PORT VILA – Vanuatu has highest annual population growth rate in the world.
Government ministers, parliamentarians and heads of statutory bodies and non-government organisations of the country have heard that Vanuatu has the highest annual population growth rate in the world.
Giving a presentation to the leaders at the Advocacy Workshop for Parliamentarians on Populations and Development in Port Vila last week, Assistant Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Pacific Sub-Regional Office in Suva, Fiji — Lorna Rolls, said together with Solomon Islands, Vanuatu had the highest annual population growth rate of 2.3 per cent, followed closely by Kiribati 2.1 per cent.
