LANGUAGE:
I-Kiribati, formerly called Gilbertese, and English (official)
POPULATION:
Total: 74,000 (1992)
Annual growth: 2.0% (1985-90)
Doubling time: 41 yrs.
Urban: 36% (1990) (est. for year 2000: 43%)
Rural: 64%
AGE GROUPS (1985):
16% under 5 yrs.
39% under 15
51% under 20
30% from 20 to 39
13% from 40 to 59
6% 60 yrs. and over
ETHNIC GROUPS
Micronesian: 96% (descendants of Melanesians, Moluccans and Samoans)
Other: 4% (Polynesians and ot/1er Pacific Islanders, Europeans, mixed)
FAMILY
Persons per household: 6.1 (1978)
Marital status, for females 15 yrs.+ (1985)
Single: 29%
Married: 60%
Widowed: 7%
Separated/ divorced: 4%
Female head of household: no data
Fertility rate: 4.1 (1991)
Teenage births: 42% (1985) 1 Teenage fertility rate: nodata
Births out of wedlock: no data
Contraception: no data
SOCIAL INDICATORS:
Life expectancy: 55 yrs. (1991)
Infant mortality: 56/1,000 live births (1991)
Crude birth rate: 22/1,000 pop. (1988)
Crude death rate: 5/1,000 pop. (1988)
HEALTH
Access to health services: 95% (1985)
Births attended by trained health personnel: no data
Maternal mortality rate: 114 (1980-90)
Population per physician: 5,143
Children (under 1 year) irnmunised against DPT: 79% (1990-91)
HOUSING
Electricity: 78% without (1978)
Access to safe water: 53% (urban: 93; rural: 35) (1980-83)
Source of water: (1978)
Well: 65%
Tap: 18%
Rain: 12%
Delivery: 4%
Toilet facilities: (1978)
Water-seal latrine: 19%
Flush: 15%
Reef (pit) latrine: 16%
None: 49%
Construction materials: (1978)
Bush material for traditional houses: 74%
Western-style houses: 26%
Radio: 225/1,000 pop. (1980-90)
EDUCATION
Literacy: 96% (male: 96; female: 96) (1985)
Gross enrollment ratio (1982)
First leve!: 91% (completing in 1980-90: 87%)
Second: no data
Third: no data
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
Econornically active population: The great majority of the population is involved in subsistence economy.
GDP: no data
Per capita GNP: US$746 (1991)
National currency: Australian dollar
Principal resources: Copra, phosphate
