Demographics of New Caledonia

The total population of New Caledonia is 279,821 people. People in New Caledonia speak the French language. The linguistic diversity of New Caledonia is rather diverse according to a fractionalization scale which for New Caledonia is 0.6633. The median age is approximately 31.1 years. Life expectancy in New Caledonia is 74.5. The female fertility rate in New Caledonia is 2.3. The ethnic diversity is almost uniform according to a fractionalization scale which for New Caledonia is 0. To find out specifics of language, religion, age, gender distribution, and advancement of people in New Caledonia see the sections below, as well as visit the section concerning the education in the country.

Population

In New Caledonia, the population density is 13.9 people per square kilometer (36 per square mile). Because of this statistic, this country is considered to be sparsely populated. The total population of New Caledonia is 279,821 people. New Caledonia has approximately 64,290 foreign immigrants. Immigrants in New Caledonia represent 0.1 percent of the total number of immigrants in the world. Immigrants in New Caledonia represent 24.8 percent of the total number of immigrants in the world. The ethnic diversity of New Caledonia is almost uniform according to a fractionalization scale based on ethnicity. Ethnic fractionalization (EF) deals with the number, sizes, socioeconomic distribution, and geographical location of distinct cultural groups, usually in a state or some otherwise delineated territory. Specific cultural features might refer to language, skin color, religion, ethnicity, customs and traditions, history, or other distinctive criteria, alone or in combination. Frequently, these features are used for social exclusion and the monopolization of power. The index of ethnic fractionalization in New Caledonia is 0. This means that the people living in New Caledonia are somewhat fractionalized. EF is usually measured as 1 minus the Herfindahl concentration index of ethnolinguistic group shares, which reproduces the probability that two randomly drawn individuals from the population belong to different groups. The theoretical maximum of EF of 1 means that each person belongs to a different group. Read below for statistics of New Caledonia on median age and gender distribution at various ages.

Age

The median age is approximately 31.1 years. The median age for men is 30.4, while the median age for women is 31.7.

Gender

The sex ratio, or the number of males for each female (estimated at birth), is 1.05. It can be further divided into the following categories: sex ratio under 15 - 1.04; sex ratio from 15 to 64 - 1.01; sex ratio over 64 - 0.86; total sex ratio - 1.01. Total sex ratio is different from sex ratio estimated at birth. This is due to the fact that some newborns are considered in the sex ratio estimated at birth but pass away within the first weeks of their life and are not included in the total sex ratio.

Religion

The majority religion of New Caledonia is Christianity, the followers of which comprise 85.2% of all religious believers in the country. Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as presented in the New Testament. Christianity is the world's largest religion, with over 2.4 billion adherents, known as Christians. Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the savior of humanity whose coming as Christ or the Messiah was prophesied in the Old Testament. The religious diversity of New Caledonia is rather diverse according to a fractionalization scale based on the number of religions in New Caledonia. The index of religious fractionalization in New Caledonia is 0.5462. This score means that there are several major religions distributed evenly within New Caledonia.

General development

New Caledonia is considered to be a developed nation. The developmental stage of a nation is determined by a number of factors including, but not limited to, economic prosperity, life expectancy, income equality, and quality of life. As a developed nation, New Caledonia is able to provide its citizens with social services like public education, healthcare, and law enforcement. Citizens of developed nations enjoy a high standard of living and longer life expectancies than citizens of developing nations. In New Caledonia, 58 in every 100 people use internet. The migration rate in New Caledonia is 4.01%.

Language

People in New Caledonia speak the French language. The linguistic diversity of New Caledonia is rather diverse according to a fractionalization scale based on the number of unrelated languages spoken in New Caledonia. The index of linguistic fractionalization in New Caledonia is 0.6633. This means that there are several major languages spoken in New Caledonia. Unrelated languages share few characteristics of grammatical structure, vocabulary, and etymological heritage. Linguistic diversity often results in issues of social and cultural fractionalization that can impact a country’s political circumstance and public policies.