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General Information

Region		Micronesia
Population (000, 2024)		12^a
Pop. density (per km2, 2024)		597.3^a
Capital city		Yaren
Capital city pop. (000, 2024)		11.3^c,d
UN membership date		14 September 1999
Surface area (km2)		21^b
Sex ratio (m per 100 f)		103.7^a
National currency		Australian Dollar (AUD)
Exchange rate (per US$)		1.5^e

Economic indicators

	2015	2020	2024
GDP: Gross domestic product (million current US$)	104	136	148^b
GDP growth rate (annual %, const. 2015 prices)	36.5	1	1.5^b
GDP per capita (current US$)	9 329.7	11 015.1	11 679.2^b
Economy: Agriculture^f (% of Gross Value Added)	2.4	2.4	2.4^b
Economy: Industry^f (% of Gross Value Added)	40.7	36.4	36.5^b
Economy: Services and other activity^f (% of GVA)	56.9	61.2	61.1^b
Unemployment (% of labour force)	23^g,h	...	...
Labour force participation rate (female/male pop. %)	49.3 / 78.9^h	... / ...	... / ...
CPI: Consumer Price Index (2010=100)	100ⁱ	...	...
Agricultural production index (2014-2016=100)	100	100	100^b
Balance of payments, current account (million US$)	-17	8^d	...

Social indicators

	2015	2020	2024
Population growth rate (average annual %)	1.9	0.3	0.7^a
Urban population (% of total population)	100	100^j	...
Urban population growth rate (average annual %)	2.3^k	...	...
Fertility rate, total (live births per woman)	4.1	3.5	3.3^a
Life expectancy at birth (females/males, years)	64.2 / 58.2	64.0 / 59.3	64.2 / 60.4^a
Population age distribution^l (0-14/60+ years old, %)	38.2 / 3.5	38.0 / 4.3	37.8 / 5.1^a
International migrant stock (000/% of total pop.)	1.8 / 17.7^m,n	2.2 / 20.3^m,n	... / ...
Refugees and others of concern to UNHCR (000)	0.8	1.2	0^e
Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)	33	28.3	25.3^a
Health: Current expenditure^o,p,q (% of GDP)	14	12.7	13.1^r
Health: Physicians (per 1 000 pop.)	1.2	...	...
Education: Government expenditure (% of GDP)	6.4	6.8	9.5^b
Education: Primary gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	96.7 / 99.7	81.3 / 73.1	97.0 / 93.0^b
Education: Lowr. sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	77.6 / 78.3^s	84.2 / 74.5	100.6 / 91.2^b
Education: Upr. Sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	91.0 / 88.7^s	87.3 / 101.4^j	... / ...
Seats held by women in national parliaments (%)	5.3	10.5^t	10.5^t

Environment and infrastructure indicators

	2015	2020	2024
Individuals using the Internet (per 100 inhabitants)	54^u,h	81.7^v	82.7^v,b
Threatened species (number)	80	86	96^e
Forested area (% of land area)	0^v	0^v	0^r
CO2 emission estimates^v (million tons/tons per capita)	0.1 / 5.0	0.1 / 4.4	0.1 / 4.6^r
Energy production, primary (Petajoules)	0	0	0^v,r
Energy supply per capita^v (Gigajoules)	68	61	63^r
Important sites for terrestrial biodiversity protected (%)	0	0	0^e
Net Official Development Assist. received (% of GNI)	26.48	15.96	15.28^r

Footnotes

a		Projected estimate (medium fertility variant).
b		2022
c		Refers to Nauru.
d		2018
e		2023
f		At producers' prices.
g		Break in the time series.
h		2011
i		2012
j		2019
k		Data refers to a 5-year period preceding the reference year.
l		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division.
m		Refers to foreign citizens.
n		Including refugees.
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		Indicators are sensitive to external funds flowing in to the country.
r		2021
s		2014
t		Data are as at 1 January of reporting year.
u		Population aged 15 years and over.
v		Estimate.