Vanuatu
Geography
Area 12,190 sq. km. Twelve larger and 70 smaller islands southwest of the Solomon Islands in the SW Pacific. Formerly New Hebrides.
Capital Vila 31,000 on Efate Island.
Urbanites 20%
Population
2000 190,417
2010 239,668
2025 319,146
People
Ni-Vanuatu 98.6%, Melanesian (102) 182,000, Polynesian (3) 4,000
Caucasian 1% mainly English and French speaking
Other Pacific Islanders 0.4% Wallisian, Fijians, Tongans, I-Kiribati, etc.
Literacy
53%.
Languages
Official languages Bislama (Pidgin English), English, French
All languages 109, but only 36 local languages are spoken by more than 1,000 people
Languages with scriptures
4 Bible
5 NT
29 Portions
15 wip
Religions
Christian
Traditional
Cargo cults
Bahai
Non religious/other
Chinese/Buddhist |
Population %
91.14%
3%
2.7%
2.6%
.50%
.06% |
Country profiles supplied courtesy of Operation World. http://www.gmi.org/ow/
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