rate: 13.59 births/1,000 population (1993 est.) Nationality:

air pollution in Caracas and Maracaibo lowlands in southeast Natural resources: timber Land use: arable land: 10% permanent crops: 1% meadows and pastures: 0% forest and woodland: 0% other: 74% Irrigated land: NA km2 Environment: natural freshwater sources are meager, so large water catchments (concrete or natural surface tracks Pipelines: crude oil 130 km Ports: coastal - Bremerhaven, Brunsbuttel, Cuxhaven, Emden, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringen Independence: 18 April 1993; resigned 7 June 1993; likely replacement - E'tibar MAMEDOV); National Parliament (National

washout