Kiribati
Independent and Sovereign Republic of Kiribati
- Region
- Oceania · Micronesia
- Capital
- South Tarawa
- Population
- 136,488 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currencies
- Australian dollar (AUD), Kiribati dollar (KID)
- Official languages
- English, Gilbertese
- Spoken languages
- Gilbertese, English (official)
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 811 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- IMF
Political stability
87 / 100
Economic stability
59 / 100
Population stability
48 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- fish, coconut oil (2023)
- Key imports
- ships, centrifuges, refined petroleum, rice, raw sugar (2023)
- Natural resources
- phosphate (production discontinued in 1979), coconuts (copra), fish
- Primary route
- Feeder services to Guam and Asian hubs
- Secondary route
- Transpacific connections to the U.S. West Coast
The xin.bz view
- Kiribati sits on the wetter central-equatorial side of the El Niño split — more rainfall to capture, and shifting tuna habitat that can move vessel-day demand and licensing revenue into its EEZ.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Redrawing the Pacific's Water and Fishery Map — Just as Oceania Becomes More Valuable to Global Food, Energy and Critical-Mineral Supply
Australia's 28M t wheat crop and El Niño fire signature, Pacific islands splitting into dry west and wet center, tuna revenue moving between EEZs, New Zealand's west–east water divide, and Australian LNG and rare earths gaining strategic value.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.