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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.
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.
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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 ...
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 ...
The demographic table below shows all inhabited states and territories of Oceania. The information in this chart comes from the CIA World Factbook [ 9 ] or the United States Department of State [ 10 ] [m] , unless noted otherwise or not available (NA); where sources differ, references are included.
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.
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]