Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: 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:
11,665,937 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 47.3% (male 2,811,539/female 2,704,498)
15-64 years: 50.6% (male 2,890,119/female 3,009,281)
65 years and over: 2.1% (male 130,953/female 119,547) (2005 est.)
Median age:
total: 16.25 years
male: 15.8 years
female: 16.72 years (2005 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.63% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
48.3 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
21.33 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.65 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)