The entire country has a population of only about 9,000. And because 6,000 or 7,000 of its citizens work overseas, mostly in Nauru and Fiji, and the people remaining are spread out over the nation's nine islands, the population on each island is quite scanty.
因為吐瓦魯全國只有九千人左右，而且其中六、七千人到海外工作，以在諾魯、斐濟的較多，而留下來的人又則分佈在九個島上，所以各島人口都寥寥可數。