R e f e r e n c e Commonwealth Governance Handbook 2013/14 317 Geography and population Total area Total Population Population Population Projected Birth rate population under 18 over 65 per square km population growth (sq km) ('000) (%) (%) (% p.a.) (per '000) 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010-15 2011 Antigua and Barbuda 443 90 31 203 1.0 Australia 7,682,395 22,606 23 14 3 1.3 14 The Bahamas 13,939 347 27 7 25 1.1 15 Bangladesh 143,998 150,494 37 5 1,045 1.3 20 Barbados 431 274 22 12 636 0.2 11 Belize 22,965 318 41 4 14 2.0 24 Botswana 582,000 2,031 39 4 3 1.1 23 Brunei Darussalam 5,765 406 31 4 70 1.7 19 Cameroon 475,442 20,030 47 4 42 2.1 36 Canada 9,976,000 34,350 20 14 3 0.9 11 Cyprus 9,251 1,117 22 12 121 1.1 12 Dominica 750 68 31 91 0.0 Fiji 18,333 868 35 5 47 0.8 21 The Gambia1 11,295 1,776 51 2 157 2.7 38 Ghana 238,537 24,966 45 4 105 2.3 31 Grenada 345 105 33 7 304 0.4 19 Guyana 214,970 756 39 4 4 0.2 18 India 3,287,263 1,241,492 36 5 378 1.3 22 Jamaica 10,991 2,751 35 8 250 0.4 18 Kenya 582,646 41,610 49 3 71 2.7 37 Kiribati 811 101 36 125 1.5 Lesotho 30,355 2,194 44 4 72 1.0 28 Malawi 118,484 15,381 53 3 130 3.2 44 Malaysia 329,758 28,859 35 5 88 1.6 20 Maldives 298 320 33 5 1,074 1.3 17 Malta 316 418 18 15 1,323 0.3 9 Mauritius 2,040 1,307 26 7 641 0.5 13 Mozambique 799,380 23,930 51 3 30 2.2 37 Namibia 824,269 2,324 43 4 3 1.7 26 Nauru 21 10 40 476 0.6 New Zealand 270,500 4,415 25 13 16 1.0 15 Nigeria 923,768 162,471 49 3 176 2.5 40 Pakistan 796,095 176,745 42 4 222 1.8 27 Papua New Guinea 462,840 7,014 45 3 15 2.2 30 Rwanda 26,338 10,943 49 3 415 2.9 41 St Kitts and Nevis 262 53 32 202 1.2 St Lucia 616 176 31 7 286 1.0 17 St Vincent and the Grenadines 389 109 32 7 280 0.0 17 Samoa 2,831 184 44 5 65 0.5 24 Seychelles 455 87 49 191 0.3 Sierra Leone 71,740 5,997 49 2 84 2.1 38 Singapore 699 5,188 21 9 7,422 1.1 9 Solomon Islands 28,370 552 46 3 19 2.5 31 South Africa 1,221,038 50,460 36 5 41 0.5 21 Sri Lanka 65,610 21,045 29 8 321 0.8 18 Swaziland 17,364 1,203 46 3 69 1.4 29 Tonga 748 105 44 6 140 0.4 27 Trinidad and Tobago 5,128 1,346 25 7 262 0.3 15 Tuvalu 26 10 40 385 0.2 Uganda 236,000 34,509 55 3 146 3.1 45 United Kingdom 243,305 62,417 21 17 257 0.6 12 United Republic of Tanzania 945,090 46,218 51 3 49 3.1 41 Vanuatu 12,190 246 44 4 20 2.4 29 Zambia 752,614 13,475 53 3 18 3.0 46 Data reproduced with permission from: UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children Report 2013, UNICEF, New York, 2013 1The Gambia withdrew from the Commonwealth 3 October 2013
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