Palau

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Facts

Population:  19,092 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  26.88% (male 2,641; female 2,491) 15-64 years:  68.46% (male 7,128; female 5,943) 65 years and over:  4.66% (male 420; female 469) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  1.69% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  19.64 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  7.23 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  4.45 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.06 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  1.2 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.9 male(s)/female total population:  1.14 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  16.67 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  68.89 years male:  65.77 years female:  72.19 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  2.47 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  NA%
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  NA
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  NA
Nationality:  noun:  Palauan(s) adjective:  Palauan
Ethnic groups:  Palauan (Micronesian with Malayan and Melanesian admixtures) 70%, Asian (mainly Filipinos, followed by Chinese, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese) 28%, white 2% (2000 est.)
Religions:  Christian (Catholics, Seventh-Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Assembly of God, the Liebenzell Mission, and Latter-Day Saints), Modekngei religion (one-third of the population observes this religion which is indigenous to Palau)
Languages:  English and Palauan official in all states except Sonsoral (Sonsorolese and English are official), Tobi (Tobi and English are official), and Angaur (Angaur, Japanese, and English are official)
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  92% male:  93% female:  90% (1980 est.)
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $129 million (1998 est.) note:  GDP numbers reflect US spending
GDP - real growth rate:  -1.4% (1998 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $7,100 (1998 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  NA% industry:  NA% services:  NA%
Population below poverty line:  NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  NA% highest 10%:  NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  NA%
Labor force:  8,300 (1999)
Labor force - by occupation:  agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%
Unemployment rate:  2.3% (2000 est.)
Budget:  revenues:  $57.7 million expenditures:  $80.8 million, including capital expenditures of $17.1 million (FY98/99 est.)
Industries:  tourism, craft items (from shell, wood, pearls), construction, garment making
Industrial production growth rate:  NA%
Agriculture - products:  coconuts, copra, cassava (tapioca), sweet potatoes
Exports:  $14.3 million (f.o.b., 1996)
Exports - commodities:  trochus (type of shellfish), tuna, copra, handicrafts
Exports - partners:  US, Japan
Imports:  $126 million (f.o.b., FY99/00)
Imports - commodities:  machinery and equipment, fuels, metals; foodstuffs
Imports - partners:  US
Debt - external:  $0 (FY99/00)
Economic aid - recipient:  $155.8 million (1995); note - the Compact of Free Association with the US, entered into after the end of the UN trusteeship on 1 October 1994, will provide Palau with up to $700 million in US aid over 15 years in return for furnishing military facilities
Currency:  US dollar (USD)
Currency code:  USD
Exchange rates:  the US dollar is used
Fiscal year:  1 October - 30 September

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.