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

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Table 2 Pacific ACP - countries - formal and informal employment

						formal sector employment (2004)
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Country	Sub-Region	Population	Population 0–14 years	Urban Population at last cencus	Urban Population	Working Age Population	Formal Sector Employment	% of 8	Fresh entrants of the workforce per year	Public Service	Informal Sector
Country	Sub-Region	(2013)	(% of total population 2013)	(%)	(Nos)	(15–64 years old)	Formal Sector Employment	% of 8	Fresh entrants of the workforce per year	% of 8	Informal Sector
Cook Islands	Polynesia	15,200	28.5	72	10,916	7,276	5,900	81	341	22.0	1,376
Niue		1,500	24.7	36	536	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Samoa		187,400	39.0	21	39,096	91,193	57,00	63	5,298	39.0	34,093
Tonga		103,300	37.6	23	23,966	51,842	34,600	67	2,415	22.5	17,224
Tuvalu		10,900	32.8	47	5,121	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	69.5	n.a.
Fed. States of Micronesia	Miconesia	103,000	33.8	22	22,688	61,786	15,137	24	3,008	52.5	46,649
Kiribati		180,800	35.3	44	47,398	54,335	7,900	15	2,537	67.0	46,435
Marshall Islands		54,200	40.2	65	35,314	29,634	10,300	35	1,604	48.0	19,334
Nauru		10,500	38.9	100	10,500	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	47.0	n.a.
Palau		17,800	19.9	77	13,569	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Fiji Islands	Melanesia	859,200	28.2	51	435,973	487,450	120,000	25	18,600	38.0	367,450
Papua New Guinea		7,398,500	39.4	13	961,805	3,320,217	187,320	6	159,618	40.0	3,132,897
Solomon Islands		610,800	39.3	20	120,531	239,362	22,177	9	13,320	18.0	217,185
Vanuatu		264,700	36.9	24	64,692	110,976	16,300	15	6,359	30.5	94,676
Timor Leste		1,066,409	43.2	28	298,595	520,265	36874	7	n.a.	47.2	483,391

Sources: Population (Forum Countries) : SPC Pacific Islands Populations - Estimates the projections of demographic indicators of selected years, Sept. 2013, http://www.spc.int/sdd/ on Timor Leste: http://www.statistics.gov.tl/ Employment Data: World Bank (2006), p. 37, Table two. six, Fresh entrants into the workforce pert year: PIFS 2006, Table four.