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The United Nations projects the population will stay around 10,000 in the 2020s, [5] and the Nauru Bureau of Statistics estimates the population will increase to 20,000 in 2038. [6] In Nauru's history, there have been six major demographics changes. The island was first inhabited by Micronesian people roughly 3,000 years ago. [7]
Nauru, [c] officially the Republic of Nauru [d], formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Micronesia, part of the Oceania region in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba of Kiribati about 300 kilometres (190 mi) to the east.
Nauru is a phosphate rock island, and its primary economic activity since 1907 has been the export of phosphate mined from the island. [2] With the exhaustion of phosphate reserves, its environment severely degraded by mining, and the trust established to manage the island's wealth significantly reduced in value, the government of Nauru has ...
Denigomodu is a district in the western part of the island of Nauru. It is the most populous district in Nauru. It houses the expatriate housing compound "The Location". [2] This makes it Nauru's largest settlement by population. As of 2021, 16% of the people in Nauru (around 1,900 people) live in Denigomodu. [1]
History of Nauru, is about Nauru, an island country in the Pacific Ocean. Human activity is thought to have begun roughly 3,000 years ago when clans settled the island. A people and culture developed on the island, the Nauru which had 12 tribes. At the end of the 1700s, a British ship came, and this was the first known contact with the outside ...
The economy of Nauru is tiny, based on a population in 2019 of only 11,550 people. [12] The economy has historically been based on phosphate mining . With primary phosphate reserves exhausted by the end of the 2010s, Nauru has sought to diversify its sources of income.
On both occasions the Nauruan population recovered. [2] Upon eclipsing a population of 1,500, a number considered to be the minimum required for the survival of a race (decided by the administrators of Nauru its chiefs after much deliberation), [3] Angam Day was declared. The first Angam was in 1932 and the second occasion in 1949.
In about 1920, influenza spread through Nauru, which took a heavy toll on the Nauruans. In 1925, the first cases of diabetes were diagnosed by doctors. Today, depending on age, every second to third Nauruan is diabetic – a higher rate than any other country in the world.