Thursday, March 08, 2012

Oh, the humanity: So many people in Kiribati fleeing CO2-induced disasters that the population has only doubled sinced the 1970s; net migration rate has skyrocketed all the way up to zero

Sea levels force Kiribati to ask Fijians for new home

WELLINGTON: The Pacific nation of Kiribati is negotiating to buy land in Fiji so it can move islanders under threat from rising sea levels, in what could be the first climate-induced relocation of a country.

Demographics of Kiribati - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

107,817 (December 2007 est.)

...The population grew by 78% from 52,000 in 1973 to 93,000 in 2005,[1] an annual average growth rate of 1.8%.
Net migration rate
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)

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