Micronesia vs Tuvalu

Micronesia and Tuvalu compared on 9 key figures from official sources. Each value is the latest one published for that country, so the year is shown with it.

• Micronesia has about 12 times as many people as Tuvalu: 113,683 against 9,492 in 2025.
• GDP per person in Tuvalu ($6,041) is 37% higher than in Micronesia ($4,414) in 2025.
• The economy grew faster in Tuvalu (1.6%) than in Micronesia (1.1%), a difference of 0.5 percentage points in 2025.
• Consumer prices rose faster in Micronesia (5.4% in 2022) than in Tuvalu (0.5% in 2011), a difference of 4.9 percentage points.
• Life expectancy at birth is about the same in Micronesia (67.4 years) and Tuvalu (67.3 years) in 2024.
• The population of Tuvalu is older: half of its people are over 24.3 years, against 22.9 years in Micronesia in 2023.
• A larger share of people used the internet in Micronesia (39.5% in 2024) than in Tuvalu (35.2% in 2017), a difference of 4.3 percentage points.
• Forest covers a larger share of the land in Micronesia (92.1%) than in Tuvalu (39.6%), a difference of 52.5 percentage points in 2024.