| Capital: |
Tarwara |
| Area size: |
730 sq. km Approximately five times the size of Washington D.C. |
| Time zone: |
Ranges from GMT +12 to GMT +14 |
| Currency: |
Australian dollar |
| Area code: |
(+) 686 |
| Driving: |
Left |
| Climate description: |
Tropical wet; heavy rains and trade winds moderate the low-lying island's hot and humid temperatures
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Language
English and Kiribati (Gilbertese)
Source: New Internationalist World Guide
Population
Future population estimates
0.1 million (2050)
Source: U.N. DESA (2006)
Ethnic groups
The population is largely of Micronesian descent; Kiribati 97 percent, mixed descent (Kiribati and other) 1.5 percent. There are Tuvaluan, European other minorities.
Source: NI World Guide
Religion
Catholic (53 percent) and Protestant (39 percent), including Adventists and Mormons.
Source: NI World Guide
Percentage urban population
Year women granted right to vote
1967
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
No data available
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
Maternal mortality
| 2005 |
No data available per 100,000 live births |
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| 2000 |
56 per 100,000 live births |
UNDP 2006 |
Human development index (HDI rank)
No data available (2001)
Percentage of children under weight for age (under age 5)
| 2000-2006 |
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| 1996-2005 |
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| 1996-2004 |
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| 1995-2003 |
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| 1995-2002 |
No data available percent |
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| 1995-2001 |
13 percent |
UNDP - Human Development Report 2003 |
| 1995-2000 |
No data available percent |
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Percentage of undernourished population
Food intake falls below the minimum requirement.
Population with access to improved water
Population with access to improved sanitation
| 2006 |
No data available percent |
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| 2004 |
40 percent |
UNICEF and WHO 2006 |
| 2002 |
No data available percent |
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| 2000 |
No data available percent |
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Literacy - average
No data available percent
Literacy - male
No data available percent
Literacy - female
No data available percent
Landlines telephones
| 2007 |
No data available per 1,000 people |
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| 2006 |
No data available per 1,000 people |
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| 2005 |
No data available per 1,000 people |
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| 2001 |
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| 2000 |
No data available per 1,000 people |
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Cellular telephone subscribers
| 2007 |
No data available per 1,000 people |
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| 2006 |
No data available per 1,000 people |
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| 2005 |
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| 2004 |
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| 2003 |
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| 2002 |
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| 2001 |
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| 2000 |
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Internet users
| 2007 |
No data available per 1,000 people |
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| 2006 |
No data available per 1,000 people |
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| 2005 |
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| 2004 |
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| 2000 |
No data available per 1,000 people |
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Transparency International corruption ranking (1=least corrupt, 179=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
No (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
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Source: Financial Tracking Service, ReliefWeb
Percentage of population living on less than US$1 a day
No data available percent
GNI per capita, Atlas method
| 2006 |
No data available current US$ |
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| 2005 |
No data available current US$ |
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| 2004 |
No data available current US$ |
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| 2003 |
No data available current US$ |
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| 2002 |
No data available current US$ |
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| 2001 |
No data available current US$ |
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| 2000 |
No data available current US$ |
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The purpose of the Atlas conversion factor is to reduce the impact of exchange rate fluctuations in a cross-country comparison of national incomes. The Atlas conversion factor for any year is the average of a country’s exchange rate (or alternative conversion factor) for that year and its exchange rates for the two preceding years.
GDP
| 2006 |
No data available current US$ billions |
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| 2005 |
No data available current US$ billions |
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| 2004 |
No data available current US$ billions |
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| 2003 |
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| 2002 |
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| 2001 |
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| 2000 |
No data available current US$ billions |
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Annual GDP growth
| 2006 |
No data available percent |
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| 2005 |
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| 2004 |
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Annual inflation
| 2006 |
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| 2005 |
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| 2004 |
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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
| 2006 |
No data available per 100,000 people |
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| 2005 |
No data available per 100,000 people |
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| 2004 |
No data available per 100,000 people |
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| 2002 |
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| 2000 |
No data available per 100,000 people |
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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
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