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Economic indicators

	2015	2020	2024
GDP: Gross domestic product (million current US$)	170	178	224^c
GDP growth rate (annual %, const. 2015 prices)	9.9	-1.4	1.2^c
GDP per capita (current US$)	1 459.1	1 404.8	1 704.4^c
Economy: Agriculture^f (% of Gross Value Added)	22.2	25.4	24.5^c
Economy: Industry^f (% of Gross Value Added)	15.7	9.5	10.1^c
Economy: Services and other activity^f (% of GVA)	62.1	65.1	65.5^c
Employment in agriculture (% of employed)	22.1^g	...	...
Employment in industry (% of employed)	16.1^g	...	...
Employment in services (% employed)	61.8^g	...	...
Unemployment (% of labour force)	30.6^h,g	...	...
Labour force participation rate (female/male pop. %)	52.3 / 66.8^i,g	... / ...	... / ...
CPI: Consumer Price Index^j (2010=100)	100	103	105^k
Agricultural production index (2014-2016=100)	91	94	97^c
International trade: exports (million current US$)	10	9	7^j,e
International trade: imports (million current US$)	111	109	210^j,e
International trade: balance (million current US$)	-101	-100	-203^j,e
Balance of payments, current account (million US$)	56	71	-6^c

Social indicators

	2015	2020	2024
Population growth rate (average annual %)	1.3	2	1.5^a
Urban population (% of total population)	51.6	54.8^l	...
Urban population growth rate (average annual %)	3.5^m	...	...
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	68.3 / 64.7^a
Population age distributionⁿ (0-14/60+ years old, %)	35.2 / 5.8	35.2 / 6.4	34.7 / 7.2^a
International migrant stock (000/% of total pop.)	2.9 / 2.6	3.1 / 2.6	... / ...
Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)	58.8	57.9	53.9^a
Health: Current expenditure^o,p (% of GDP)	8.1	17	14.8^k
Health: Physicians (per 1 000 pop.)	0.2^q	...	...
Education: Government expenditure (% of GDP)	12.1	13.6^r	...
Education: Primary gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	105.1 / 104.6	102.1 / 100.8	... / ...
Education: Lowr. sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	102.9 / 90.0	105.2 / 103.7	... / ...
Intentional homicide rate (per 100 000 pop.)	7.2^s	...	...
Seats held by women in national parliaments (%)	8.7	6.5^t	6.7^t

Environment and infrastructure indicators

	2015	2020	2024
Individuals using the Internet^j (per 100 inhabitants)	14.9	52.1	54.4^c
Threatened species (number)	100	108	116^e
Forested area (% of land area)	1.5^j	1.5^j	1.5^k
CO2 emission estimates (million tons/tons per capita)	0.1 / 0.5	0.1 / 0.6^j	0.1 / 0.6^j,k
Energy production, primary^j (Petajoules)	1	1	1^k
Energy supply per capita (Gigajoules)	12	13^j	12^j,k
Tourist/visitor arrivals at national borders^u (000)	4	1	2^c
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^c
Pop. using safely managed sanitation (urban/rural, %)	24.8 / 21.9	24.4 / 24.2	24.6 / 25.1^c
Net Official Development Assist. received (% of GNI)	18.51	17.22	...

Footnotes

a		Projected estimate (medium fertility variant).
b		Land area only. Excluding 84 square km of uninhabited islands.
c		2022
d		2015
e		2023
f		At factor cost.
g		2010
h		De facto population.
i		Persons present (de facto).
j		Estimate.
k		2021
l		2019
m		Data refers to a 5-year period preceding the reference year.
n		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division.
o		Data refer to fiscal years beginning 1 July.
p		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.
q		2013
r		2017
s		2012
t		Data are as at 1 January of reporting year.
u		Air arrivals. Tarawa and Christmas Island.