Environment - international agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol
Geography - note:
controls most land routes from Western Europe to Aegean Sea and
Turkish Straits; the vast majority of Adriatic Sea islands lie off
the coast of Croatia - some 1,200 islands, islets, ridges, and rocks
People Croatia
Population:
4,494,749 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 16.2% (male 373,638/female 354,261)
15-64 years: 67% (male 1,497,958/female 1,515,314)
65 years and over: 16.8% (male 288,480/female 465,098) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 40.3 years
male: 38.3 years
female: 42.1 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
-0.03% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
9.61 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
11.48 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Net migration rate:
1.58 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)