| Official name | State of Tuvalu |
| Name in local language | Tuvalu (tvl) ; State of Tuvalu (en) |
| Continent | Oceania |
| Subcontinent | Oceania |
| Population (ranking: 240e) | 9,605 inhabitants (2019) |
| Population growth | -1.69 % / year |
| Area | 26 km² |
| Density | 374.76 inhabitants / km² |
| GDP (ranking: 244e) | 0.043 billions $USD (2018) |
| GDP/capita (ranking) | 3,701 $USD (2018) |
| GDP growth | 2.50 % / year (2018) |
| Life expectancy (ranking) | 67.20 years (2018) |
| Birth rate | 23.70 ‰ (2018) |
| Fertility rate | 2.93 children / woman (2018) |
| Death rate (ranking) | 8.40 ‰ (2018) |
| Infant mortality rate (ranking) | 28.20 ‰ (2018) |
| Literacy rate | 99.00 % (2002) |
| Official languages | Tuvaluan, English |
| Currency | Tuvaluan dollar (TV$), Australian dollar ($ AUD) |
| HDI (ranking: 143e) | 0.711 / 1 (2008) |
| EPI (ranking) | 0.00 (2018) |
| Government | Unitary non-partisan parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
| Head of State | Queen Elizabeth II ; Governor-General Iakoba Italeli |
| National Day | 1 October (independence of 1978) |
| ISO Codes | TV, TUV |
| Demonym | Tuvaluan |
| Tourists (ranking) | 2,000 people (2017) |
Tuvalu is a Polynesian archipelago located in the Pacific Ocean, south of Kiribati and northern Fiji. It has been independent since 1978. Comprising nine coral atolls all inhabited, the country is dramatically facing global climate change.
Sea levels are rising and threatening to overwhelm the atolls, which are barely above sea level. The surface area of the islands (25,63 km2) is shrinking, leaving less and less place to live. And forces people to flee from the threat of engulfment. The population is currently declining at a rate of -1.69% per year.
The situation is therefore potentially catastrophic, and major work is to be undertaken to raise the level of land, if the country does not want to be completely evacuated. Major works of which the country can not finance only the execution, its means being very limited.
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Urban areas (2019)
| Urban areas | Population |
|---|---|
| Funafuti | 7,000 inhabitants |