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Naoero
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ANNUAL ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT
Population & economic scale
The most recent non-empty observations returned by the World Bank when this snapshot was collected. Read the year on each card: these are annual statistics, not live measurements.
World Bank reporting entity: Naoero · 3 of 3 indicators available.
Population
12,025
people
observation
Definition, value & source
Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.
Received value: 12025 people. The main card rounds for readability.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), uri: https://unstats.un.org/home/nso_sites/, publisher: National Statistical Offices; Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, Eurostat (ESTAT), uri: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database?node_code=earn_ses_monthly, publisher: Eurostat; Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), United Nations (UN), uri: https://unstats.un.org, publisher: UN Statistics Division
GDP
$176.04 million
current US$
observation
Definition, value & source
Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
Received value: 176040043.932346 current US$. The main card rounds for readability.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
GDP per capita
$14,640
current US$ per person
observation
Definition, value & source
Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
Received value: 14639.5046929186 current US$ per person. The main card rounds for readability.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
GDP and GDP per capita use current US dollars, without an inflation or purchasing-power-parity adjustment. Source years can differ. Missing data is not zero; earlier archive figures below are retained as a separate historical reference.
THE REFERENCE FILE
Naoero at a glance
These are historical reference facts from the 2025 World Factbook archive. Each estimate keeps its own period; an archive edition does not make every figure a measurement from that year.
Population
total: 9,930 (2025 est.) male: 4,874 female: 5,056
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)
$150.581 million (2024 est.) $147.976 million (2023 est.) $147.026 million (2022 est.) note: data in 2021 dollars
GDP (official exchange rate)
$160.351 million (2024 est.) note: data in current dollars at official exchange rate
Real GDP growth rate
1.8% (2024 est.) 0.6% (2023 est.) 3% (2022 est.) note: annual GDP % growth based on constant local currency
Real GDP per capita
$12,600 (2024 est.) $12,500 (2023 est.) $12,500 (2022 est.) note: data in 2021 dollars
Inflation rate (consumer prices)
2.6% (2022 est.) 2.4% (2021 est.) 1.8% (2020 est.) note: annual % change based on consumer prices
Budget
revenues: $199.74 million (2020 est.) expenditures: $157.86 million (2020 est.) note: central government revenues (excluding grants) and expenditures converted to US dollars at average official exchange rate for year indicated
Current account balance
$1.923 million (2023 est.) $2.966 million (2022 est.) $6.597 million (2021 est.) note: balance of payments - net trade and primary/secondary income in current dollars
Exports
$64.931 million (2023 est.) $78.383 million (2022 est.) $54.403 million (2021 est.) note: balance of payments - exports of goods and services in current dollars
Imports
$150.193 million (2023 est.) $165.371 million (2022 est.) $141.185 million (2021 est.) note: balance of payments - imports of goods and services in current dollars
Electricity access
electrification - total population: 100% (2022 est.)
Internet users
percent of population: 82% (2020 est.)
THE HISTORICAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
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Location
Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Capital
name: no official capital; government offices in the Yaren District time difference: UTC+12 (17 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Economic overview
upper-middle-income Pacific island country; phosphate resource exhaustion made island interior uninhabitable; licenses fishing rights; houses Australia s Regional Processing Centre; former tax haven; largely dependent on foreign subsidies
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Natural resources
phosphates, fish
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Agricultural products
coconuts, tropical fruits, pork, eggs, pork offal, pork fat, chicken, papayas, vegetables, cabbages (2023) note: top ten agricultural products based on tonnage
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Industries
phosphate mining, offshore banking, coconut products
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Exports - partners
Thailand 78%, Philippines 11%, NZ 5%, Japan 1%, Canada 1% (2023) note: top five export partners based on percentage share of exports
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Exports - commodities
fish, phosphates (2023) note: top export commodities based on value in dollars over $500,000
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Imports - partners
Australia 50%, Japan 11%, Fiji 9%, Senegal 9%, China 9% (2023) note: top five import partners based on percentage share of imports
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Imports - commodities
ships, titanium ore, refined petroleum, plastic products, other foods (2023) note: top five import commodities based on value in dollars
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Climate
tropical with a monsoonal pattern; rainy season (November to February)
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Terrain
sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Land use
agricultural land: 20% (2023 est.) arable land: 0% (2022 est.) permanent crops: 20% (2023 est.) permanent pasture: 0% (2022 est.) forest: 0% (2022 est.) other: 80% (2023 est.)
2023, 2022 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Natural hazards
periodic droughts
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Languages
Nauruan 93% (official, a distinct Pacific Island language), English 2% (widely understood, spoken, and used for most government and commercial purposes), other 5% (includes Gilbertese 2% and Chinese 2%) (2011 est.) note: data represent main language spoken at home; Nauruan is spoken by 95% of the population, English by 66%, and other languages by 12%
2011 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Religions
Protestant 60.4% (Nauruan Congregational 34.7%, Assemblies of God 11.6%, Pacific Light House 6.3%, Nauru Independent 3.6%, Baptist 1.5, Seventh Day Adventist 1.3%, other Protestant 1.4%), Roman Catholic 33.9%, other 4.2%, none 1.3%, no answer 0.3% (2021 est.)
2021 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Age structure
0-14 years: 29.6% (male 1,493/female 1,433) 15-64 years: 66% (male 3,220/female 3,309) 65 years and over: 4.4% (2024 est.) (male 143/female 294)
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Urbanization
urban population: 100% of total population (2023) rate of urbanization: 0.18% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
2023, 2020 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Life expectancy at birth
total population: 68.6 years (2024 est.) male: 65 years female: 72.3 years
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Literacy
total population: 96.6% (2023 est.) male: 93.4% (2023 est.) female: 99.7% (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Electricity
installed generating capacity: 19,000 kW (2023 est.) consumption: 37.893 million kWh (2023 est.) transmission/distribution losses: 3.922 million kWh (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Electricity generation sources
fossil fuels: 88% of total installed capacity (2023 est.) solar: 12% of total installed capacity (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Petroleum
refined petroleum consumption: 500 bbl/day (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Carbon dioxide emissions
86,000 metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.) from petroleum and other liquids: 86,000 metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Telephones - mobile cellular
total subscriptions: 10,300 (2022 est.) subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 87 (2022 est.)
2022 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Broadband - fixed subscriptions
total: 1,000 (2022 est.) subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 10 (2022 est.)
2022 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Airports
1 (2025)
2025 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Ports
total ports: 1 (2024) large: 0 medium: 0 small: 0 very small: 1 ports with oil terminals: 1 key ports: Nauru
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Remittances
0.6% of GDP (2023 est.) 0.6% of GDP (2022 est.) 0.7% of GDP (2021 est.) note: personal transfers and compensation between resident and non-resident individuals/households/entities
2023, 2022, 2021 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
CURRENCY OBSERVATIONS
Money & exchange rates
The latest verified daily references are separate from the historical country profile. Values are currency units per US$1.
Australian Dollar
AUD per US$1
Published reference snapshot; its original observation date is preserved.
1 AUD = US$0.6964273
1.3851–1.4406 AUD per US$1 across the displayed observations. The vertical scale follows this range.
View dated observations
| Observation date | AUD per US$1 |
|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | 1.4359 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 1.4387 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 1.4406 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.4406 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 1.4404 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 1.4382 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 1.4329 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | 1.4273 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | 1.424 |
| Sep 27, 2026 | 1.4235 |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.4234 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 1.4233 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 1.4198 |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 1.41 |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 1.405 |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 1.4037 |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 1.4049 |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.405 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 1.4052 |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 1.4054 |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 1.4029 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 1.403 |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 1.3986 |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 1.394 |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.3935 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 1.3929 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 1.3876 |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 1.3851 |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 1.3863 |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 1.3877 |
Daily references are not live execution prices. A check time does not change a source observation date.
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- Country reference
- CIA World Factbook · 2025 archive
- Archive retrieved
- Oct 6, 2026 · retrieval date, not an observation period
- Currency associations
- SIX / ISO 4217 currency registry ↗
- Rate observations
- Frankfurter / official reference providers ↗ · each observation is dated separately
- State classification
- UN member states ↗ · UN observer states ↗
- UN membership is shown separately from territory and currency coverage; inclusion is not a position on sovereignty or boundaries.
- CIA World Factbook text preserved by World Factbook Archive. Archive edition 2025; individual estimates retain their own dates. These are historical reference facts, not current observations.
- The United Nations records the name change from Nauru to Naoero effective 26 June 2026. Historical archive text and the imported currency-registry name retain Nauru. Name-change source: https://metadata.un.org/skosmos/thesaurus/en/page/1004349
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Skyhorse lists The CIA World Factbook 2026–2027, published April 7, 2026 (ISBN 9781510786042). That book’s full text has not been incorporated here; its edition title does not redate the imported archive. Archive distribution license.
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