party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands, Whaling

signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements

Geography - note:

landlocked; divided into three natural zones: the southern, cultivated Sudanese; the central, semiarid Sahelian; and the northern, arid Saharan

People ::Mali

Population:

12,666,987 (July 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 70

Age structure:

0-14 years: 48.3% (male 3,089,406/female 3,023,341)

15-64 years: 48.7% (male 3,065,167/female 3,101,914)