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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 ...
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.
China had offered Nauru, with a population of 12,500, money far in excess of what Taiwan provides its allies, Tien said. "Once again, it proves that China's trying everything they can – money ...
Nauru budget documents show two-thirds of government revenue last year came from fees paid by Australia to host a refugee processing centre, which began to be wound down in July.
A map of Nauru showing districts, and the current main villages Nauru's location. The Republic of Nauru originally consisted of 169 villages; by 1900 these were already partly abandoned, uninhabited or destroyed. With the increasing population growth the single villages merged into a single connected settlement, which today is spread out around ...