Society

How The Pacific Nations Are Doing

Selected Social Indicators from the World Bank

Nhation Per capita Annual Life Infant Family Percent GNP in

Pop.

Expect-

Mortality

Planning

of US $ Growth ancy Rate per Utiliza- Children at 1000 tion

Reaching

Birth Rate Grade 6

Fiji

723 2.0% 67 35 38%* 86% Kiribati 480 1.9 52 68 19 96

Png

730 2.1 53 91 4 n.a.

Solomon Is. 420 3.5 58 39 n.a. 76

Tonga

720 0.9 64 60* 46 138** Vanuatu n.a. 2.5 61 46 n.a. 55* W. Samoa 166 0.7 65 51 18 94 industrial nations $14,580 0.8 76 11*** 68*** 100*** * 1975 date, rest of statistics are most recent estimates available in 1988. ** this is a statistical artifact related to the way the World Bank’s estimating system meshes (or does not mesh) with Tonga’s educational statistics. *** US data •