Environment - current issues:
water supply depends on catchments to collect rainwater
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:
81,541 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 25.9% (male 10,667/female 10,440)
15-64 years: 68% (male 27,060/female 28,366)
65 years and over: 6.1% (male 1,607/female 3,401) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 28.1 years
male: 27 years
female: 29.1 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.43% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
16.03 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
6.29 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)