Melanesia

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Melanesia is a region. It is located in Oceania. It comprises 4 countries for a land area of 511,310 km² and a population of 12,434,194 people.

Key facts

continent: Oceania
number of countries: 4
land area: 511,310 km²
population: 12,434,194 people

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central government debt: 46.82 % of GDP
expense: 28.83 % of GDP
GDP: 38,930,922,244.90 current US$
self-employed workers: 58.56 % of total employment
tax revenue: 16.80 % of GDP
unemployment: 3.38 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 56.45 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 8,000 people
democracy score: 11.88
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 88,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 47.90 % of population
military expenditure: 0.81 % of GDP
net migration: -2,440 people
press freedom: 6.05
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 5.88 %
birth rate: 25.63 per 1,000 people
death rate: 6.22 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 137.73 current US$
health expenditure: 4.21 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.49 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 1.28 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 68.75
suicide mortality rate: 11.18 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 20,596.00 km²
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 8.87 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 64.25 % of population
fertility rate: 3.31 births per woman
forest area: 399,058 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 0.00 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 14.43 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 18.65
methane emissions: 4.56 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 0.87 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 6,056,690 people
male population: 6,377,504 people
renewable energy consumption: 39.52 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 521,758.15 km²
rural population: 10,174,305 people
urban land area: 598.43 km²
urban population: 2,259,889 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 2.96 % of total population

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Melanesia is one of the regions in Oceania and 22 regions in our database.

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Evolution of historical access to electricity in Melanesia

Evolution of historical land area in Melanesia

Evolution of historical fertility rate in Melanesia

Evolution of historical internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence in Melanesia

Map of the density of countries in Melanesia

Map of the distribution of cities in Melanesia by population

Correlation of agricultural land and methane emissions of countries yearly in Melanesia

Correlation of access to electricity and life expectancy at birth by countries yearly in Melanesia

Correlation of access to electricity and renewable energy consumption by countries yearly in Melanesia

Correlation of armed forces personnel and greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6) of countries yearly in Melanesia

In literature

There are 27 books written about Melanesia in the database.

This dashboard is based on data from: World Bank.

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