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Table 1 Estimated population size, growth, age group and density, country size, and income

From: How do Pacific Island countries add up on contraception, abortion and reproductive coercion? Guidance from the Guttmacher report on investing in sexual and reproductive health

Country (last census/official estimates)

2020 population estimate

Growth rate

% of population 15–24 years

0–24 years

2018 Density

Area (km2)

Income groupb

FSM (2010/2015)

115,173

1.06%

20.1

51.3

164/km2

700

LLMIC

Fiji (2017)

897,295

0.73%

16.4

45.4

49/km2

18,270

UMIC

Kiribati (2015)

119,699

1.57%

17.7

53.6

147/km

810

LLMIC

Marshall Islands (2011/2017)

59,190

0.68%

18a

58a

329/km2

180

UMIC

Nauru (2011/2015)

10,824

0.63%

17a

56a

541/km2

20

UMIC

Palau (2015/2017)

18,094

0.48%

15a

35a

39/km2

460

HIC

Samoa (2016/2017)

198,614

0.67%

18.1

55.3

70/km2

2,830

UMIC

Solomon Islands (2009/2017)

721,000

2.55%

19.1

59.1

25/km2

27,990

LLMIC

Tonga (2016)

105,845

1.15%

20

54.7

147/km2

720

UMIC

Tuvalu (2012/2016)

11,792

1.25%

19a

52a

393/km2

30

UMIC

Vanuatu (2016)

308,145

2.42%

18.1

56.6

25/km2

12,190

LLMIC

  1. [46] a[47]. b[20]