Palau vs Tuvalu

Palau 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.

• Palau has about 1.9 times as many people as Tuvalu: 17,663 against 9,492 in 2025.
• GDP per person in Palau ($19,532) is about 3.2 times as high as in Tuvalu ($6,041) in 2025.
• The economy grew faster in Palau (6.3%) than in Tuvalu (1.6%), a difference of 4.7 percentage points in 2025.
• Consumer prices rose faster in Tuvalu (0.5% in 2011) than in Palau (-0.4% in 2025), a difference of 0.9 percentage points.
• A baby born in Palau can expect to live 2.1 years longer than one born in Tuvalu: 69.4 years against 67.3 years in 2024.
• The population of Palau is older: half of its people are over 37.8 years, against 24.3 years in Tuvalu in 2023.
• A larger share of people used the internet in Palau (83.9% in 2024) than in Tuvalu (35.2% in 2017), a difference of 48.7 percentage points.
• Forest covers a larger share of the land in Palau (90.8%) than in Tuvalu (39.6%), a difference of 51.2 percentage points in 2024.