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IndicatorPLWPalauEast Asia & Pacific
Governance
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile58.1rank #62
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile51.5rank #101
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile87.1rank #15
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile62.5rank #57
Rule of Law0-100 percentile77.1rank #28
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile75rank #33
Women in parliament% seats25%rank #93
Economy
Agriculture value added% GDP2.7%rank #129
Current account balance% GDP-48.6%rank #179
FDI net inflows% GDP21.5%rank #7
GDPcurrent US$345Mrank #183
GDP growth%6.3%rank #30
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$19,532.4rank #58
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $19,698.6rank #83
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $16,034.5rank #95
Government expenditure% GDP59%rank #4
Gross capital formation% GDP35%rank #11
Gross savings% GDP-13%rank #156
High-technology exports% manuf. exports51.7%rank #4
Industry value added% GDP13%rank #163
Inflation%-0.42%rank #6
Personal remittances received% GDP0.8%rank #119
Tax revenue% GDP18.1%rank #53
Trade openness% GDP105.8%rank #54
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop99.5%rank #38
Basic sanitation access% pop99%rank #37
Child mortalityper 1002.1rank #89
DTP3 immunization coverage%97%rank #3
Health spending% GDP10.9%rank #18
Infant mortalityper 1k births18.6rank #84
Life expectancyyears69.4rank #157
Maternal mortalityper 100k89rank #55
Measles immunization% children96%rank #4
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%96%rank #4
Physiciansper 1k1.8rank #29
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m34.9rank #14
Road traffic deathsper 100k4.8rank #17
Smoking prevalence% adults23%rank #83
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k28rank #59
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births21.4rank #125
Education
Adult literacy%99.8%rank #2
Education spending% GDP3.4%rank #68
Expected years of schoolingyears14.1rank #84
Mean years of schoolingyears13.3rank #11
Primary completion rate% relevant age100.4%rank #23
Primary enrollment% gross106.9%rank #29
Secondary enrollment% gross95.7%rank #48
Tertiary enrollment% gross71.8%rank #26
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00010.7rank #141
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.9rank #113
Median age of populationyears37.8rank #63
Net migration rateper 1,000-1.1rank #136
Populationpeople17,663rank #215
Population growth%-0.18%rank #189
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years72.3rank #169
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands15.5rank #216
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age41.6rank #195
Urban population%79.3%rank #51
Climate
CO₂ emissionst226,099rank #194
CO₂ per capitat12.8rank #17
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Forest area% land90.5%rank #4
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita10.2rank #160
Renewable energy share%0.9%rank #62
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e0.18rank #10
Society
Asylum seekerspeople5rank #1
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 1007.3rank #107
Gender Development Indexratio0.99rank #32
Homicide rateper 100k11.2rank #107
Human Development Index0-10.79rank #67
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.62rank #71
Internet users% pop83.9%rank #81
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #72
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #46
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.02rank #76
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.11rank #99
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people5rank #159
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people5rank #1
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-101.2rank #7
Human hazard & exposure0-100rank #1
INFORM risk score0-102.1rank #10
Lack of coping capacity0-103.3rank #25
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-101.8rank #15
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-104.5rank #24
Natural hazard & exposure0-102.3rank #10
Socio-economic vulnerability0-103.6rank #37
Vulnerability0-102.4rank #13
Vulnerable groups0-101rank #7
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