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:
147,365,352 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 32.9% (male 24,957,997/female 23,533,894)
15-64 years: 63.6% (male 47,862,774/female 45,917,674)
65 years and over: 3.5% (male 2,731,578/female 2,361,435) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 22.2 years
male: 22.2 years
female: 22.2 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.09% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
29.8 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
8.27 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.68 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)