United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Population Division

Urban and Rural Areas 1996

Percentage urbanAnnual growth rate, 1990-1995
Country or area19962030UrbanRural
Oceania 70.1 74.5 1.3 1.7
Australia/New Zealand 84.9 88.9 1.1 1.3
Australia (4) 84.7 88.5 1.0 1.6
New Zealand 86.1 91.3 1.4 -0.4
Melanesia 21.2 37.7 3.2 2.0
Fiji 40.9 59.3 2.2 1.1
New Caledonia 62.4 76.1 2.2 0.4
Papua New Guinea 16.3 33.0 3.6 2.0
Solomon Islands 17.5 38.3 6.4 2.7
Vanuatu 19.1 36.7 3.2 2.3
Micronesia 42.9 60.5 2.8 1.9
Guam 38.4 55.9 2.4 2.3
Kiribati 36.0 54.0 2.2 1.3
Marshall Islands 69.6 81.9 4.3 1.3
Micronesia (Fed. States of) 28.0 48.7 3.6 2.1
Nauru 100.0 100.0 1.9 0.0
Northern Mariana Islands 53.8 68.6 2.2 1.8
Pacific Islands (Palau) 71.5 81.8 2.1 0.5
Polynesia 41.9 57.6 2.3 0.7
American Samoa 50.8 67.9 3.9 2.2
Cook Islands 60.9 75.6 1.8 -0.4
French Polynesia 56.4 69.7 2.1 2.1
Niue 29.3 43.3 -3.1 -1.7
Pitcairn 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Samoa 21.1 36.3 0.0 0.0
Tokelau 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Tonga 42.1 65.5 0.6 0.6
Tuvalu 47.9 70.8 0.0 0.0
Wallis and Futuna Islands 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.1

(4) Including Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island.

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United Nations publication, (ST/ESA/SER.A/166), Sales No. E.97.XIII.3, Copyright (C) United Nations 1997