Demographics of Kiribati
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Kiribati, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.Population
Statistics
The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.Nationality
- Noun: I-Kiribati
- Adjective: Kiribati or Gilbertese
Ethnic groups
- I-Kiribati 96.2%, 105,983
- Mixed/I-Kiribati 1.8% 1,974
- Tuvaluans 0.2% 198
- Others 1.8% 1,981
Religions
- Roman Catholic: 57.3%
- Kiribati Uniting Church: 31.3%
- Latter-day Saints: 5.3%
- Bahá'í: 2.1%
- Seventh-day Adventist: 1.9%
- Other: 2.1%
Languages
- English
- Gilbertese
Population
- 110,136
- 111,796
Age structure
- 0–14 years: 28.47%
- 15–24 years: 20.24%
- 25–54 years: 40.05%
- 55–64 years: 6.65%
- 65 years and over: 4.59%
From 2015 Census:
- 0-5 years: 17,466
- 6-14 years: 20,962
- 15-17 years: 7,089
- 18-49 years: 49,972
- + 50 years: 14,637
Median age
- Average: 23.9 years
- Male: 23.1 years
- Female: 24.8 years
- 1.09%
Birth rate
- 20.5 births/1,000 population
Death rate
- 6.9 deaths/1,000 population
- -2.8 migrant/1,000 population
Urbanization
- Urban population: 55.6% of Total population
- Rate of urbanization: 1.78% annual rate of change
Sex ratio (male(s) to female)
- At birth: 1.05
- 0–14 years: 1.04
- 15–24 years: 0.97
- 25–54 years: 0.93
- 55–64 years: 0.82
- 65 years and over: 0.64
- Total population: 0.94
- 90 deaths/100,000 live births
- Total: 34.26 deaths/1,000 live births
- Male: 35.48 deaths/1,000 live births
- Female: 32.99 deaths/1,000 live births
- Total population: 67.5 years
- Male: 65 years
- Female: 70.2 years
- 2.25 children born/woman
- 10.8%
Physicians density
- 0.2 physicians/1,000 population
- 1.9 beds/1,000 population
- 46%
- Male: 11 years
- Female: 12 years
