Envisioning South-South relations in the fields of environmental change and migration in the Pacific Islands - past, present and futures

Weber, Eberhard

doi:10.1186/s40728-014-0009-z

Bandung: Journal of the Global South

Table 1 Population, area and island topography of Pacific Islands countries and territories

From: Envisioning South-South relations in the fields of environmental change and migration in the Pacific Islands - past, present and futures

Country	Sub-Region	Population	Population	Land Area	Exclusive Economic	Population Density	Atolls/Coral	Raised Islands	Volcanic Islands	Total
Country	Sub-Region	(2013)	(around 1960)	(km ² ) ¹	Zone (km ² ) ¹	(per/km ² )	Islands	Raised Islands	Volcanic Islands	Total
Cook Islands	Polynesia	15,200	18,378^f	240	1,960,135	63	7	0	8	15
Niue		1,500	4,864^f	259	316,629	6	0	1	0	1
Samoa		187,400	114,427^f	2,934	131,812	64	0	0	2 + 8 islets	2
Tonga		103,300	56,383^a	688	664,853	150	a few	>100	a few	~170
Tuvalu		10,900	5,444^h	26	751,797	419	9	0	0	9
Fed. States of Micronesia	Miconesia	103,000	39,284^c	700	2,992,597	147	~600	0	>10	607
Kiribati		180,800	43,336^h	726	3,437,345	149	32	1	0	33
Marshall Islands		54,200	13,928^c	181	1,992,232	299	34	0	0	34
Nauru		10,500	4,613^f	21	308,502	500	0	1	0	1
Palau		17,800	9,344^c	487	604,289	37	<300	>10	>5	340
Fiji Islands	Melanesia	859,200	345,737^a	18,272	1,281,122	47	2	a few	<100	~320
Papua New Guinea		7,398,500	2,184,986ⁱ	462,000	2,396,214	16	a few	a few	>600	>600
Solomon Islands		610,800	124,076^d	28,000	1,597,492	22	a few	0	>900	>990
Vanuatu		264,700	78,088^k	12,190	827,891	22	0		82	82
Timor Leste		1,066,409	n.k.	15,007	77,256	71	0	0	2	2
sub-totaI		10,812,209	n.k.	541,731	16,347,569
Territory
American Samoa	Poly	56,500	20,051^e	199	404,391	284	2	0	5	7
French Polynesia	Poly	261,400	84,551^g	3,660	4,767,242	71	~80	few	~40	130
Tokelau	Poly	1,200	l,870^f	12	319,031	100	3	0	0	3
WaIIis & Futuma	Poly	12,200	8,546^m	143	258,269	85	0	0	2	2
Guam	Micro	174,900	67,044^e	549	221,504	318	0	0	1	1
Northern Mariana Islands	Micro	55,700	8,290^c	457	749,268	121	0	0	15	15
New Caledonia	Mela	259,000	86,519^c	18,600	1,422,543	14	0	0	7	7
sub-total		820,900	n.k.	23,620	8,142,248	n.k	n.k	n.k	n.k	n.k
overaIl		11,633,109	n.k.	565,351	24,489,817	n.k	n.k	n.k	n.k	n.k

^a1956 ^b1957 ^c1958 ^d1959 ^e1960 ^f1961 ^g1962 ^h1963 ⁱ1966 ^k1967 ^l1968 ^m1969.
Source: for Population Data: SPC Population Data 2011 and Time Series from 1900 for Island size and island type: Pacific Islands Yearbook, 1989.
¹Land Area and EEZ for Pacific Island Countries according to http://www.forumsec.org/pages.cfm/about-us/our-partners/member-countries/ EEZ for Pacific Island Territories: http://www.seaaroundus.org/eez/ figures for Timor Leste from hp://dnemofgov.tI.

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