Nauru is the world's third-smallest country and the smallest island nation. Once wealthy from phosphate mining, the island is now almost entirely mined out.
Nauruan, English
These figures are calculated from the data on this page and compared with the other 195 countries Beelad covers.
| Population density | 565 people per km² rank 11 of 196 (highest first); the average across all 196 countries is 60 per km² |
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| Share of world population | 0.000147 % world total: 8,091,734,930 (UN, 1 July 2023) |
| Share of Oceania | 0.0266% of its people, 0.000247% of its land area |
| Area in square miles | 8.11 1 km² = 0.386 sq mi |
| Closest in size | Tuvalu (26 km²) |
| Closest in population | Tuvalu (9,816 people) |
3 other countries in our list also use AUD: Australia, Kiribati, Tuvalu.