50th Pacific Island Forum

Leaders meeting in Funafuti will focus on climate change, identifying the issue as “the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and wellbeing of the peoples of the Pacific”


PACIFIC ISLAND FORUM (PIF) MEMBERS*


MAP KEY Population (2016)

4 Cook Islands			17,379
5 Fiji (PIF secretariat)	898,760
6 French Polynesia		280,208
7 Kiribati			114,395
8 Marshall Islands		53,066
9 Micronesia			104,937
10 Nauru			11,347
11 New Caledonia		272,677
12 Niue				1,642
13 Palau			21,503
14 Papua New Guinea		8,084,991
15 Samoa			195,125
16 Solomon Islands		599,419
17 Tonga			107,122
18 Vanuatu			270,402

1 Tuvalu 11,097

2 Australia 24,125,848

3 New Zealand 4,660,833

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Hawaii (U.S.)

Pacific Ocean

2,000km 1,243 miles


TUVALU
Summit host
Aug 13-16, 2019

Funafuti

Namo Lagoon

5km 3 miles

Tuvalu troubles: Predicted sea level rise by year 2100: 2m

Highest point on land: 4.6m

Current sea level


*Established 1971


Sources: Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, The Guardian, UN 
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