Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto
Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law
of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer
Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94,
Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
Pitch Lake, on Trinidad's southwestern coast, is the world's
largest natural reservoir of asphalt
People Trinidad and Tobago
Population:
1,065,842 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 20.1% (male 109,936/female 104,076)
15-64 years: 71.3% (male 398,657/female 361,093)
65 years and over: 8.6% (male 41,162/female 50,918) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 31.2 years
male: 30.8 years
female: 31.7 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
-0.87% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
12.9 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
10.57 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Net migration rate:
-11.07 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)