“‘Earth’s empty quarter’: many Pacific nations now have falling populations”

“… On tiny Pitcairn Island, with a population of fewer than 50, it is well over a decade since the last child was born.

But it’s not the same everywhere in the Pacific – while Micronesia and Polynesia are broadly shrinking, Melanesian nations are booming.
Migration isn’t new, of course. What will be new is the prospect of so many people moving that small nations effectively cease to exist. Climate change will only intensify these shifts…”

Source: The Conversation
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Majuro atoll and Majuro town in Marshall islands

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