Demography of Nauru

The population of Nauru is only of: 13287 inhabitants (2006) is the 190e country in term of classification ; UNO ; FAO }} Nauru only counts: 13287 inhabitants in 2006 what makes of them the country less populated in the world, right in front of Tuvalu and the the Vatican, the population, which lived before on all the island, concentrated on the littoral. With the urbanization, a Agglomération continues then was constituted little by little, in particular on the South-western coast. A small fraction still lives nevertheless on the central plate, around the Lagune Buada. Locally, in edge of littoral, the Population density reaches from now on 3000 hab /km2, the population of the island saw her Standard of living increasing considerably. This change of lifestyle appears harmful today on the Public health by decreasing the Life expectancy.

Thus the bad dietary habits (drink industrialists and food importation) followed by a fall of the quantities available of food and of an inactivity (high rate of unemployment, one of the strongest rates in the world), of Obesity), Hyperuricémie. Towards 1 200 av. J. - C., a new wave of immigration arrived on the island coming from the littoral Chinese via the Filipino .

The presence of population Allochtone on Nauru is explained by its colonial past. At the time of the Colonization of the island in 1888, German working in the administration and the Christian missions settle on the island. British join them when the extraction of the Phosphate in 1906 begins. The latter then introduce Chinese Labor , gilbertine and carolinienne.

Religions

The Religion the most practiced in Nauru is the Christianisme: approximately two thirds of the Nauruans are Protestant, the other third being catholic. This religion was introduced as from 1888. Some Nauruans are Buddhist or taoists. Some Églises (Church of Jesus-Christ of the Saints of the Last Pilot Days and of Jéhovah) still practice conversions near foreign workers of the Nauru Phosphate Corporation; UNICEF; National Assessment Carryforward. After the Independence in 1968, the number of its grants increased by a score each year until in 1999. 95% of unemployment result from the stop of the extraction of the Phosphate, because of the exhaustion of the reserves. Nauru represents the prototype of a country completely dependant on an mono-activity, in fact a purely extractive industry, not having given place to the development of diversified related activities, and of which brutal decrease, though foreseeable, involved a rupture of the majority of balances

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