Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
Bikini and Enewetak are former US nuclear test sites; Kwajalein,
the famous World War II battleground, is used as a US missile test
range; island city of Ebeye is the second largest settlement in the
Marshall Islands, after the capital of Majuro, and one of the most
densely populated locations in the Pacific
People Marshall Islands
Population:
60,422 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 38.1% (male 11,720/female 11,295)
15-64 years: 59.2% (male 18,305/female 17,445)
65 years and over: 2.7% (male 801/female 856) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 20.3 years
male: 20.4 years
female: 20.3 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.25% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
33.05 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
4.78 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Net migration rate:
-5.78 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)