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Demographics of Oceania

February 16, 2024

Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean.[1] Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania vary, with it being defined in various ways, often geopolitically or geographically. In the geopolitical conception used by the United Nations, International Olympic Committee, and many atlases, the Oceanic region includes Australia and the nations of the Pacific from Papua New Guinea east, but not the Malay Archipelago or Indonesian New Guinea.[2][3][4] The term is sometimes used more specifically to denote Australasia as a geographic continent,[5][6] or biogeographically as a synonym for either the Australasian realm (Wallacea and Australasia) or the Oceanian realm (Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia apart either from New Zealand[7] or from mainland New Guinea[8]).

Oceania

Geopolitical Oceania
Area8,525,989 km2 (3,291,903 sq mi)
Population44,491,724 (2021, 6th)
Population density4.19/km2 (10.9/sq mi)
DemonymOceanian
Countries
Associated (2) (list)
Dependencies
External (21) (list)
Internal (4) (list)
Languages
29
Time zonesUTC+14 (Kiribati) to UTC-11 (American Samoa and Niue) (West to East)
Largest cities

Although Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands belong to the Commonwealth of Australia and are inhabited, they are nearer Indonesia than the Australian mainland, and are commonly associated with Asia instead of Oceania.

Demographics by territory edit

The demographic table below shows all inhabited states and territories of Oceania. The information in this chart comes from the CIA World Factbook[9] or the United States Department of State[10][m], unless noted otherwise or not available (NA); where sources differ, references are included.

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Pos Country Population[11][12] (mid-2021 estimate) Area (km2) Population density (/km2) Urban population Life expectancy Literacy Rate Official language(s) Top religion(s) Ethnic groups
1   Australia 25,921,089 7,682,300 2.768 89% 81.63 99% English 78.5% [13] Christian 64.6%, none 18.7% European 57.2%, Oceanian 33.8% (including Australian Aborigines 2.9%), Asian, 17.4%.[14]
2   Papua New Guinea 9,949,437 462,840 12.835 12% 65.75 57.3% Tok Pisin 75%,[15] English 1–2%, Hiri Motu <2%[a] Christian 96% New Guinea Papuan 84%, New Guinea Melanesian 15%, other 1%[16]
3   New Zealand 5,129,727 270,534 15.574 87% 80.36 99% English 91.2%, Māori 3.9% Christian 55.6%, None 34.7% European 74.0%, Asian 12%, Māori 15%, Pacific Islander 7%, other 1%[17]
–   Hawaii (United States) 1,419,561 28,311 82.647 92% 80.37 99% English 73.44%, Hawaiian 1.68% Christian 63%, None 26%, Buddhist 8%, Other 3% Asian 37.2%, Multiracial 25.3%, White 22.9%, Pacific Islander 10.8%, Black 1.6%, Native American 0.3%[18]
4   Fiji 924,610 18,274 51.697 18% 70.73 93.7% English, Fijian, Hindi Christian 64.5%, Hindu 27.9%, Muslim 6.3% Fijian 57.3%, Indo-Fijians 37.6%, Rotuman 1.2%, other 3.9%
5   Solomon Islands 707,851 28,896 20.612 52% 73.69 76.6%[19] English 1–2%[b] Christian 95% Melanesian 94.5%, Polynesian 3%, Micronesian 1.2%, other 1.3%
–   French Polynesia (France) 304,032 4,167 68.882 52% 76.71 98% French 61.1%, Polynesian 31.4% Protestant 54%, Roman Catholic 30%, other 10%, no religion 6% Polynesian 78%, Chinese 12%, local French 6%, metropolitan French 4%
–   New Caledonia (France) 287,800 18,575 12.244 65% 74.98 96.8% French Roman Catholic 60%, Protestant 30%, other 10% Melanesian 44.1%, European 34.1%, Wallisian & Futunian 9%, Tahitian 2.6%, Indonesian 2.5%, Vietnamese 1.4%, Ni-Vanuatu 1.1%, other 5.2%
6   Vanuatu 319,137 12,189 18.176 25% 64.33 74% English 23.1%, French 1.9% Christian 82%, indigenous beliefs 5.6%, other 10.9%, none 1% Ni-Vanuatu 98.5%, other 1.5%
7   Samoa 218,764 2,831 67.821 23% 72.13 99.7% Samoan Christian 98.9% Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7%, Europeans 0.4%
–   Guam (United States) 170,534 1,478 122.371 93% 78.18 99% English 38.3%, Chamorro 22.2%[20] Roman Catholic 85% Chamorro 37.1%, Filipino 26.3%, other Pacific islander 11.3%, white 6.9%, other 8.6%, mixed 9.8%
8   Tonga 106,017 747 164.096 25% 71.03 98.9% Tongan, English Christian Tongan 98%
9   Federated States of Micronesia 113,131 702 152.641 22% 71.23 89% English Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 47%, others 3% Chuukese 48.8%, Pohnpeian 24.2%, Kosraean 6.2%, Yapese 5.2%, Yap outer islands 4.5%, Asian 1.8%, Polynesian 1.5%, other 7.8%
10   Kiribati 128,874 811 122.666 44% 64.03 92% English, Gilbertese (de facto) Roman Catholic 55%, Protestant 36% Micronesian 98.8%
–   American Samoa (United States) 45,035 199 333.829 92% 73.97 97% English, Samoan[c][21] Christian Congregationalist 50%, Roman Catholic 20%, Protestant and other 30% native Pacific islander 91.6%, Asian 2.8%, white 1.1%, mixed 4.2%, other 0.3%
11   Marshall Islands 42,050 181 363.862 71% 71.48 93.7% Marshallese 98.2%, English Protestant 54.8%, other Christian 40.6% Marshallese 92.1%, mixed Marshallese 5.9%, other 2%
–   Northern Mariana Islands (United States) 49,481 464 104.131 91% 76.9 97% English[22] Christian Filipino 35.3%, Chamorro 23.9%, Multiracial 12.7%, Chinese 6.8%, Carolinian 4.6%, Korean 4.2%, 2.3% Chuukese, 2.2% Palauan, 2.1% White, 5.9% other
12   Palau 18,024 459 45.488 81% 71.51 92% Paluan 64.7%[d], English Roman Catholic 41.6%, Protestant 23.3% Palauan 69.9%, Filipino 15.3%, Chinese 4.9%, other Asian 2.4%, white 1.9%, Carolinian 1.4%, other Micronesian 1.1%, other 3.2%
–   Wallis and Futuna (France) 11,627 142 108.049 0% 78.83 50%[e] Wallisian 58.9%, Futunian 30.1%, French 10.8% Roman Catholic 99% Polynesian
–   Cook Islands (New Zealand) 17,003 236 48.678 74% 74.47 95% Māori, English Cook Islands Christian Church 55.9%, other Christian 30.5% Cook Island Māori 87.7%, part Cook Island Māori 5.8%, other 6.5%
13   Tuvalu 11,204 26 401.615 49% 64.39 93%[23] Tuvalu, English Church of Tuvalu (Congregationalist) 97% Polynesian 96%, Micronesian 4%
14   Nauru 12,511 21 441.286 100% 64.99 99%[24] Nauruan[f] Nauru Congregational Church 35.4%, Roman Catholic 33.2%, Nauru Independent Church (Protestant)[25] 10.4% Nauruan 58%, other Pacific Islander 26%, Chinese 8%, European 8%
–   Norfolk Island (Australia) 2,155 36 59.861 NA NA NA[g] English, Norfuk[h] Anglican 31.8%, other Christian 30,9%, none 19.9% European, Tahitian, Australian, New Zealander, Polynesian
–   Tokelau (New Zealand) 1,849 12 116.667 0% 69[26] NA Tokelauan, English Congregational Christian Church 70%, Roman Catholic 28%[i] Polynesian
–   Niue (New Zealand) 1,937 260 5.208 39% 69.5[27] NA[j] Niuean, English Ekalesia Niue (Protestant) 61.1%, other Christian 11%, Latter Day Saints 8.8% Niuean 78.2%, Pacific islander 10.2%, European 4.5%, mixed 3.9%, Asian 0.2%, unspecified 3%
–   Pitcairn Islands (United Kingdom) 48 47 1.021 NA NA NA[k] English, Pitkern Seventh-day Adventist 100% European, Tahitian[l]
– Total 44,491,724 8,506,427 4.073 71% 77.87 91% 73.3%[28]
– Total minus mainland Australia 18,570,635 824,127 16.242 43% 71.89 78%

See also edit

Notes edit

^ a: Papua New Guinea has over 860 non-official languages, comprising approximately ten percent of all languages on Earth.[29]

^ b: Melanesian pidgin is lingua franca in much of the country, but English remains the official language.[30]

^ c: Samoan and English were declared the official languages of American Samoa in June, 2010, via a constitutional amendment to the 1967 Revised Constitution of American Samoa.[21]

^ d: Palaun is the official language in all islands except Sonsoral (Sonsoralese and English are official), Tobi (Tobi and English are official), and Angaur (Angaur, Japanese, and English are official).

^ e: Based on a 1969 estimate.

^ f: English, while not an official language, is widely understood, spoken, and used for most government and commercial purposes.[31]

^ g: Norfuk was made the second official language of Norfolk Island in 2005.[32]

^ h: While no valid literacy data is available, Norfolk Island is assumed to have an adult literacy rate roughly at a par with Australia's literacy rate of 99%.[33]

^ i: On Atafu, all Congregational Christian Church of Samoa; on Nukunonu, all Roman Catholic; on Fakaofo, both denominations, with the Congregational Christian Church predominant.

^ j: While no valid literacy data is available, Niue is assumed to have an adult literacy rate of almost 100%.[34]

^ k: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not hold any statistical information on the literacy rate of the Pitcairn population.[35]

^ l: The residents of the Pitcairn Islands are descendants of HMS Bounty mutineers[36] and their Tahitian wives.

^ m: Much of the information on these two websites is taken from the censuses of other countries, and are not based on independent US government research. The remaining figures are based on estimates, and have been used only where census information from the nation in question is incomplete, unclear, or nonexistent.

References edit

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Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean 1 Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania vary with it being defined in various ways often geopolitically or geographically In the geopolitical conception used by the United Nations International Olympic Committee and many atlases the Oceanic region includes Australia and the nations of the Pacific from Papua New Guinea east but not the Malay Archipelago or Indonesian New Guinea 2 3 4 The term is sometimes used more specifically to denote Australasia as a geographic continent 5 6 or biogeographically as a synonym for either the Australasian realm Wallacea and Australasia or the Oceanian realm Melanesia Polynesia and Micronesia apart either from New Zealand 7 or from mainland New Guinea 8 OceaniaGeopolitical OceaniaArea8 525 989 km2 3 291 903 sq mi Population44 491 724 2021 6th Population density4 19 km2 10 9 sq mi DemonymOceanianCountries14 list of countries Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Associated 2 list Cook Islands NiueDependenciesExternal 21 list American SamoaAshmore and Cartier IslandsBaker IslandClipperton IslandChristmas IslandCocos Keeling IslandsCoral Sea IslandsFrench PolynesiaGuamHowland IslandJarvis IslandJohnston AtollKingman ReefMidway AtollNew CaledoniaNorfolk IslandNorthern Mariana IslandsPitcairn IslandsTokelauWake IslandWallis and Futuna Internal 4 list Easter IslandHawaii United StatesJuan Fernandez IslandsPalmyra AtollLanguages29 official and unofficial BislamaCarolinianChamorroCook Islands MaoriCocos Malay unofficial EnglishFijianFrenchFutunan unofficial GilberteseHawaiianHindiHiri MotuIndonesianMaoriMarshalleseNauruanNiueanPalauanPitkern unofficial Rapa Nui unofficial Rotuman unofficial SamoanSpanishTahitian unofficial TokelauanTonganTok PisinTuvaluanWallisian unofficial Time zonesUTC 14 Kiribati to UTC 11 American Samoa and Niue West to East Largest citiesList of cities in Oceania Sydney AustraliaMelbourne AustraliaBrisbane AustraliaPerth AustraliaAuckland New ZealandAdelaide AustraliaWellington New ZealandHonolulu Hawaii United StatesCanberra AustraliaChristchurch New ZealandJayapura IndonesiaPort Moresby Papua New GuineaNoumea New CaledoniaGold Coast AustraliaAlthough Christmas Island and the Cocos Keeling Islands belong to the Commonwealth of Australia and are inhabited they are nearer Indonesia than the Australian mainland and are commonly associated with Asia instead of Oceania Contents 1 Demographics by territory 2 See also 3 Notes 4 ReferencesDemographics by territory editThe demographic table below shows all inhabited states and territories of Oceania The information in this chart comes from the CIA World Factbook 9 or the United States Department of State 10 m unless noted otherwise or not available NA where sources differ references are included nbsp Australia NewZealand Chatham Hawaii Wake Federated Statesof Micronesia Palau Papua NewGuinea EasterIsland FrenchPolynesia CookIslands NewCaledonia Fiji Tuvalu Kiribati Phoenix Line SolomonIslands Tokelau MarshallIslands Nauru Vanuatu Tonga Pitcairn Guam Norfolk NorthernMarianas Samoa AS WF Niue Cocos Christmas RyukyuIslands Izu Bonin Volcano Okinotorishima Minamitorishima Midway Johnston Clipperton Socorro Howland Baker Kingman Palmyra Jarvis Coral Sea LordHowe Kermadec Bounties Three Kings Antipodes Aucklands Solander Snares Campbell Ashmore amp Cartier Macquarie Indonesia Philippines Sarawak BN Sabah Maluku Papua EastTimor Paracels Spratlys This template viewtalkedit Pos Country Population 11 12 mid 2021 estimate Area km2 Population density km2 Urban population Life expectancy Literacy Rate Official language s Top religion s Ethnic groups1 nbsp Australia 25 921 089 7 682 300 2 768 89 81 63 99 English 78 5 13 Christian 64 6 none 18 7 European 57 2 Oceanian 33 8 including Australian Aborigines 2 9 Asian 17 4 14 2 nbsp Papua New Guinea 9 949 437 462 840 12 835 12 65 75 57 3 Tok Pisin 75 15 English 1 2 Hiri Motu lt 2 a Christian 96 New Guinea Papuan 84 New Guinea Melanesian 15 other 1 16 3 nbsp New Zealand 5 129 727 270 534 15 574 87 80 36 99 English 91 2 Maori 3 9 Christian 55 6 None 34 7 European 74 0 Asian 12 Maori 15 Pacific Islander 7 other 1 17 nbsp Hawaii United States 1 419 561 28 311 82 647 92 80 37 99 English 73 44 Hawaiian 1 68 Christian 63 None 26 Buddhist 8 Other 3 Asian 37 2 Multiracial 25 3 White 22 9 Pacific Islander 10 8 Black 1 6 Native American 0 3 18 4 nbsp Fiji 924 610 18 274 51 697 18 70 73 93 7 English Fijian Hindi Christian 64 5 Hindu 27 9 Muslim 6 3 Fijian 57 3 Indo Fijians 37 6 Rotuman 1 2 other 3 9 5 nbsp Solomon Islands 707 851 28 896 20 612 52 73 69 76 6 19 English 1 2 b Christian 95 Melanesian 94 5 Polynesian 3 Micronesian 1 2 other 1 3 nbsp French Polynesia France 304 032 4 167 68 882 52 76 71 98 French 61 1 Polynesian 31 4 Protestant 54 Roman Catholic 30 other 10 no religion 6 Polynesian 78 Chinese 12 local French 6 metropolitan French 4 nbsp New Caledonia France 287 800 18 575 12 244 65 74 98 96 8 French Roman Catholic 60 Protestant 30 other 10 Melanesian 44 1 European 34 1 Wallisian amp Futunian 9 Tahitian 2 6 Indonesian 2 5 Vietnamese 1 4 Ni Vanuatu 1 1 other 5 2 6 nbsp Vanuatu 319 137 12 189 18 176 25 64 33 74 English 23 1 French 1 9 Christian 82 indigenous beliefs 5 6 other 10 9 none 1 Ni Vanuatu 98 5 other 1 5 7 nbsp Samoa 218 764 2 831 67 821 23 72 13 99 7 Samoan Christian 98 9 Samoan 92 6 Euronesians 7 Europeans 0 4 nbsp Guam United States 170 534 1 478 122 371 93 78 18 99 English 38 3 Chamorro 22 2 20 Roman Catholic 85 Chamorro 37 1 Filipino 26 3 other Pacific islander 11 3 white 6 9 other 8 6 mixed 9 8 8 nbsp Tonga 106 017 747 164 096 25 71 03 98 9 Tongan English Christian Tongan 98 9 nbsp Federated States of Micronesia 113 131 702 152 641 22 71 23 89 English Roman Catholic 50 Protestant 47 others 3 Chuukese 48 8 Pohnpeian 24 2 Kosraean 6 2 Yapese 5 2 Yap outer islands 4 5 Asian 1 8 Polynesian 1 5 other 7 8 10 nbsp Kiribati 128 874 811 122 666 44 64 03 92 English Gilbertese de facto Roman Catholic 55 Protestant 36 Micronesian 98 8 nbsp American Samoa United States 45 035 199 333 829 92 73 97 97 English Samoan c 21 Christian Congregationalist 50 Roman Catholic 20 Protestant and other 30 native Pacific islander 91 6 Asian 2 8 white 1 1 mixed 4 2 other 0 3 11 nbsp Marshall Islands 42 050 181 363 862 71 71 48 93 7 Marshallese 98 2 English Protestant 54 8 other Christian 40 6 Marshallese 92 1 mixed Marshallese 5 9 other 2 nbsp Northern Mariana Islands United States 49 481 464 104 131 91 76 9 97 English 22 Christian Filipino 35 3 Chamorro 23 9 Multiracial 12 7 Chinese 6 8 Carolinian 4 6 Korean 4 2 2 3 Chuukese 2 2 Palauan 2 1 White 5 9 other12 nbsp Palau 18 024 459 45 488 81 71 51 92 Paluan 64 7 d English Roman Catholic 41 6 Protestant 23 3 Palauan 69 9 Filipino 15 3 Chinese 4 9 other Asian 2 4 white 1 9 Carolinian 1 4 other Micronesian 1 1 other 3 2 nbsp Wallis and Futuna France 11 627 142 108 049 0 78 83 50 e Wallisian 58 9 Futunian 30 1 French 10 8 Roman Catholic 99 Polynesian nbsp Cook Islands New Zealand 17 003 236 48 678 74 74 47 95 Maori English Cook Islands Christian Church 55 9 other Christian 30 5 Cook Island Maori 87 7 part Cook Island Maori 5 8 other 6 5 13 nbsp Tuvalu 11 204 26 401 615 49 64 39 93 23 Tuvalu English Church of Tuvalu Congregationalist 97 Polynesian 96 Micronesian 4 14 nbsp Nauru 12 511 21 441 286 100 64 99 99 24 Nauruan f Nauru Congregational Church 35 4 Roman Catholic 33 2 Nauru Independent Church Protestant 25 10 4 Nauruan 58 other Pacific Islander 26 Chinese 8 European 8 nbsp Norfolk Island Australia 2 155 36 59 861 NA NA NA g English Norfuk h Anglican 31 8 other Christian 30 9 none 19 9 European Tahitian Australian New Zealander Polynesian nbsp Tokelau New Zealand 1 849 12 116 667 0 69 26 NA Tokelauan English Congregational Christian Church 70 Roman Catholic 28 i Polynesian nbsp Niue New Zealand 1 937 260 5 208 39 69 5 27 NA j Niuean English Ekalesia Niue Protestant 61 1 other Christian 11 Latter Day Saints 8 8 Niuean 78 2 Pacific islander 10 2 European 4 5 mixed 3 9 Asian 0 2 unspecified 3 nbsp Pitcairn Islands United Kingdom 48 47 1 021 NA NA NA k English Pitkern Seventh day Adventist 100 European Tahitian l Total 44 491 724 8 506 427 4 073 71 77 87 91 73 3 28 Total minus mainland Australia 18 570 635 824 127 16 242 43 71 89 78 See also editEuropeans in Oceania Indigenous peoples of Oceania Y DNA haplogroups in populations of OceaniaNotes edit a Papua New Guinea has over 860 non official languages comprising approximately ten percent of all languages on Earth 29 b Melanesian pidgin is lingua franca in much of the country but English remains the official language 30 c Samoan and English were declared the official languages of American Samoa in June 2010 via a constitutional amendment to the 1967 Revised Constitution of American Samoa 21 d Palaun is the official language in all islands except Sonsoral Sonsoralese and English are official Tobi Tobi and English are official and Angaur Angaur Japanese and English are official e Based on a 1969 estimate f English while not an official language is widely understood spoken and used for most government and commercial purposes 31 g Norfuk was made the second official language of Norfolk Island in 2005 32 h While no valid literacy data is available Norfolk Island is assumed to have an adult literacy rate roughly at a par with Australia s literacy rate of 99 33 i On Atafu all Congregational Christian Church of Samoa on Nukunonu all Roman Catholic on Fakaofo both denominations with the Congregational Christian Church predominant j While no valid literacy data is available Niue is assumed to have an adult literacy rate of almost 100 34 k The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not hold any statistical information on the literacy rate of the Pitcairn population 35 l The residents of the Pitcairn Islands are descendants of HMS Bounty mutineers 36 and their Tahitian wives m Much of the information on these two websites is taken from the censuses of other countries and are not based on independent US government research The remaining figures are based on estimates and have been used only where census information from the nation in question is incomplete unclear or nonexistent References edit For a history of the term see Douglas amp Ballard 2008 Foreign bodies Oceania and the science of race 1750 1940 United Nations Statistics Division Countries of Oceania Millenniumindicators un org Archived from the original on 2011 07 13 Retrieved 2009 04 17 Atlas of Canada Web Master 2004 08 17 The Atlas of Canada The World Continents Atlas nrcan gc ca Archived from the original on 2012 11 04 Retrieved 2009 04 17 Current IOC members Archived 2009 10 02 at the Wayback Machine Encarta Mexico Oceania Mx encarta msn com Archived from the original on 2009 03 17 Retrieved 2009 04 17 Lewis Martin W Karen E Wigen 1997 The 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