"Women and Men in Vanuatu."
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Marriage, families and households

Health and wellbeing

Education

Work and employment

Migration

Information and technology

Income, assets and housing

The Population and Housing Census is a reach source of data that tells about the situation of all people in Vanuatu.

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Torba Province                          Sanma Province                               Penama Province

Malampa Province                     Shefa Province                                Tafea Province

 "Our population is now 234,023, which represents an average annual growth rate of 2.3 percent per year since the last Census in 1999."

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The Official Summary Release of the 2009 census on Population and Housing of Vanuatu is now available for public access by clicking here.

March recorded a high number of day visitors arrivals in Vanuatu...

In March 2012, tourism arrival statistics registered 24% of international visitors by air and 76% were day visitors by cruise ship. According to the records, the month of March indicated a rise in the number of visitor arrivals by 35% over February 2012. In comparison to the same period of previous year, visitors also show an increase of 20%. This is due to a rise in the number of holiday visitor arrivals to Vanuatu in March 2012.

There was a very large increase in cruise ship visitors (day visitors) for the month of March 2012 compared to March 2011 due to a higher number of cruise ship visits in March 2012, increasing from 5 to 12. Out of the total number of visiting cruise ships in March 2012, ten carried more than 2,300 passengers each as compared to only four in March 2011. However, when compared to the previous months, statistics were still lower than February with a decrease of 21% due to lower number of cruise ship visits.

Purpose of Visit

Out of the total international visitor arrivals in March 2012, 79% came to Vanuatu for holiday and 13% arrived in the country for conferences, meetings and other business. Another 7% came to visit friends and relatives while 1% arrived in Vanuatu to transit. The share for visitors coming for holidays increased by 3 percentage points compared to the same period of 2011, whereas the share for visitors coming for business and meeting, and visitors visiting friends and relatives decreased respectively by 2 and 1 percentage points in detriment to holiday visitors.

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Download the Tourism report of October 2011 from here

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The monthly report of August 2011 can be download from here.

Copra exports increases to 55% in March...

 According to March 2012 trade statistics; there was a trade deficit of 1,134 million vatu indicating an improvement of 705 million vatu compared to March 2011. The improvement was due to a significant drop in imports over the month of March 2011. Domestic exports (excluding re-exports) for March 2012 decreased by 30% from 609 million vatu in March 2011 to 427 million vatu. However, domestic exports increased by 39% when compared to February 2012. Total imports decreased by 36% from 2,447 million vatu in March 2011 to 1,561 million vatu. This decrease was due to a 36% decrease in imports for home consumption.

Exports

In March 2012, copra constituted of 55% of total exports in value terms, followed by beef 11%, kava and other products 9% while the rest of the group make up less than 5% each. Other includes products such as: waste and scrap, personal effect , medical products and sandalwood.

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