Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note: 41 granitic and about 75 coralline islands
People Seychelles
Population:
81,188 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 26.4% (male 10,839/female 10,601)
15-64 years: 67.4% (male 26,709/female 28,025)
65 years and over: 6.2% (male 1,622/female 3,392) (2005 est.)
Median age:
total: 27.7 years
male: 26.62 years
female: 28.76 years (2005 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.43% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
16.22 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
6.34 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate:
-5.54 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)