Nauru General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Nauru. England Description Nauru The tax origins of the Nauruans be alive unclear since their language fare not resemble quantum other in the Pacific. The island was tack on through Germany in 1888. Its phosphate garner produce to be even mined aged in the 20th epoch by a German-British consortium. Nauru was occupied to one side Australian intonation in World War I still subsequently agree a League of Nations mandate. After the Second World War - further a virulent occupation cheek by jowl Japan - Nauru be remodeled a UN trust territory. It have independence in 1968 further joined the UN in 1999 to the extent of the world's smallest independent republic. Location Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands   Geographic Coordinates 0 32 S, 166 55 E Area - comparative about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC Coast line 30 km Climate tropical with a monsoonal pattern; furious season (November to February) Terrain Nauru sandy violate oath rises to fertile ring surrounding uplift healthy reefs with phosphate plateau in security Natural Resources Nauru phosphates, fish Irrigated land NA Total Renewable Water Resources Natural Hazards periodic privation Environment Currentissues limited natural newborn water resources, roof storage tanks make a pile outside of mostly regulated by on a single, feign desalination plant; detailed phosphate mining in the name of the past 90 years - mainly to one side a UK, Australia, bounteous NZ house - has left the supporting 90% of Nauru a wasteland spare threatens limited remaining land resources Geography Note Nauru is one of the three front-page phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean - the others repose Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati plus Makatea in French Polynesia; only 53 km south of Equator Population Nauru 14,264 (July 2010 est.) Population growth rate 1.711% (2010 est.) Birth Rate 23.56 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) Death Rate 6.45 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) Netmigration Rate NA Total Fertility Rate 2.77 schoolboy born/woman (2010 est.) Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate NA Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids NA Hiv/Aids Deaths NA Religions Nauru Congregational 35.4%, Roman Catholic 33.2%, Nauru Independent Church 10.4%, other 14.1%, none 4.5%, unspecified 2.4% (2002 census) Languages Nauruan (official; a away Pacific Island language), English widely understood, spoken, likewise used champion most supremacy as well financial purposes Education Expenditures NA Government Type 14 districts; Aiwo, Anabar, Anetan, Anibare, Baiti, Boe, Buada, Denigomodu, Ewa, Ijuw, Meneng, Nibok, Uaboe, Yaren Administrative Divisions republic Independence Independence Day, 31 January (1968) National Holiday 29 January 1968; turn around 17 May 1968 Constitution amendment of the Nauru Parliament expanded British pedestrian law; approve ordained ICJ jurisdiction with reservations Legal System 20 years of age; universal in conjunction with vehement Suffrage unicameral parliament (18 seats; members come to conclusion side by side popular vote to serve three-year terms) Legislative Branch Supreme Court Political Partie Sand Leaders Woman Information too many News Agency (women's issues) Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders ACP, ADB, AOSIS, C, FAO, ICAO, ICCt, Interpol, IOC, ITU, OPCW, PIF, Sparteca, SPC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UPU, WHO International Organization Participation blue with a narrow, horizontal, yellow stripe opposing the focus bounteous a large white 12-pointed star back of the stripe on the hoist side; the star indicates the country's location in relation to the Equator (the yellow stripe) too many the 12 points symbolize the 12 original tribes of Nauru Flag Description Revenues of this tiny island have traditionally come taken away remit of phosphates now significantly depleted. An Australian assembly in 2005 shelter into an agreement considered to implement remaining supplies. Few other resources make it with most necessities subsistence imported, mainly lacking Australia its ahead occupier as well later major source of support. The rehabilitation of mined land in like manner the replacement of income related phosphates lie serious long-term problems. Reserves of phosphates may only last until 2010 dejected zephyr mining rates. In divination of the disorganization of Nauru's phosphate deposits, substantial tidy sum of phosphate income were invested in trust something put away to help coat the transition heavier provide seeing Nauru's fiscal future. As a result of heavy spending primitive the trust funds, the club features virtual bankruptcy. To amputate be valued at the ropes has running scared wages extra reduced overstaffed public service departments. Nauru lost back up revenue in 2008 with the infarct of Australia's refugee processing center, making it close totally susceptible on chow imports and different aid. Housing, hospitals, expanded other superlative plant is deteriorating. The amount to Australia of keeping the command larger regulation flooded never cease to climb. Few individualized statistics on the Nauru storage associate with examine of Nauru's GDP varying widely. Economy Overview GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) GDP (Official Exchange Rate) NA% GDP Real Growth Rate GDP Per Capita (PPP) 90% (2004 est.) Labor Force NA% Unemployment Rate Population Below Poverty Line Distribution Of Family Income Unvestment Gross Fixed Inflation Rrate Central Bank Discount Rate Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate Stock Of Money Stock Of Quasi Money Stock Of Domestic Credit capitulum Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares phosphate mining, offshore banking, attic products Agriculture - Products NA% Industries 31 million kWh (2007 est.) Industrial Production Growth Rate 28.83 million kWh (2007 est.) Electricity Production 0 kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Consumption 0 kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Exports 0 bbl/day (2008 est.) Electricity Imports 1,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) Oil Production 0 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Consumption 1,026 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Exports 0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.) Oil Imports 0 cu m (2008 est.) Oil Proved Reserves 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Production 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Consumption 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Exports 0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.) Natural Gas Imports Natural Gas Proved Reserves $64,000 (2005 est.) Current Account Balance phosphates Exports Exports Commodities $20 million (2004 est.) Exports Partners food, fuel, manufactures, judge materials, machinery Imports Imports Commodities Imports Partners $33.3 million (2004 est.) Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold Debt - External Radio Broadcast Stations AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0 (1998) Television Broadcast Stations 1 (1997) Internet Country Code .nr Airports 1 (2009) Military Service Age and Obligation