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Reading no. 2024/107

PopulationObserved data

Population density, Pacific

590inhabitants per km²

Pacific

NauruTuvaluGuamMarshall IslandsKiribatiMicronesiaTongaFrench Polynesia

Inhabitants per square kilometre of land, latest known year of each territory up to 2022: the top ten of the Pacific.

  1. Nauru590
  2. Tuvalu333
  3. Guam306
  4. Marshall Islands223
  5. Kiribati161
  6. Micronesia160
  7. Tonga146
  8. French Polynesia81
  9. Samoa77
  10. Fiji50

The first territory of the ranking, Nauru, counts 590 inhabitants per square kilometre of land.

Observation

Method

World Bank indicator EN.POP.DNST, read for seventeen territories of the Pacific from 2018 to 2022. The latest published value of each is kept, then the ten highest are ranked.

Source

Nature

Observed data

Value read at the source and reproduced without processing.

Confidence

Medium

See also

2024/022 · 22 Jan3.88children per womanNumber of children per woman, Pacific2026/067 · 8 Mar45.5%Share of parliamentary seats held by women in the Pacific2025/352 · 18 Dec42.6% of GDPRemittances received as a share of gross domestic product, Pacific2025/339 · 5 Dec27.8% of land areaShare of arable land in land area, Pacific

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