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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.
Nauru, [c] officially the Republic of Nauru [d], formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in the Oceania region of the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba of Kiribati about 300 kilometres (190 mi) to the east.
Marshall Islands * Asia-Pacific 6,693 Martinique * Latin America 32,857 Mayotte * Africa 22,557 Micronesia * Asia-Pacific 5,726 Monaco * Europe 242,437 Montserrat * Latin America 21,123 Nauru * Asia-Pacific 23,398 New Caledonia * Asia-Pacific 48,630 Palau * Asia-Pacific 19,451 Palestine * Asia-Pacific 6,465
Mark Zuckerberg is currently the third richest person in the world with a net worth of approximately $18079 billion. He started Facebook in 2004 when he was 19 years old and is now the co-founder ...
Per Forbes (April 2024) [1]; Rank Rank per capita Country/Territory Billionaires Rate - World 2,781: 0.343 1 11 United States 813: 2.420 2 53 China 406: 0.288 3 58 India 200: 0.144
Forbes keeps a running list of real-time billionaires around the world. These five New Jersey residents are currently on the list.
These countries/regions could appear in this list as having a small GDP. This would be because the country/region listed has a small population, and therefore small total economy; the GDP is calculated as the population times market value of the goods and services produced per person in the country. [4]
The economy of Banaba and Nauru has been almost wholly dependent on phosphate, which has led to environmental disaster on these islands, with 80% of the islands' surface having been strip-mined. The phosphate deposits were virtually exhausted by 2000, although some small-scale mining is still in progress on Nauru. Mining ended on Banaba in 1979.