1%
other: 40%

Irrigated land: NA sq km

Natural hazards: NA

Environment--current issues: adequacy of fresh water supply;
sewage treatment

Environment--international agreements:
party to: none of the selected agreements
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements

Geography--note: landlocked; highlands are main recharge area for
Israel's coastal aquifers; there are 216 Israeli settlements and
civilian land use sites in the West Bank and 29 in East Jerusalem
(August 1998 est.)

People

Population: 1,611,109 (July 1999 est.)
note: in addition, there are some 166,000 Israeli settlers in the
West Bank and about 176,000 in East Jerusalem (August 1998 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 45% (male 370,770; female 352,803)
15-64 years: 52% (male 422,209; female 411,597)
65 years and over: 3% (male 22,376; female 31,354) (1999 est.)

Population growth rate: 3.14% (1999 est.)

Birth rate: 35.59 births/1,000 population (1999 est.)

Death rate: 4.2 deaths/1,000 population (1999 est.)

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1999 est.)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.71 male(s)/female
total population: 1.02 male(s)/female (1999 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 25.22 deaths/1,000 live births (1999 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 72.83 years
male: 70.96 years
female: 74.79 years (1999 est.)

Total fertility rate: 4.78 children born/woman (1999 est.)

Nationality:
noun: NA
adjective: NA

Ethnic groups: Palestinian Arab and other 83%, Jewish 17%

Religions: Muslim 75% (predominantly Sunni), Jewish 17%,
Christian and other 8%

Languages: Arabic, Hebrew (spoken by Israeli settlers and many
Palestinians), English (widely understood)

Literacy: NA

Government

Country name:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: West Bank

Data code: WE

Economy

Economy--overview: Economic conditions in the West Bank?where
economic activity is governed by the Paris Economic Protocol of
April 1994 between Israel and the Palestinian Authority--have
deteriorated since the early 1990s. Real per capita GDP for the West
Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS) declined 36.1% between 1992 and 1996
owing to the combined effect of falling aggregate incomes and robust
population growth. The dow