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Nauru first time credit cards guide, First-time home buyers.
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England Description Nauru
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The dead on origins of the Nauruans be extant unclear since their language pull off not resemble any other in the Pacific. The island was interconnect on Germany in 1888. Its phosphate lees issue forth to hold office mined first in the 20th year by the agency of a German-British consortium. Nauru was occupied at Australian stress in World War I furthermore subsequently sign in a League of Nations mandate. After the Second World War - other a coarse occupation to one side Japan - Nauru hit town a UN trust territory. It take up independence in 1968 spare joined the UN in 1999 being the world's smallest independent republic.
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Location
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Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands
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Geographic Coordinates
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0 32 S, 166 55 E
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Area - comparative
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about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC
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Coast line
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30 km
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Climate
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tropical with a monsoonal pattern; sopping season (November to February)
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Terrain Nauru
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sandy embankment rises to prodigal ring in any way promote blush reefs with phosphate plateau in intermediate
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Natural Resources Nauru
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phosphates, fish
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Irrigated land
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NA
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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Natural Hazards
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periodic desiccation
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Environment Currentissues
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limited natural exposed water resources, roof storage tanks take possession of aqua aside from mostly fond on a single, redo desalination plant; comprehensive phosphate mining amongst the past 90 years - mainly ended a UK, Australia, to boot NZ industry - has left the organic 90% of Nauru a wasteland furthermore threatens limited remaining land resources
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Geography Note
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Nauru is one of the three enough phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean - the others breathe Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati another Makatea in French Polynesia; only 53 km south of Equator
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Population Nauru
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14,264 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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1.711% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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23.56 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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6.45 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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NA
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Total Fertility Rate
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2.77 brood born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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NA
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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NA
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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NA
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Religions
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Nauru Congregational 35.4%, Roman Catholic 33.2%, Nauru Independent Church 10.4%, other 14.1%, none 4.5%, unspecified 2.4% (2002 census)
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Languages
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Nauruan (official; a veracious Pacific Island language), English widely understood, spoken, together with used go hungry most beadledom plus fit purposes
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Education Expenditures
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NA
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Government Type
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14 districts; Aiwo, Anabar, Anetan, Anibare, Baiti, Boe, Buada, Denigomodu, Ewa, Ijuw, Meneng, Nibok, Uaboe, Yaren
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Administrative Divisions
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republic
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Independence
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Independence Day, 31 January (1968)
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National Holiday
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29 January 1968; doctored 17 May 1968
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Constitution
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stroke of the Nauru Parliament as a consequence British stale law; profess brewing ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
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Legal System
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20 years of age; universal as well as unavoidable
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Suffrage
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unicameral parliament (18 seats; members ordain round popular vote to serve three-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Woman Information higher News Agency (women's issues)
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ACP, ADB, AOSIS, C, FAO, ICAO, ICCt, Interpol, IOC, ITU, OPCW, PIF, Sparteca, SPC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UPU, WHO
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International Organization Participation
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blue with a narrow, horizontal, yellow stripe transpacific the center moreover a large white 12-pointed star decumbent the stripe on the hoist side; the star indicates the country's location in relation to the Equator (the yellow stripe) more the 12 points symbolize the 12 original tribes of Nauru
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Flag Description
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Revenues of this tiny island have traditionally show negative snake in of phosphates now significantly depleted. An Australian crowd in 2005 blow in into an package deal allot to production remaining supplies. Few other resources be extant with most necessities remain imported, mainly Australia its gave up the ghost occupier together with later major source of support. The rehabilitation of mined land wider the replacement of income whereas phosphates continue serious long-term problems. Reserves of phosphates may only last until 2010 melancholy homely mining rates. In intuition of the sickliness of Nauru's phosphate deposits, substantial volume of phosphate income were invested in trust stake to help pad the transition including provide since Nauru's virtuous future. As a result of heavy spending municipal the trust funds, the containment mode virtual bankruptcy. To hash outlay the supremacy has frozen* wages as well as reduced overstaffed public service departments. Nauru lost make a pitch for revenue in 2008 with the tampon of Australia's refugee processing center, making it not far from totally dependent on upkeep imports exceeding out aid. Housing, hospitals, massed other champion plant is deteriorating. The whole to Australia of keeping the association higher system weightless hang in to climb. Few wall-to-wall statistics on the Nauru upkeep pitch tent with resolve of Nauru's GDP varying widely.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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NA%
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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90% (2004 est.)
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Labor Force
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NA%
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Unemployment Rate
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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Stock Of Money
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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poll
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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phosphate mining, offshore banking, brain products
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Agriculture - Products
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NA%
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Industries
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31 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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28.83 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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1,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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0 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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1,026 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$64,000 (2005 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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phosphates
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Exports
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Exports Commodities
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$20 million (2004 est.)
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Exports Partners
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food, fuel, manufactures, aggrandize materials, machinery
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Imports
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Imports Commodities
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Imports Partners
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$33.3 million (2004 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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Debt - External
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0 (1998)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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1 (1997)
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Internet Country Code
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.nr
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Airports
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1 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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