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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 population of Nauru, 1886–2013 Nauru had 12,511 residents as of July 2021. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The population was previously larger, but in 2006 the island saw 1,500 people leave during a repatriation of immigrant workers from Kiribati and Tuvalu.
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 ...
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The Nauruans have two elements of their population: the native Micronesians and the Polynesians who had immigrated long before. Through these two extremes, diverse traditions came to exist. In about 1920, influenza spread through Nauru, which took a heavy toll on the Nauruans.
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]
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.