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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, Ship Pollution, Whaling

signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements

Geography - note:

known as "The Nature Island of the Caribbean" due to its spectacular, lush, and varied flora and fauna, which are protected by an extensive natural park system; the most mountainous of the Lesser Antilles, its volcanic peaks are cones of lava craters and include Boiling Lake, the second-largest, thermally active lake in the world

People ::Dominica

Population:

72,660 (July 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 201

Age structure:

0–14 years: 24% (male 8,910/female 8,518)

15–64 years: 65.8% (male 24,532/female 23,301)

65 years and over: 10.2% (male 3,187/female 4,212) (2009 est.)

Median age:

total: 29.8 years

male: 29.4 years

female: 30.2 years (2009 est.)

Population growth rate:

0.208% (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 184

Birth rate:

15.73 births/1,000 population (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 135

Death rate:

8.2 deaths/1,000 population (July 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 104

Net migration rate:

−5.45 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 164

Urbanization:

urban population: 74% of total population (2008)

rate of urbanization: 0.2% annual rate of change (2005–10 est.)

Sex ratio:

at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female

under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female

15–64 years: 1.05 male(s)/female

65 years and over: 0.76 male(s)/female

total population: 1.02 male(s)/female (2009 est.)

Infant mortality rate:

total: 13.65 deaths/1,000 live births country comparison to the world: 133 male: 18.34 deaths/1,000 live births

female: 8.73 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:

total population: 75.55 years country comparison to the world: 76 male: 72.61 years

female: 78.64 years (2009 est.)

Total fertility rate:

2.09 children born/woman (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 123

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: