Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto
Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental
Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer
Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
most of the country is situated on deltas of large rivers flowing
from the Himalayas: the Ganges unites with the Jamuna (main channel
of the Brahmaputra) and later joins the Meghna to eventually empty
into the Bay of Bengal
People Bangladesh
Population:
144,319,628 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 33.1% (male 24,590,207/female 23,162,420)
15-64 years: 63.5% (male 46,764,824/female 44,868,733)
65 years and over: 3.4% (male 2,650,683/female 2,282,761) (2005 est.)
Median age:
total: 21.87 years
male: 21.88 years
female: 21.85 years (2005 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.09% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
30.01 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
8.4 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.69 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)