{"id":806,"date":"2008-06-06T04:56:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T12:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbrace.laughingsquid.net\/wordpress\/?p=806"},"modified":"2008-06-06T04:56:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T12:56:31","slug":"pacific-population-nears-95-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Pacific population nears 9.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The population of the Pacific is set to reach nearly 9.5 million by the middle of this year.<\/p>\n<p>New data from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community shows the region&#8217;s population is growing by 1.9 per cent a year, or 500 people a day.<\/p>\n<p>The population estimates are compiled by the Secretariat from country statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The report predicts the population of Melanesia will grow to more than eight-point-three million people, Polynesia to more than 655,000 and Micronesia more than 530,000 by mid-year.<\/p>\n<p>The largest individual country population is that of Papua New Guinea, which has an estimated six-point-five million people, followed by Fiji with nearly 840,000.<\/p>\n<p>The smallest is Pitcairn Island with just 66 people.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, the fastest-growing population is that of Guam, where thousands of American troops are being relocated from Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Both Niue and the Northern Marianas are experiencing a decrease in residents, the latter because of the lack of jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The population of the Pacific is set to reach nearly 9.5 million by the middle of this year. New data from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community shows the region&#8217;s population is growing by 1.9 per cent a year, or 500 people a day. The population estimates are compiled by the Secretariat from country statistics. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[60,10,11,27,30,35,41,43],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}