Land use: arable land: 10% permanent crops: 0% other: 90% (2005)
Irrigated land:
NA
Natural hazards:
Curacao and Bonaire are south of Caribbean hurricane belt and are
rarely threatened; Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint Eustatius are
subject to hurricanes from July to October
Environment - current issues:
NA
Geography - note:
the five islands of the Netherlands Antilles are divided
geographically into the Leeward Islands (northern) group (Saba, Sint
Eustatius, and Sint Maarten) and the Windward Islands (southern)
group (Bonaire and Curacao)
People Netherlands Antilles
Population:
221,736 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 23.9% (male 27,197/female 25,886)
15-64 years: 67.3% (male 71,622/female 77,710)
65 years and over: 8.7% (male 7,925/female 11,396) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 32.8 years
male: 31.1 years
female: 34.4 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.79% (2006 est.)