Marshall Islands 
Facts
Population: 61,815 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 38.3% (male 12,061/female 11,622)
15-64 years: 58.9% (male 18,634/female 17,775)
65 years and over: 2.8% (male 832/female 891) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 2.207% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 32.37 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 4.66 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -5.65 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.038 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.048 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.934 male(s)/female
total population: 1.041 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 27.3 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 30.62 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 23.82 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 70.61 years
male: 68.61 years
female: 72.71 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 3.76 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: NA.
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: NA.
HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA.
Nationality: noun: Marshallese (singular and plural)
adjective: Marshallese.
Ethnic groups: Micronesian.
Religions: Protestant 54.8%, Assembly of God 25.8%, Roman Catholic 8.4%, Bukot nan Jesus 2.8%, Mormon 2.1%, other Christian 3.6%, other 1%, none 1.5% (1999 census).
Languages: Marshallese (official) 98.2%, other languages 1.8% (1999 census)
note: English (official), widely spoken as a second language.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 93.7%
male: 93.6%
female: 93.7% (1999).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $115 million (2001 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 3.5% (2005 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $2,900 (2005 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 31.7%
industry: 14.9%
services: 53.4% (2004 est.).
Labor force: 14,680 (2000).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 21.4%
industry: 20.9%
services: 57.7%.
Population below poverty line: NA%.
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%.
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3% (2005 est.).
Unemployment rate: 30.9% (2000 est.).
Budget: revenues: $42 million
expenditures: $40 million; including capital expenditures of $NA (1999).
Agriculture - products: coconuts, tomatoes, melons, taro, breadfruit, fruits; pigs, chickens.
Industries: copra, tuna processing, tourism, craft items from seashells, wood, and pearls.
Industrial production growth rate: NA%.
Exports: $9.1 million f.o.b. (2000).
Exports - commodities: copra cake, coconut oil, handicrafts, fish.
Exports - partners: US, Japan, Australia, China (2004).
Imports: $54.7 million f.o.b. (2000).
Imports - commodities: foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, fuels, beverages and tobacco.
Imports - partners: US, Japan, Australia, NZ, Singapore, Fiji, China, Philippines (2004).
Debt - external: $86.5 million (FY99/00 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $51.1 million more than $1 billion from the US, 1986-2002 (2004).
Currency (code): US dollar (USD).
Exchange rates: the US dollar is used.
Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Marshall Islands in the News
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