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Palau People 2014

SOURCE: 2014 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Palau People 2014
SOURCE: 2014 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on January 28, 2014

Nationality:
noun: Palauan(s)
adjective: Palauan

Ethnic groups:
Palauan (Micronesian with Malayan and Melanesian admixtures) 69.9%, Filipino 15.3%, Chinese 4.9%, other Asian 2.4%, white 1.9%, Carolinian 1.4%, other Micronesian 1.1%, other or unspecified 3.2% (2000 census)

Languages:
Palauan (official on most islands) 64.7%, Filipino 13.5%, English (official) 9.4%, Chinese 5.7%, Carolinian 1.5%, Japanese 1.5%, other Asian 2.3%, other languages 1.5% (2000 census)
note: Sonsoral (Sonsoralese and English are official), Tobi (Tobi and English are official), and Angaur (Angaur, Japanese, and English are official)

Religions:
Roman Catholic 41.6%, Protestant 23.3%, Modekngei 8.8% (indigenous to Palau), Seventh-Day Adventist 5.3%, Jehovah's Witnesses 0.9%, Mormon 0.6%, other 3.1%, unspecified or none 16.4% (2000 census)

Population:
21,108 (July 2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 220
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Age structure:
0-14 years: 20.7% (male 2,250/female 2,110)
[see also: Age structure 0-14 years country ranks ]
15-24 years: 17.6% (male 1,849/female 1,875)
25-54 years: 46.6% (male 5,981/female 3,854)
55-64 years: 8.3% (male 615/female 1,129)
65 years and over: 6.8% (male 407/female 1,038) (2013 est.)

Median age:
total: 32.9 years
[see also: Median age - total country ranks ]
male: 32.5 years
female: 33.9 years (2013 est.)

Population growth rate:
0.37% (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 159
[see also: Population growth rate country ranks ]

Birth rate:
10.9 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 176
[see also: Birth rate country ranks ]

Death rate:
7.86 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 109
[see also: Death rate country ranks ]

Net migration rate:
0.66 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 63
[see also: Net migration rate country ranks ]

Urbanization:
urban population: 83% of total population (2010)
[see also: Urbanization - urban population country ranks ]
rate of urbanization: 1.4% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
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0-14 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 0.98 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.55 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.55 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.4 male(s)/female
total population: 1.12 male(s)/female (2013 est.)

Infant mortality rate:
total: 11.77 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 132
male: 13.35 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 10.1 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 72.33 years
country comparison to the world: 133
male: 69.17 years
female: 75.68 years (2013 est.)

Total fertility rate:
1.72 children born/woman (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 168
[see also: Total fertility rate country ranks ]

Contraceptive prevalence rate:
32.8%
note: percent of women aged 15-44 (2003)
[see also: Contraceptive prevalence rate country ranks ]

Health expenditures:
10.6% of GDP (2011)
country comparison to the world: 18
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Physicians density:
1.38 physicians/1,000 population (2010)
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Hospital bed density:
4.8 beds/1,000 population (2010)
[see also: Hospital bed density country ranks ]

Drinking water source:
improved:

urban: 97% of population
rural: 86% of population
total: 95.3% of population
unimproved:
urban: 3% of population
rural: 14% of population
total: 4.7% of population (2011 est.)

Sanitation facility access:
improved:

urban: 100% of population
rural: 100% of population
total: 100% of population
unimproved:
urban: 0% of population
rural: 0% of population
total: 0% of population (2011 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
NA
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HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
NA
[see also: HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS country ranks ]

HIV/AIDS - deaths:
NA
[see also: HIV/AIDS - deaths country ranks ]

Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
48.9% (2008)
country comparison to the world: 7
[see also: Obesity - adult prevalence rate country ranks ]

Education expenditures:
10.3% of GDP (2002)
country comparison to the world: 5
[see also: Education expenditures - percent of GDP country ranks ]

Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 92%
male: 93%
female: 90% (1980 est.)

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
total: 15 years
male: 14 years
female: 15 years (2001)


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Palau on this page is re-published from the 2014 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Palau People 2014 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Palau People 2014 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order






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