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General Information

Region		Micronesia
Population (000, 2025)		12^a
Pop. density (per km2, 2025)		601.3^a
Capital city		Yaren
Capital city pop. (000, 2025)		11.3^c,d
UN membership date		14 September 1999
Surface area (km2)		21^b
Sex ratio (m per 100 f)		103.6^a
National currency		Australian Dollar (AUD)
Exchange rate (per US$)		1.6^e

Economic indicators

	2015	2020	2025
GDP: Gross domestic product (million current US$)	104	148	176^b
GDP growth rate (annual %, const. 2015 prices)	2.8	2	0.6^b
GDP per capita (current US$)	9 526.0	12 710.0	14 812.0^b
Economy: Agriculture^f (% of Gross Value Added)	2.4	2.4	2.4^b
Economy: Industry^f,g (% of Gross Value Added)	40.7	36.4	36.5^b
Economy: Services and other activity^f (% of GVA)	56.9	61.2	61^b
Unemployment (% of labour force)	23^h,i	...	...
Labour force participation rate (female/male pop. %)	49.3 / 78.9ⁱ	... / ...	... / ...
CPI: Consumer Price Index (2010=100)	100^j	...	...
Agricultural production index (2014-2016=100)	100	102	103^b
Balance of payments, current account (million US$)	-17	3	2^b

Social indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Population growth rate (average annual %)	1.9	0.3	0.6^a
Urban population (% of total population)	100	100^k	...
Urban population growth rate (average annual %)	2.3^l	...	...
Fertility rate, total (live births per woman)	4.1	3.5	3.2^a
Life expectancy at birth (females/males, years)	64.2 / 58.2	64.0 / 59.3	64.4 / 60.5^a
Population age distribution^m (0-14/60+ years old, %)	38.2 / 3.5	38.0 / 4.3	37.2 / 5.4^a
International migrant stock^n,o (000/% of total pop.)	1.8 / 16.7	2.2 / 18.9	2.5 / 21.3^e
Refugees and others of concern to UNHCR (000)	0.8	1.2	0.1^e
Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)	33	28.3	24.9^a
Health: Current expenditure^p,q,r (% of GDP)	14	11.6	18.2^s
Health: Physicians (per 1 000 pop.)	1.3	...	...
Education: Primary gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	98.1 / 100.0	105.7 / 99.0	110.4 / 108.1^b
Education: Lowr. sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	79.1 / 79.2^t	92.0 / 80.9	96.7 / 90.6^b
Education: Upr. Sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	96.8 / 91.3^t	75.6 / 57.2	83.9 / 79.8^b
Seats held by women in national parliaments (%)	5.3	10.5^u	10.5^u

Environment and infrastructure indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Individuals using the Internet (per 100 inhabitants)	54^v,i	81.7^w	...
Threatened species (number)	80	86	182^e
Forested area (% of land area)	0^w	0^w	0^s
CO2 emission estimates^w (million tons/tons per capita)	0.1 / 5.1	0.1 / 4.7	0.1 / 5.1^s
Energy production, primary (Petajoules)	0	0	0^w,s
Energy supply per capita^w (Gigajoules)	69	64	70^s
Important sites for terrestrial biodiversity protected (%)	0	0	0^e
Net Official Development Assist. received (% of GNI)	26.71	15.11	14.34^b

Footnotes

a		Projected est. (medium fertility variant).
b		2023
c		Refers to Nauru.
d		2018
e		2024
f		At producers' prices.
g		Data classified according to ISIC Rev. 4.
h		Break in the time series.
i		2011
j		2012
k		2019
l		Data refers to a 5-year period preceding the reference year.
m		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division.
n		Including refugees.
o		Refers to foreign citizens.
p		Indicators are sensitive to external funds flowing in to the country.
q		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.
r		Data refer to fiscal years beginning 1 July.
s		2022
t		2014
u		Data at 1 January of the reporting year.
v		Population aged 15 years and over.
w		Estimate.