 est.)
Net migration rate:
1.5 migrant(s)/1,000 population (July 2005 est.)