'Avoiding extradition': Vanuatu PM orders cancellation of Lalit Modi's passport / Sushmita's ex Lalit Modi acquires Vanuatu citizenship? / Human Insecurity from Climate Change on Vanuatu and Guam / Indigenous knowledge merges with science to protect people from fish poisoning in Vanuatu / Vanuatu earthquake one month on: aftershocks, a no-go zone and anxiety / Vanuatu holds snap election a month after destructive earthquake / China sends help to quake-hit Vanuatu as it expands Pacific island ties / Rescuers look for survivors as Vanuatu quake death toll hits 14 / Multiple deaths reported after Vanuatu hit by major 7.3 earthquake

Vanuatu

Updated: 90d ago

ShareCopied to clipboard

Vanuatu is a country. The capital city is Port Vila, located in the Melanesia region of Oceania. It has a land area of 12,190 km², a population of 320,409 people and uses the currency Vanuatu vatu. The Prime Minister is Charlot Salwai.

Key facts

currency: Vanuatu vatu
capital city: Port Vila
region: Melanesia
continent: Oceania
land area: 12,190 km²
population: 320,409 people
political leader: Charlot Salwai (Prime Minister)

See more facts

central government debt: 87.07 % of GDP
expense: 34.26 % of GDP
GDP: 1,126,313,359.22 current US$
inflation: 6.68 annual %
self-employed workers: 60.17 % of total employment
tax revenue: 15.88 % of GDP
unemployment: 5.08 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 57.48 % of total employment
democracy score: 0.00
democracy type: Unknown
individuals using the Internet: 45.70 % of population
net migration: 0 people
press freedom: 0.00
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 1.92 %
birth rate: 28.97 per 1,000 people
death rate: 5.31 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 133.15 current US$
health expenditure: 4.37 % of GDP
hospital beds: 1.68 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 70
suicide mortality rate: 18.00 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 1,870.00 km²
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 0.29 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 70.00 % of population
fertility rate: 3.70 births per woman
forest area: 4,423 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 0.00 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 0.67 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 16.20
methane emissions: 0.31 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 0.08 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 158,611 people
male population: 161,798 people
renewable energy consumption: 25.00 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 12,337.57 km²
rural population: 237,180 people
urban land area: 27.94 km²
urban population: 83,229 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 1.79 % of total population

Make this Notebook Trusted to load map: File -> Trust Notebook

Location on a map: -16°0′S, 167°0′E

- Explore more images

Extract data

Download datasets about Vanuatu:

Dataset of companies in Vanuatu:

Dataset of sites in Vanuatu:

Dataset of artists from Vanuatu:

Dataset of athletes from Vanuatu:

Dataset of cities in Vanuatu:

Dataset of competitions in Vanuatu :

Dataset of diseases in Vanuatu :

Dataset of exchanges in Vanuatu:

Dataset of museums in Vanuatu:

Dataset of political parties in Vanuatu:

Dataset of politicians from Vanuatu:

Dataset of shops in Vanuatu :

Dataset of universities in Vanuatu:

Dataset of wildfires in Vanuatu:

Vanuatu is one of the countries in Oceania, countries in Melanesia and 194 countries in our database.

Visualize data

Get charts or maps on Vanuatu:

Distribution of politicians from Vanuatu by birth year

Distribution of diseases by first founded year in Vanuatu

Distribution of athletes from Vanuatu by birth date

Distribution of universities in Vanuatu per foundation year

Evolution of historical urban population in Vanuatu with forecast

Evolution of historical life expectancy at birth in Vanuatu with forecast

Evolution of historical land area in Vanuatu with forecast

Evolution of historical greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6) in Vanuatu with forecast

Map of the distribution of cities in Vanuatu by population

Map of the distribution of universities in Vanuatu by total students

Map of the distribution of wildfires in Vanuatu by mean width

Map of the distribution of museums in Vanuatu by visitors

Share of politicians per gender in Vanuatu

Share of company types in Vanuatu

Share of employee types in companies from Vanuatu

Share of medals won by Vanuatu in the Olympics

Correlation of birth rate and median age by countries yearly in Vanuatu

Correlation of birth rate and life expectancy at birth of countries yearly in Vanuatu

Correlation of life expectancy and the proportion of self-employed workers by countries yearly in Vanuatu

Correlation of birth rate and vulnerable employment of countries yearly in Vanuatu

In literature

There are 24 books written about Vanuatu in the database.

This dashboard is based on data from: SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders.

This content is available under the CC BY 4.0 license.