Where you could be born / Oceania / Micronesia
Born in Palau
About 1 in 660,550 people born in 2023 started life in Palau. A boy can expect to live 67 years and a girl 72, up from 49 and 58 in 1950. Most people live in cities, and nearly everyone has basic drinking water.
Life and health
Life lasts about 16 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 122 in every 1,000 births to 22.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 7.2 children on average in 1950. Now it is 1.9, below the 2.1 it takes to keep a population steady.
Average over a lifetime.
Money and work
Daily life
The largest city is Ngerulmud, with 0 people.
People on the move
About 15% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia.
Safety nets
100% of older people receive a pension. Help for someone who loses a job reaches 0%.
Events in the data
The game draws real events from these records, so a life lived here can meet them.
Now live it.
Born in Palau, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Oceania
How to read the sources. Every figure is sourced to a named dataset, shown beside it. A figure marked "Extrapolated" is estimated by a model because no survey covers the year. UN figures are for 2023, the latest year of UN estimates; other figures are the latest year their dataset has. Rank 1 is the highest figure among 230 countries and territories. All sources and licences