Nauru
| Capital: | N/A |
| Area size (Land only): | 20 sq. km Approximately twice the size of Manhattan |
| Time zone: | GMT +12 |
| Currency: | Australian dollar |
| Area code: | (+) 674 |
| Driving: | Left |
| Climate description: | Tropical with a westerly monsoon season from November to February |
People
Standard of living
Economy & aid
Health
Disasters, conflict & migration
Language
English is the official language, but Nauruan is also spoken.
Source: New Internationalist World Guide
Population
Future population estimates
0.0 million (2050)
Source: U.N. DESA (2009)
Ethnic groups
The Nauruan people are of mixed Polynesian, Micronesian and Melanesian origin. There are also other Pacific Islanders (workers from Tuvalu and Kiribati), with smaller numbers of Chinese, Australians, New Zealanders and Europeans.
Source: NI World Guide
Religion
Christian
Source: NI World Guide
Percentage urban population
Year women granted right to vote
1968
Source: U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report
Where two figures are shown, the first refers to a partial recognition of the right to vote and the second to the year women received the right to vote on a universal and equal basis.
Net percentage of girls enrolled in primary education
73 (2007)
Source: UNESCO
Percentage of population under 15
No data available percent
English is the official language, but Nauruan is also spoken.
Source: New Internationalist World Guide
Population
| 2009 | 0.0 million | U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Population Division (2009) |
| 2007 | 0.0 million | U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Population Division (2006) |
| 2006 | 0.0 million | U.N. DESA (2006) |
| 2005 | 0.0 million | U.N. DESA (2006) |
| 2004 | 0.0 million | U.N. DESA (2006) |
| 2003 | 0.0 million | U.N. DESA (2006) |
| 2002 | 0.0 million | U.N. DESA (2006) |
| 2001 | 0.0 million | U.N. DESA (2006) |
| 2000 | 0.0 million | U.N. DESA (2006) |
Future population estimates
0.0 million (2050)
Source: U.N. DESA (2009)
Ethnic groups
The Nauruan people are of mixed Polynesian, Micronesian and Melanesian origin. There are also other Pacific Islanders (workers from Tuvalu and Kiribati), with smaller numbers of Chinese, Australians, New Zealanders and Europeans.
Source: NI World Guide
Religion
Christian
Source: NI World Guide
Percentage urban population
| 2007 | 100.0 percent | U.N. DESA - World Urbanisation Prospects 2005 |
| 2006 | 100.0 percent | U.N. DESA (2005) |
| 2005 | 100 percent | U.N. DESA (2005) |
| 2004 | 100 percent | U.N. DESA (2005) |
| 2003 | 100 percent | U.N. DESA (2005) |
| 2002 | 100 percent | U.N. DESA (2005) |
| 2001 | 100 percent | U.N. DESA (2005) |
| 2000 | 100 percent | U.N. DESA (2005) |
Year women granted right to vote
1968
Source: U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report
Where two figures are shown, the first refers to a partial recognition of the right to vote and the second to the year women received the right to vote on a universal and equal basis.
Net percentage of girls enrolled in primary education
73 (2007)
Source: UNESCO
Percentage of population under 15
No data available percent
Average life expectancy
No data available years
Life expectancy - male
No data available years
Life expectancy - female
No data available years
Infant mortality
Child mortality - deaths before the age of five
Births attended by skilled personnel
No data available percent
Maternal mortality
No data available per 100,000 live births
Human development index (HDI rank)
No data available (2001)
Percentage of children under weight for age (under age 5)
No data available percent
Percentage of undernourished population
No data available percent
Population with access to improved water
No data available percent
Population with access to improved sanitation
No data available percent
Literacy - average
No data available percent
Literacy - male
No data available percent
Literacy - female
No data available percent
Landlines telephones
Cellular telephone subscribers
Internet users
No data available per 1,000 people
Transparency International corruption ranking (Scale: 1 = least corrupt, >175 = most corrupt)
Signatory of International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment for the crime of Genocide
No (1948)
Source: UNDP - Human Development Report
Signatory of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Signed but not yet ratified (1984)
Source: UNDP - Human Development Report
Signatory of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Yes (1989)
Source: UNDP - Human Development Report
No data available years
Life expectancy - male
No data available years
Life expectancy - female
No data available years
Infant mortality
| 2007 | 25 per 1,000 live births | U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) - State of the World's Children 2009 |
| 2006 | 25 per 1,000 live births | UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2008 |
| 2005 | 25 per 1,000 live births | U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) - State of the World's Children 2007 |
| 2004 | 25 per 1,000 live births | UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2006 |
| 2003 | No data available per 1,000 live births | |
| 2002 | No data available per 1,000 live births | |
| 2001 | No data available per 1,000 live births | |
| 2000 | No data available per 1,000 live births |
Child mortality - deaths before the age of five
| 2007 | 30 per 1,000 live births | U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) - State of the World's Children 2009 |
| 2006 | 30 per 1,000 live births | UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2008 |
| 2005 | 30 per 1,000 live births | UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2007 |
| 2004 | 30 per 1,000 live births | UNICEF - State of the World's Children 2006 |
| 2000 | No data available per 1,000 live births |
Births attended by skilled personnel
No data available percent
Maternal mortality
No data available per 100,000 live births
Human development index (HDI rank)
No data available (2001)
Percentage of children under weight for age (under age 5)
No data available percent
Percentage of undernourished population
No data available percent
Population with access to improved water
No data available percent
Population with access to improved sanitation
No data available percent
Literacy - average
No data available percent
Literacy - male
No data available percent
Literacy - female
No data available percent
Landlines telephones
| 2008 | No data available per 1,000 people | |
| 2007 | No data available per 1,000 people | |
| 2006 | No data available per 1,000 people | |
| 2005 | 184 per 1,000 people | ITU 2009 |
| 2004 | 184 per 1,000 people | ITU 2009 |
| 2003 | 184 per 1,000 people | ITU 2009 |
| 2002 | 184 per 1,000 people | ITU 2009 |
| 2001 | 184 per 1,000 people | ITU 2009 |
| 2000 | 179 per 1,000 people | ITU 2009 |
Cellular telephone subscribers
| 2008 | No data available per 1,000 people | |
| 2007 | No data available per 1,000 people | |
| 2006 | No data available per 1,000 people | |
| 2005 | 149 per 1,000 people | ITU 2009 |
| 2004 | 149 per 1,000 people | ITU 2009 |
| 2003 | 149 per 1,000 people | ITU 2009 |
| 2002 | 149 per 1,000 people | ITU 2009 |
| 2001 | 149 per 1,000 people | ITU 2009 |
| 2000 | 120 per 1,000 people | ITU 2009 |
Internet users
No data available per 1,000 people
Transparency International corruption ranking (Scale: 1 = least corrupt, >175 = most corrupt)
| 2008 | Not ranked | |
| 2007 | Not ranked | |
| 2006 | Not ranked | |
| 2002 | Not ranked | |
| 2001 | Not ranked | |
| 2000 | Not ranked |
Signatory of International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment for the crime of Genocide
No (1948)
Source: UNDP - Human Development Report
Signatory of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Signed but not yet ratified (1984)
Source: UNDP - Human Development Report
Signatory of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Yes (1989)
Source: UNDP - Human Development Report
International humanitarian aid flows
Access the Financial Tracking Service, a global real-time database which records all reported humanitarian aid - including that for NGOs, the Red Cross/Crescent Movement, bilateral aid, in-kind aid and private donations - searchable by country.
Source: Financial Tracking Service, ReliefWeb
Percentage of population living on less than US$1 a day
No data available percent
GNI per capita, Atlas method
No data available current US$
GDP
No data available current US$ billions
Annual GDP growth
No data available percent
Annual inflation
No data available percent
Share of income or consumption (poorest 10 percent)
No data available
Share of income or consumption (richest 10 percent)
No data available
No data available percent
GNI per capita, Atlas method
No data available current US$
GDP
No data available current US$ billions
Annual GDP growth
No data available percent
Annual inflation
No data available percent
Share of income or consumption (poorest 10 percent)
No data available
Share of income or consumption (richest 10 percent)
No data available
Physicians
Percentage HIV+ (adults aged 15-49)
No data available percent
Malaria
No risk
Source: WHO
TB cases
| 2000-2004 | No data available per 100,000 people | |
| 1990-2004 | 145 per 100,000 people | UNDP 2006 |
| 1990-2003 | No data available per 100,000 people | |
| 1990-2002 | No data available per 100,000 people |
Percentage HIV+ (adults aged 15-49)
No data available percent
Malaria
No risk
Source: WHO
TB cases
| 2007 | 33 per 100,000 people | WHO 2009 |
| 2006 | 132 per 100,000 people | WHO 2009 |
| 2005 | 121 per 100,000 people | WHO 2009 |
| 2004 | 110 per 100,000 people | WHO 2009 |
| 2003 | 33 per 100,000 people | WHO 2009 |
| 2002 | 55 per 100,000 people | WHO 2009 |
| 2001 | 33 per 100,000 people | WHO 2009 |
| 2000 | 44 per 100,000 people | WHO 2009 |
Chronology of natural disasters
Access EM-DAT, a database of natural disasters from 1900 to the present - death tolls and numbers of affected people - searchable by country.
Source: Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Number of refugees originating here
Number of refugees residing here
No data available
Number of internally displaced people\Estimate
Landmine casualties per year
Casualty figures may include both civilians and military personnel injured or killed by landmines and unexploded ordnance.
Signatory to landmine convention?
Yes (2000)
Source: Landmine Monitor Report
Percentage of GDP spent on military
No data available percent
Percentage of GDP spent on education
Percentage of GDP spent on health
| 2008 | 3 | UNHCR |
| 2007 | 3 | UNHCR |
| 2006 | 3 | Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) |
Number of refugees residing here
No data available
Number of internally displaced people\Estimate
| No data available | |||
Landmine casualties per year
| 2004 | 0 | Landmine Monitor Report 2005 |
| 2003 | 0 | Landmine Monitor Report 2004 |
Casualty figures may include both civilians and military personnel injured or killed by landmines and unexploded ordnance.
Signatory to landmine convention?
Yes (2000)
Source: Landmine Monitor Report
Percentage of GDP spent on military
No data available percent
Percentage of GDP spent on education
| 2002-2005 | No data available percent | |
| 2002-2004 | No data available percent | |
| 2000-2002 | 6.9 percent | UNDP 2005 |
| 1999-2001 | No data available percent | |
| 1998-2000 | No data available percent |
Percentage of GDP spent on health
| 2004 | No data available percent | |
| 2003-2004 | No data available percent | |
| 2002 | 6.7 percent | UNDP 2005 |
| 2001 | No data available percent | |
| 2000 | No data available percent |
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