CAPITALE: Fangafade on the island of Funafuti, pop. 2,810 (1985)
LANGUAGE: English (official)
POPULATION:
Total: 12,000 (1992)
Annual growth: 1.5% (1983)
Doubling time: 47 yrs.
Urban: 21% (1984)
Rural: 79%
AGE GROUPS: (1987)
12% under 5 yrs.
31% under 15
41% under 20
33% from 20 to 39
16% from 40 to 59
8% 60 yrs. and over
ETHNIC GROUPS
Polynesian: 97%
Other (Pacific, non-Pacific): 3%
%
FAMILY
Persons per household: 6.4 (1979)
Marital status, for females 15 yrs.+ (1979)
Single: 42%
Married: 47%
Widowed: 7%
Divorced: 3%
Female head of household: no data
Fertility rate: 2.8 (1982)
Teenage births: 6% (1986) 1 Teenage fertility rate: no data
Births out of wedlock: 15% (1986)
Contraception: no data
HOUSING
Electricity: 61% without (1979)
Access to safe water: 100% (1984)
Source of water: (1979)
House tank (rain): 85%
Public cistern: 15%
Toilet facilities: (1979)
Flush: 13%
Latrine: 58%
None: 29%
Construction materials: (1979)
Traditional open side: 58%
Palagi (foreign-style) / local mix: 19%
Palagi (foreign-style) 1 glass windows: 22%
Television: Believed to have no television service of its own.
Radio: 278 / 1,000 pop. (1989)
SOCIAL INDICATORS
Life expectancy: 59 yrs. (male: 57; female: 60) (1983 )
Infant mortality: 34/1,000 live births (1991)
Crude birth rate: 26/1,000 pop. (1983)
Crude death rate: 7/ 1,000 pop. (1983)
Health
Literacy: 99% (1985-1990)
Gross enrollment ratio (1984)
First level: 100%
Second: no data
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
Economically active population: no data
GDP: no data
Per capita GNP: US$650 (1987)
National currency: Australian dollar
Principal resources: Coconuts, fish
COMMUNICATION
Radio:
Transmitters: ll5 (1979)
Receivers: 340,000-43/1,000 pop. (1983)
Television:
Transmitters: no data
Receivers: 203,000- 26/1,000 pop. (1983)
