FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

Population

Total: 100,319 (2023 est.)

Age Structure: 0-14 years: 27.41%, 15-64 years: 67.13%, 65 years and over: 5.46%

Population by gender: male 49%, female 51% (2023 est.)

Urban population: 23.4% of total population (2023)

Rate of urbanization: 1.5% annual rate of change (2020-2025 est.)

Total fertility rate: 2.22 children born/woman (2023 est.)

Diabetes rate: Prevalence (age-adjusted 20-79 years) – 15.6% (2021); proportion of people with undiagnosed diabetes – 51.5% (2021)

Drink water source: improved – 78.6% of population; unimproved – 21.4% of population (2017 est.)

Sanitation facility access: improved – 88.3% of population; unimproved – 11.7% of population (2017 est.)

Ethnicity: Chuukese/Mortlockese 49.3%, Pohnpeian 29.8%, Kosraean 6.3%, Yapese 5.7%, Yap outer islanders 5.1%, Polynesian 1.6%, Asian 1.4%, other 0.8% (2010 est.)

Languages: English (official and common language), Chuukese, Kosrean, Pohnpeian, Yapese, Ulithian, Woleaian, Nukuoro, Kapingamarangi

Literacy: 98.8% for citizens aged 15 to 24

Economy

Real GDP: $375.055 million (2021 est.)

GDP per capita: $3,300 (2021 est. in 2017 dollars)

GDP composition by sector of origin: agriculture 26.3%, industry 18.9%, services 54.8% (2013 est.)

Labor force by occupation: agriculture (0.9%), industry (5.2%), services (93.9%); note that ⅔ of the labor force are government employees (2013 est.) 

Unemployment rate: 16.2% (2010 est.)

Poverty: 41.2% of population below poverty line (2013 est.)

WIC: There is no WIC program in FSM

Agricultural Product: coconuts, cassava, vegetables, sweet potatoes, bananas, pork, plantains, fruit, eggs, beef

Top Industries: tourism, construction; specialized aquaculture, craft items (shell and wood)

Exports: $88.3 million (2013 est.); fish and fish products, coral/shells, scrap metals, mollusks, office machinery/parts (2019)

Imports: $167.8 million (2015 est.); poultry meats, netting, broadcasting equipment, various meats, fish products (2019)

Transportation

Airport (6), Roadway (paved and unpaved circumferential roads, most interior roads are unpaved), Merchant marine (37 (general cargo 19, oil tanker 4, other 14)), Ports and terminals (major seaports in Colonia (Tamil Harbor), Molsron Lele harbor, and Pohnpei Harbor)

Geography

Land: 702 sq km

Natural Resource: timber, marine products, deep-seabed minerals, phosphate

Land Use: agricultural land (25.5%) – arable land (2.3%), permanent crops (19.7%), permanent pasture (3.5%); forest (74.5%); other (0%) (2018 est.)

Climate: tropical; heavy year-round rainfall, especially in the eastern islands; located on southern edge of the typhoon belt with occasionally severe damage

Environmental-current issue: overfishing; sea level rise due to climate change threatens land; water pollution, toxic pollution from mining; solid waste disposal