Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto
Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
landlocked; the western and central low-lying, desolate portions of
the country make up the great Garagum (Kara-Kum) desert, which
occupies over 80% of the country; eastern part is plateau
People Turkmenistan
Population:
5,042,920 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 35.2% (male 913,988/female 863,503)
15-64 years: 60.7% (male 1,501,486/female 1,557,155)
65 years and over: 4.1% (male 79,227/female 127,561) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 21.8 years
male: 20.9 years
female: 22.7 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.83% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
27.61 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
8.6 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.75 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)