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==Emigration From Nauru== | ==Emigration From Nauru== | ||
*Nauru had 10,670 residents as of July 2018. The population was previously larger, but in 2006 1,500 people left the island during a '''repatriation of immigrant workers from Kiribati and Tuvalu'''. The repatriation was motivated by significant layoffs in phosphate mining. | *Nauru had 10,670 residents as of July 2018. The population was previously larger, but in 2006 1,500 people left the island during a '''repatriation of immigrant workers from Kiribati and Tuvalu'''. The repatriation was motivated by significant layoffs in phosphate mining. | ||
*Fifty-eight percent of people in Nauru are ethnically Nauruan, 26 percent are other Pacific Islander, 8 percent are European, and 8 percent are Han Chinese. | *Fifty-eight percent of people in Nauru are ethnically Nauruan, 26 percent are other Pacific Islander, 8 percent are European, and 8 percent are Han Chinese.<ref>'''Nauru''', in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru, accessed 1 August 2021.</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Emigration and Immigration Records]] | [[Category:Emigration and Immigration Records]] | ||