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Economic indicators

	2015	2020	2025
GDP: Gross domestic product (million current US$)	192	221	289^c
GDP growth rate (annual %, const. 2015 prices)	11.3	-1.5	2.7^c
GDP per capita (current US$)	1 640.0	1 752.0	2 178.0^c
Economy: Agriculture (% of Gross Value Added)	23.4	26.1	25.7^c
Economy: Industry (% of Gross Value Added)	15.1	9.5	10.8^c
Economy: Services and other activity (% of GVA)	61.5	64.4	63.5^c
Employment in agriculture (% of employed)	22.1^f	...	...
Employment in industry (% of employed)	16.1^f	...	...
Employment in services (% employed)	61.8^f	...	...
Unemployment (% of labour force)	30.6^g,f	...	...
Labour force participation rate (female/male pop. %)	52.3 / 66.8^h,f	... / ...	... / ...
CPI: Consumer Price Indexⁱ (2010=100)	100	103	121^c
Agricultural production index (2014-2016=100)	91	95	101^c
International trade: exports (million current US$)	10	9	5^i,e
International trade: imports (million current US$)	111	109	201^i,e
International trade: balance (million current US$)	-101	-100	-196^i,e
Balance of payments, current account (million US$)	56	71	-5^c

Social indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Population growth rate (average annual %)	1.3	2	1.4^a
Urban population (% of total population)	51.6	54.8^j	...
Urban population growth rate (average annual %)	3.5^k	...	...
Fertility rate, total (live births per woman)	3.4	3.3	3.1^a
Life expectancy at birth (females/males, years)	67.4 / 64.0	67.1 / 63.1	68.5 / 64.8^a
Population age distribution^l (0-14/60+ years old, %)	35.2 / 5.8	35.2 / 6.4	34.4 / 7.5^a
International migrant stock (000/% of total pop.)	2.9 / 2.5	3.1 / 2.5	3.3 / 2.5^e
Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)	58.8	57.9	53.1^a
Health: Current expenditure^m,n (% of GDP)	7.2	13.5	10.5^i,o
Health: Physicians (per 1 000 pop.)	0.2^p	...	...
Education: Primary gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	104.9 / 105.9	103.1 / 108.3	95.1 / 99.6^c
Education: Lowr. sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	102.6 / 89.9	104.8 / 104.5	100.5 / 99.2^c
Education: Upr. Sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	... / ...	... / ...	100.6 / 79.6^c
Intentional homicide rate (per 100 000 pop.)	7.1^q	...	...
Seats held by women in national parliaments (%)	8.7	6.5^r	11.1^r

Environment and infrastructure indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Individuals using the Internet (per 100 inhabitants)	14.9ⁱ	39.6^i,j	88^s,c
Threatened species (number)	100	108	201^e
Forested area (% of land area)	1.5ⁱ	1.5ⁱ	1.5^o
CO2 emission estimates (million tons/tons per capita)	0.1 / 0.5	0.1 / 0.6ⁱ	0.1 / 0.6^i,o
Energy production, primaryⁱ (Petajoules)	1	1	1^o
Energy supply per capita (Gigajoules)	12	13ⁱ	12^i,o
Tourist/visitor arrivals at national borders^t (000)	4	1	2^o
Important sites for terrestrial biodiversity protected (%)	40	40	40^e
Pop. using safely managed drinking water (urban/rural, %)	19.2 / 6.1	20.0 / 6.4	20.4 / 6.5^o
Pop. using safely managed sanitation (urban/rural, %)	24.8 / 21.9	24.4 / 24.2	24.6 / 25.1^o
Net Official Development Assist. received (% of GNI)	17.41	15.4	21.07^c

Footnotes

a		Projected est. (medium fertility variant).
b		Land area only. Excluding 84 square km of uninhabited islands.
c		2023
d		2015
e		2024
f		2010
g		De facto population.
h		Persons present (de facto).
i		Estimate.
j		2019
k		Data refers to a 5-year period preceding the reference year.
l		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division.
m		General government expenditure (GGE) can be larger than the Gross domestic product (GDP) because government accounts for a very large part of domestic consumption and because a large part of domestic consumption in the country is accounted for by imports.
n		Data refer to fiscal years beginning 1 July.
o		2022
p		2013
q		2012
r		Data at 1 January of the reporting year.
s		This figure includes all individuals who have access to the internet at home.
t		Air arrivals. Tarawa and Christmas Island.