Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto
Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law
of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
landlocked; lies between Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil; population
concentrated in southern part of country
People Paraguay
Population:
6,506,464 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 37.7% (male 1,245,149/female 1,204,970)
15-64 years: 57.5% (male 1,878,761/female 1,862,266)
65 years and over: 4.8% (male 145,899/female 169,419) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 21.3 years
male: 21.1 years
female: 21.6 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.45% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
29.1 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
4.49 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.08 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)